Roger Waters’ pig…
has been found.
The remains of Roger Waters’ political pig have been found in California – three days after the animal flew away during the Coachella Festival.
Pieces of the inflatable pig, which featured a pro-Barack Obama message, were found by two families on their driveways in La Quinta.
It’s understood that the $10,000 reward put forward by organisers will be split between the two households.
The pig, which was the width of two double-decker buses, escaped from its ties as Waters played Pink Floyd’s ‘Pigs’ during his headlining performance at the festival (April 27th).
In addition to the financial reward, the families will receive four life long tickets to the Coachella Festival.
According to Wikipedia the pigs have a history of escaping.
The original Pink Floyd pig was designed by Roger Waters and built in December 1976 in preparation for shooting the cover of the Animals album. Plans were made to fly the forty-foot, helium-filled balloon over Battersea Power Station on the first day’s photo-shoot, with a marksman prepared to shoot the pig down if it broke free. However, the pig was not launched.
On the second day, the marksman wasn’t present because no one had told him to return, and 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….
The pig also went astray whilst suspended from the ceiling of the Pete Maravich Assembly Center in Baton Rouge Louisiana in 1977[citation needed]. It ran back and forth over the audience during the performance on some sort of track, and at the end of its travels across the arena struck a fan in the head as it turned to go back toward the stage….
In the two post-Waters tours, the pig was used many times; but two of the pigs were lost, both during the A Momentary Lapse of Reason tours:
* One 12-meter pig being used at a record company function on January 28, 1988 broke free before a concert[citation needed].
* On May 6, 1988 one of the band’s larger pigs descended towards the crowd and was ripped apart by fans during a concert in Foxboro, Massachusetts
Somebody should stop Waters and Pink Floyd. Clearly these pigs are not happy with being used as political footballs (pigskins), and forced in to performance. Where is PETA on this?
Where is the outrage?
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