I was looking at Finnish municipalities’ coats of arms and found that some of them are more … 𝒃𝒂𝒅𝒂𝒔𝒔 … than others. Here’s my (personal) list of winners:

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  2. Other badass coats of arms include (in no particular order):

    * [Nokia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia,_Finland): “we’re going to bite Ericsson in the butt!”
    * [Tohmajärvi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tohmaj%C3%A4rvi): ”still hot from forging the Sampo”
    * [Harjavalta](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harjavalta): “lightning and thunder!”
    * [Korpo](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korpo): “that’s just my cock when he’s drunk!”
    * [Laihia](https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laihia): “licking the cone, after I was licking the mushroom”

  6. One of my favourites is the old coat of arms of Alavus. Too bad they changed it whe the municipality of Töysä was merged into Alavus.

  8. Toholampi CoA is depicting signal fires, which is what Toho or Tohto means in ancient Finnish. Lampi is a small lake or a regular size pond. I live in the next county, Kokkola, that also has fire theme in the CoA but it is a burning barrel of tar, which is what we used to export, being third largest export harbor in Finland (not it is fifth largest). Toholampi produced a lot of that tar. Almost half of the towns folk moved to USA at the turn of the century, has not grown in about hundreds years..

  15. That horse is the horse of the death riding the horse.
    In other words it’s death horse of death, being death for horses.
    Where death itself comes for humans this horse comes for horses.
    Even wears big black cloack too.

  20. Alavus used to have a cool one. A bear running away with a flaming wooden barrel. After joining with Töysä, the boring burial mound of Töysä was taken as the coat of arms.

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