According to an AP report, tattered halves of Roger Water’s beloved inflatable pig have been found by a two families in their yards after it was last seen floating off during Waters' Sunday evening Coachella set. Susan Stolz of La Quinta, California found the plastic tattered remains in her driveway on Monday. She had no clue what it was and thus didn’t reach out to festival organizers till she caught news of the missing 40-foot, helium-filled balloon story yesterday in the Desert Sun Newspaper.
"My kids are going to think I'm so cool," Stolz said.
Judy Rimmer, who lives in Stolz' neighborhood, also found a piece of the liberal pig which had things like "Don't be led to the slaughter," "Fear builds walls" and "Obama" scribbled all over it on a plant in her frontyard.
She and Rimmer will split the $10,000 bounty and 4 free ticket to Coachella for life offered by festival organizers.
Waters conceptualized the pig originally for Pink Floyd's tour in support of the 1977 album Animals, which featured the song 'Pigs' and 'Pigs on the Wing.' Waters has been lugging the hog with him on his “Dark Side of The Moon” tour for the last 2 years.
This isn’t the first time Waters has gone on a hog chase. In 1977 during a photo shoot for Animals cover art, which depicts the pig between two of London’s Battersea Power Station chimneys, it floated away. According to Wikipedia “…the pig broke free due to a strong gust of wind (gaining a lot of press coverage). It disappeared from sight within five minutes, and was spotted by airline pilots at forty thousand feet in the air. Flights at Heathrow Airport were cancelled as the huge inflatable pig flew through the path of aircraft, eastwards from Britain, over the English Channel, finally landing on a rural farm in Kent that night.”
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hmm ... so they're saying pigs CAN fly??!! LOL
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Actually, there have been a great many pigs that gracing our protected airspace over the last couple of years. Generally, Roger Waters lets the pigs loose at open-air shows. A couple of years ago, he let it loose at the of three nights at the Hollywood Bowl. He was threatened with fines the next day by the FAA because the giant "airship" was disrupting airline landing patterns in the area. Hence, no more flying pigs in L.A., which was a shame because no one, and I mean NO ONE will forget the sight of the pig spiraling slowly into the night toward the full moon! However, the next spring in Irvine, Roger again released his pig, and on this very still evening, the thing went straight up and was still visible 10 minutes into the intermission. Thanks also to the the stage crew that kept the spotlights focused on the pig long after the band had left the stage. I know that some of the outdoor shows on the east coast featured run-away pigs, too. I'm not sure the logistics will allow for any more flying pigs on this tour, but if there was any way he could land one in a certain farm in Crawford, TX..........
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thanks for all the info. i guess it was a gimmick. weird that they woudl offer up 10,000 for it....
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Haha! Now I can sleep at night.
~Roxy
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I too release my pig.
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The 1976 publicity stunt was holed by the Sex Pistols infamous Gruny TV appearance the same day. The next day the papers were full of John and the boys and extremely little aout the pig. Apparently Waters was furious.