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April 29, 2008
I'll Be Keeping My Eyes Open
An inflatable pig "the size of a school bus" escaped its tether at the Coachella music festival. The owners are offering a reward of $10,000 plus 4 Coachella tickets for it. My fellow hikers know that the Mecca Hills are a magnet for escaped balloons, and it's not far from the concert site to the Mecca Hills, so I expect there's a fair chance that we'll be dragging that thing out of a canyon some time in the next couple of years.
UPDATE: Much to my disappointment, the pig has been recovered in pieces in La Quinta.
Filed under Coachella Valley | permalink | April 29, 2008 at 11:17 AM
Comments
Very unlikely. No wind farms at that end of the valley. The pig would have had to sail upwind for about 20 or 30 miles to get torn up that way, and then float back down to La Quinta.
Much more likely the winds dragged it across rocks in the mountains on the edge of La Quinta.
Posted by: Ron's Log at Apr 30, 2008 8:23:17 PM
No mention in the article of how it ended up in shreds. I wonder if it hit a Wind Farm?
Posted by: Rich S at Apr 30, 2008 7:40:25 PM
