Apr 30, 2008 06:32 am I love it when artists think most people actually give a crap about their political statements.
Still, that is kinda funny.
huge inflatable obama pig floats away from coachella during pink floyd set
Posted on Apr 30, 2008 02:47 am
fortymile
Member Since: Jan 18, 2003
www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,353245,00.html
INDIO, Calif. — Have you seen this pig? It's huge, inflatable, features the word "Obama" and it has lost its way in the California desert.
Organizers for the Coachella music festival announced Monday that the gigantic blowup swine, released into the night sky during Roger Waters' headlining set Sunday, was still out there — and they want it back.
The festival is offering a $10,000 reward plus four Coachella tickets for life for the safe return of the pig, according to spokeswoman Marcee Rondan.
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," Rondan told The Associated Press.
As for safety concerns, Rondan speculated, "Because it's inflatable, as it loses air it becomes less and less dangerous."
She did not know how much the blowup animal weighed.
As of Tuesday, Rondan said, the festival had not been able to contact Waters, the Pink Floyd co-founder and songwriting mastermind behind albums such as "Animals" and "The Dark Side of the Moon."
The pig displays the words "Don't be led to the slaughter" and a cartoon of Uncle Sam holding two bloody cleavers. The other side reads "Fear builds walls" and the underside reads "Obama" with a checked ballot box for U.S. Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama.
Rogers, who told the crowd "that's my pig" as it drifted off into the night, closed out the three-day festival.
Pink Floyd shows have used blowup pigs throughout the years. Rondan called Sunday's ' "the same prototype" as past pigs.
"People are putting search teams together to find this pig," Rondan said. "But it may float in the night sky, never to be seen again."
Anyone with information on the pig should e-mail [email protected].
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Apr 30, 2008 06:32 am I love it when artists think most people actually give a crap about their political statements.
Still, that is kinda funny.
Apr 30, 2008 07:28 am yeah it's just surreal. for all the crazy bad stuff that happens in the world, there's a story like this to balance it out.
Apr 30, 2008 07:28 am it'll probably be found in a couple weeks... having killed a buffalo as it landed.
hope the FAA is looking at charges.
Apr 30, 2008 07:43 am if this thing gets sucked into a jet engine at altitude, obama will probably be blamed for this too. i can see it on hannity now. that hannity radio announcer guy that sounds like a gravely-voiced shirtless guy drinking beer in a garage: 'find out what obama's saying about his giant killer pig. you won't believe the shocking details.'
then hannity'll be all like 'but senator, your name is ON the pig. is that not your pig? answer the question, senator. ah ah, no don't change the subject, is that or is that not your name on the pig, the pig which brought down an airliner'
and then michael savage will somehow find a way to turn this into a screaming rant about obama, democrats, pork, religion, and the latest restaurant that pissed him off. which will be the dems' fault.
Apr 30, 2008 07:47 am Rev Wright will say it's karma for him turning his back on his peeps.
You are right tho, the media is all about Obama distancing himself and Wright being pissed...funny stuff. Good shout forty.
Apr 30, 2008 07:49 am ba hahah.
don't worry i'm not turning political in this thread. this is about pigs. fun to imagine the above stuff, tho
Apr 30, 2008 08:50 am We need to quickly make a baloon of Commander Hillary on Broom One to go shoot that pig down!
Apr 30, 2008 08:53 am hahahahahahahahahaha
Houston, we have a beotch.
Apr 30, 2008 09:00 am 
Yes and there I was, barrel rolling dodging pig farts, risking my very life to save my country from this....this... pig!
Apr 30, 2008 09:32 am I so much wish I had some drawing abilities. I can just see Bill on the back of the broom peddling like hell with a peddal driven fan at the rear of the broom, with Hillary chucking darning needles at the O-Bomber Pig.
Apr 30, 2008 10:19 am They really need to figure out a way to keep that thing under control - lol
I remember it getting away from them in London as well. Caused a bit of kaos.
There are a couple of shots of the pig in this video I made after seeing Roger Waters.
Apr 30, 2008 10:22 am I guess we can't use the saying "when pigs fly" any more. Tragic end of an era.
May 01, 2008 02:43 pm A little trivia:
In 1976 I went a school trip to Battersea Power Station. We learned all about how coal was ground up and blown into furnaces to power the turbines to generate the tousands of watts of electricity (only one half of the station was in operation at the time as they had discovered blue asbestos in the other half..If you study the Animals cover you can see only two of the four chimneys producing smoke). When we got outside (it was a long tour and a big building) we came across a crew with a huge inflatable pig. They were close to launching it. It was a couple of months later that we all saw what the big inflatable pig was all about.
Years later I had an apartment at the top of a hill and the view from my bedroom window looked like the album cover (without the pig, and from the opposite side - i.e. not the river side).
May 01, 2008 02:46 pm en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_Floyd_pigs
Seems like they have problems keeping these pigs under control.
May 01, 2008 02:53 pm Wow, funny read...and fans tore one pig apart on my birthday. ha!
May 01, 2008 03:14 pm Cool story TC! Update: looks like they found the pig. Scraps of it anyways. Twas found a couple of neighbors yards. They get to split the 10 G's
May 03, 2008 10:38 pm Yep, I was at one of the shows back then with the original pig. Made for some very interesting visuals mixed with the light show back then. Those of you that can imagine the influence that lended to the visual will know exactly what I mean.
Not sure but I believe my son Robbin was there. I'll be calling him tomorrow to find out if he was or not.
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