In the for me strange Danish tradition of embracing American holidays, in many towns pumpkins have out around town for a Halloween spirit.
For the town of Silkeborg that did not turn out so well as several 100 of those pumpkins have been ruined last night, most likely by a drunk dumb ass.
About half of the 900 pumpkins put out have been destroyed.
So today a major clean up effort have been under way
Personally think that it is a stupid tradition for Danes to celebrate halloweeen like that, if anything we should celebrate the true Wilhelm Tell day,,,,, cuz the Swiss tale of a man forced to shoot a apple of his kids head, that story most likely have its roots in Viking Denmark,.
Saxo tell that a man named Palnatoke who was forced by the king Harald Bluetooth to shoot a apple of his kids head to prove he was such a good shot as he was bragging about, so Palnatoke took out 2 arrows and with the first one shot the apple on his kids head, the king then asked what the 2 arrow was for, and Palnatoke sad that was for the king if he had killed his kid.
Palnatoke was later the guy that killed the same king by cowardly shooting him in the back at a place called Kalø vig in the year 987, so this story proceed the Wilhelm Tell story which date to the 1300 century.
Palnatoke himself probably died in 1002 in what is called England today, though some stories also say he might be buried near Odense in Denmark,,,,, the Danish Writer HC Andersen also wrote a story on this at the age of 22.
So yeah. No reasons for Danes to embrace traditions of some far away newbie country, we have plenty of our own tradition and history we could and should celebrate.