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Roger Waters' Pig Lost During Coachella Is Found

artist: roger waters date: 05/01/2008 category: general music news

A giant helium-filled pig didn't drift off to hog heaven after it was released into the night sky during Roger Waters' performance at the Coachella music festival. It's been found — in pieces.

Two couples found tattered halves of the inflatable swine in their yards, a few miles from festival grounds in the Southern California desert.

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.

Credits for the info to Yahoo! News.

POSTED: 05/01/2008 - 06:29 am + print this article + mail to a friend
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 comments posted
stevezy :
Roger Waters can't vote in the US election....why throw his weight behind Obama?
POSTED: 05/01/2008 - 09:52 am / quote |
Mithaearon :
So waters lost Geri Halliwell during the concert?
POSTED: 05/01/2008 - 09:55 am / quote |
Metallicam :
Slow day in the press was it?
POSTED: 05/01/2008 - 10:23 am / quote |
atc228 :
stevezy wrote:

Roger Waters can't vote in the US election....why throw his weight behind Obama?


Doesn't he live in NY? I know he's not a citizen, but he can still follow politics and give his opinion. I mean it is his world too...

POSTED: 05/01/2008 - 11:03 am / quote |
Black Hole Sun :
stevezy wrote:

Roger Waters can't vote in the US election....why throw his weight behind Obama?

Did you just answer your own question? He wants Obama to win. He can't vote. So he encourages others.

POSTED: 05/01/2008 - 02:33 pm / quote |
megathrash00 :
Roger Waters is the man.....saw him in concert last year with the dark side of the moon tour....he had a pig that said stuff about bush....it was amazing (the concert and the pig)
POSTED: 05/01/2008 - 07:13 pm / quote |
The_lizard_king :
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."


That was actually sheep, he played. I think keeping that pig would be better than any cash reward though.

POSTED: 05/12/2008 - 08:50 pm / quote |
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