Pigs in Pieces

Okay, so, Roger Waters is on stage at the Coachella festival, see? He's performing "Pigs (Three Different Ones)" from Pink Floyd's Animals album, whose cover featured a pig floating in the air over a power plant.

As Waters performs, a large (I mean LARGE, like the size of a two-story house) helium-filled pig, floats above. And floats and floats and floats. And then it's gone.

"It wasn't really supposed to happen that way," a Coachella spokeswoman explained as she offered lifetime festival passes and $10,000 cash for the pig's capture and safe return.

Well, they found the pig. In pieces, in neighboring residential lots a few miles from the festival site in the California desert. Two plastic heaps. "That's definitely our pig," claimed the show's producer (as if he was afraid it might be mistaken for someone else's giant floating pig.)

Like the song says, "Big man, pig man, ha ha, charade you are ..."

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