I posted an entry about the disappearing floating pig from Coachella. A reward was being offered for its return. Unfortunately, it looks like it's not intact. Pieces of it are being found all over.
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Residents Find More Pieces Of Coachella Helium Pig
A helium-filled swine, released into the night sky during Roger Waters' headlining set Sunday at the Coachella music festival in the Southern California desert, has been found in pieces.
More remains of the inflatable pig were found in the same La Quinta country club where other pieces were found, organizers said Friday.
A small portion of the pig splashed down in John and Patti Fosmire's Hideaway Country Club pool a couple of blocks away from where two larger pig pieces landed and were found Monday, according to festival spokeswoman Marcee Rondan, who said organizers had not yet verified the authenticity of the inflatable remains.
The Fosmires told The Desert Sun's Web site, mydesert.com, that their pool man fished a "towel-sized" portion of the pig out on Monday and placed it by their pool equipment.
"We don't know what to do with it," Patti Fosmire told the newspaper. "We just thought it was funny."
Two other couples found tattered halves of the pig in their yards, a few miles from the festival grounds.
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.
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.
Posted by Valkyre at May 3, 2008 07:16 AM