Escaped Flying Pig Recovered



A signature Pink Floyd giant inflatable pig escaped its tether and flew away during the Coachella music festival last weekend.

Former Pink Floyd star Waters said “that’s my pig” as it drifted away during Sunday’s gig.

Coachella spokeswoman Marcee Rondan said: “It wasn’t really supposed to happen that way.”

The pig was tethered to the ground with ropes and floated away as Waters was playing one of the versions of Pink Floyd song Pigs.

The tattered pig came to ground in the driveways of two families in La Quinta, California. The families will split a $10,000 reward offered by Coachella organizers. They will also share four life tickets to the annual music festival. Link -via Digg


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Posted on April 30, 2008 at 7:59 am by Miss Cellania
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12 comments to "Escaped Flying Pig Recovered"

  • DanO
    April 30th, 2008 at 8:14 am

    anyone else think of that simpsons episode where the giant inflatable pig gets shot into homer’s belly?

  • SenorMysterioso
    April 30th, 2008 at 9:37 am

    $10k and lifetime tickets to Coachella just for having a pig crash in your yard - Hell yeah!

    The pig is an iconic piece of rock memorabilia, they could have tried to sell it for more I guess, though, from reading the story it sounds like it was pretty trashed. Then again just because they found it does not make it theirs to sell. Im not sure why Coachella would offer such a large reward for this pig. I think Waters has a habit of letting them lose.

  • otterly
    April 30th, 2008 at 9:51 am

    Luckily it was the Piggy, because if it was the Headmaster or Mother that landed on their driveway, the kids would have been permanently traumatized.

  • Rich
    April 30th, 2008 at 10:13 am

    Oh thank goodness the massive inflatable pig was found… I’d hate to think it was still lurking in the skies.

  • Emily M
    April 30th, 2008 at 10:54 am

    DanO :

    Yeah I totally thought of that episode as well!

  • SenorMysterioso
    April 30th, 2008 at 11:30 am

    That is one of the episodes that everyone remembers.

    “Homer Simpson ruins my pig, Cypress Hill steals my orchestra, and now Sonic Youth is in my cooler. Get out of there, you kids!”

    “Billy Corrigan, Smashing Pumpkins.”
    “Homer Simpson, smiling politely.”

    That pig was a reference to Pink Floyd’s pigs, I think Frampton got it in a Pink Floyd yard sale

  • sam
    April 30th, 2008 at 11:39 am

    That’s no way to talk about a priest! Oh wait - is this a different story?

  • Homer J. Simpson
    April 30th, 2008 at 12:05 pm

    Didn’t something like this happen on that episode of The Simpsons from about ten years ago that was set at Lollapalooza?

  • Jaime Pacheco
    April 30th, 2008 at 2:20 pm

    here in chile , they release the pig

  • Christophe
    April 30th, 2008 at 2:25 pm

    Dang! Pigs are flying now? Now I can get all the things that I was promised when the pigs would be flying!

  • Rich
    April 30th, 2008 at 3:32 pm

    I think it was on this here internet thing that I once read: “With enough velocity… anything can fly.”

  • BMnkyStar
    May 1st, 2008 at 3:24 pm

    I was at that show, and everyone thought of the Simpson’s episode…including Roger Waters!

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