Pink Floyd pig caught

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Pink Floyd's missing giant pig has landed
Wed Apr 30, 2008 4:46pm EDT

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By Syantani Chatterjee

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A giant inflatable pig that went missing from a Southern California music festival at the weekend has been found in tatters in a desert town.

The pig, which has been a signature Pink Floyd stage prop since its appearance on the 1977 cover of "Animals" and the song "Pigs on Wings," broke away from its tethers on Sunday night at Coachella Valley Arts and Music Festival.

The festival organizers offered a $10,000 reward for the two-story inflatable pig belonging to ex-Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters.

Two couples said on Wednesday they had found the shredded plastic remains of the pig outside their homes.

The pig, bearing political slogans and the word "Obama" next to a ticked ballot box for U.S. Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama, was used by Waters during his set at the festival in the desert east of Los Angeles.

Steve Stoltz found a big pile of shredded plastic in his La Quinta, California, driveway early on Monday morning when he went to get his newspaper.

"We didn't even know what it was then, but that's all I hear about now," his wife Susan Stoltz told Reuters.

Her neighbor, Judy Rimmer, found an even bigger pile in her driveway. Since then the neighbors have shared several pork jokes, she said.

"My sons who are in their 20s will think I'm pretty cool," said Susan Stoltz.

At first the couples thought they were victims of a practical joke. But after reading mass media coverage of the missing pig they contacted festival organizers who authenticated the remains.

"They were really anxious to have the pig's remains, but we kept souvenirs," Susan Stoltz said.

Stoltz said the two couples will split the $10,000 reward offered by the festival organizers and will each get four festival tickets for life.

Just thought this was kind of cool.

 

[Shylock]

Oh man, Peter Frampton's gonna be pissed off.

 

[Berzerker]

Pink Floyd and Rush, my two favorite bands

 

[ainwood]

Moderator Action: Article added in.

Please actually post the text of the article; just posting a link is a bit lazy, and most certainly doesn't promote discussion.

 

[Furiey]

That pig has always been on a quest for freedom, it broke free when being photographed over Battersea Power Station for the Animals album cover.

 

[Trajan12]

Roger Waters is an Obama supporter?

Nothing Obama does now can stop me from liking him.

 

[Sofista]

That pig has always been on a quest for freedom, it broke free when being photographed over Battersea Power Station for the Animals album cover.

...and now it reached the Great Sty in the Sky.

 

[MobBoss]

Those people are idiots. I would have put it up for bid on ebay with a minimum bid of 10 grand and watched it take off.

 

[Trajan12]

I'm not sure they could have done that, it's really not their property to sell.

Plus the inaccuracies in that article make me fume.

First, the song is called "Pigs on the Wing" either part 1, 2 or the song "Pigs(Three different ones)".

Second, Roger Waters was not the frontman.

 

[Ecofarm]

Does it really count as "catching" the pig if it is found in shreds on someone's driveway?

More like: Pig found

 

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Moderator Action: Article added in.

Please actually post the text of the article; just posting a link is a bit lazy, and most certainly doesn't promote discussion.

Sorry, never made a post about an article before.

 

[West 36]

Would have loved to be the person driving through the desert seeing that flying by...