Roger Waters' pig floated away at Coachella...sorry if this is old news

Delivered_Wings
Delivered_Wings Posts: 123
edited May 2008 in Other Music
The writer must have had a ball writing this article, its too funny:

http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/Music/04/30/music.lostflyingpig.ap/index.html

ROGER WATERS' FLYING PIG FOUND

INDIO, California (AP) -- When things go bad for a huge inflatable pig, don't expect it to be pretty.
pig

The pig, cut loose during Coachella, was found in pieces a few miles away.

A helium-filled swine, released into the night sky during Roger Waters' headlining set Sunday 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 definitely 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 anti-capitalist album "Animals."

Then it just floated away.

"It wasn't really supposed to happen that way. I don't have the details," festival spokeswoman Marcee Rondan said.

The pig displayed the words "Don't be led to the slaughter" and a cartoon of Uncle Sam holding two bloody cleavers. The other side read "Fear builds walls" and the underside read "Obama" with a checked ballot box for Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama.
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  • fuck
    fuck Posts: 4,069
    ha, that's pretty funny, i never heard about that.
  • Joe2TheRevenge
    Joe2TheRevenge Posts: 904
    they found it yesterday
    You can't spell "dumb" without DMB
  • tybird
    tybird Posts: 17,388
    This was in a "Simpsons" episode....but Peter Frampton had bought the pig...it also blew away. :D
    All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a thousand enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warning. Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed.
  • nowayimfaithfull
    nowayimfaithfull Posts: 2,051
    thats funny
    Some people have religion I have Pearl Jam.


    no more shows
  • macci
    macci Posts: 1,057
    There's a good "when pigs fly" joke somewhere in all of this!
    My lips are shaking.......
  • Jeremy1012
    Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    Why doesn't Roger Waters ever fly away? :(
    "I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead, I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim brothers and I learned that pilgrims from every land — every colour, and class, and rank; high officials and the beggar alike — all snored in the same language"
  • Lukin66
    Lukin66 Posts: 3,063
    interesting read....even though he is an arrogant prick :)
    deep, deep blue of the morning
    gets to me every time

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