Coachella Pig Is Found
Posted by Beaumont - 05/02/08, 02:05 pm
When things go bad for a huge inflatable pig, don't expect it to be pretty.
A helium-filled swine, released into the night sky during Roger Waters' headlining set Sunday (27 April 2008) at the Coachella music festival, in the Southern California desert, has been found in pieces.
Two couples found tattered halves of the pig in their yards, a few miles from the festival grounds.
Concert organizers had offered a $10,000 reward for the pig's return. On Tuesday, pieces of the plastic carcass were examined.
"That's definately our pig," producer Bill fold said.
Susan Stoltz found a plastic heap in her driveway Monday, but said she didn't know what it was until she read about the missing pig in the "Desert Sun" newspaper.
"My kids are going to think I'm so cool," she said.
Another resident of the same neighborhood, Judy Rimmer, said she found a piece of the pig draped over a front-yard plant.
The two couples will split the cash reward, Fold said.
As tall as a two-story house and as wide as two school buses, the pig was led from lines held on the ground Sunday as Waters played a version of Pink Floyd's "Pigs" from the 1977 album "Animals."
Then it just floated away.
A helium-filled swine, released into the night sky during Roger Waters' headlining set Sunday (27 April 2008) at the Coachella music festival, in the Southern California desert, has been found in pieces.
Two couples found tattered halves of the pig in their yards, a few miles from the festival grounds.
Concert organizers had offered a $10,000 reward for the pig's return. On Tuesday, pieces of the plastic carcass were examined.
"That's definately our pig," producer Bill fold said.
Susan Stoltz found a plastic heap in her driveway Monday, but said she didn't know what it was until she read about the missing pig in the "Desert Sun" newspaper.
"My kids are going to think I'm so cool," she said.
Another resident of the same neighborhood, Judy Rimmer, said she found a piece of the pig draped over a front-yard plant.
The two couples will split the cash reward, Fold said.
As tall as a two-story house and as wide as two school buses, the pig was led from lines held on the ground Sunday as Waters played a version of Pink Floyd's "Pigs" from the 1977 album "Animals."
Then it just floated away.
OH NO, this is way hilalious. Thanks for the laugh. This is so funny; my eldest son and I laughed and laughed!!
Reneefriend
Oh, and the government said it was a weather balloon, right? - I get this thinking for watching too many UFO shows LOL.
patyomy
Do ya think they maybe shot the pig down? For 10,000, I would have given it the old college try! (lol)
ZAZAS