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 WENN reports that organisers of last weekend's (25-27Apr08) Coachella Festival were
forced to go litter picking through the streets and gardens of Indio,
California on Tuesday (29Apr08) thanks to ROGER WATERS and BARACK OBAMA.
The former Pink Floyd rocker reportedly hired a plane to drop thousands
of tiny flyers urging locals and festivalgoers to vote for U.S.
presidential hopeful Obama before his festival-closing set on Sunday
(27Apr08) night.
But the stunt caused headaches for people who woke up on Monday (28Apr08) to find their gardens strewn with paper.
Palm Desert police relayed all the complaints they received to festival
bosses, who quickly gathered a litter team together and set about
cleaning up Waters' mess.
Starpulse previously reported: When things go bad for a huge inflatable pig, don't expect it to be
pretty. 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.
Two 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. The two
couples will split the cash reward, Fold said.
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.
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