Now we’ve seen some cool festivals along the way here at zootpatrol, but I haven’t been this excited about a festival in a while. Take a dead goose, hang it upside down from a wire over water, and you have to hang on the goose until decapitate his head from his body, sounds freakin’ awesome right. “The Day of the Goose”, takes place each September in the northern Spanish seaside village of Lekeitio, near the city of Bilbao. It marks the high point of the week-long San Antolin festival which celebrates the patron saint of this pretty fishing village.

It works like this. A dead goose is suspended from a rope which is stretched across the harbor and held at both ends. A young man is rowed up to the bird, launches himself at it and holds on for dear life. Both ends of the rope are then pulled tight and slackened, which repeatedly propels the goose-decapitator and the bird into the air and then dunks them in the water. To make the job harder, the goose is made slippery by covering it with grease. The idea is to twist or rip the goose’s head off as quickly as possible while not being flown off the goose.

This festival has been going on for over 350 years with only one slight difference from it’s conception. The goose used to be alive when it was suspended which I would expect it to make the task a little bit more difficult. I would love to see this try to fly in America, which it would never because we are a bunch of PETA babies. We can go geese hunting and shoot them in the face with shotguns, no one has a problem with that, but the world would come to an end if I gave a dead goose a headlock for 20 seconds.
In the video below you get to see how wild this event is. Beautiful weather, people diving in the water fully clothed, and then an idiot getting flung 40 feet in the air while holding onto a goose neck and looses his pants (the second guy that goes get’s the head off). BOOKING FLIGHT RIGHT NOW.