Long live the Pig. The Pig is dead. Thrashed, torn and tattered, the giant inflatable pig which escaped from a Roger Waters concert at the weekend crashed to its death in a La Quiinta driveway.

The pig, as wide as two buses, was found splattered all over a couple of driveways in the northern California town. Unsure as to what they had at first, the families were later mind blown to discover the paraporker was worth a cool $10,000, That's the reward offered by the Coachella music festival, the coop from which the pig flew.

This version of the iconic pig carried the image of a ticked ballot box for US presidential hopeful Barack Obama on its underbelly. The hams bore the slogans "fear builds walls" and "don't be led to the slaughter", with a cartoon of Uncle Sam holding two meat cleavers.

Showing impeccable timing of Spinal Tap-ish proportions, the porker cast off its tethers and went for freedom just as former Pink Floyd star Waters had kicked into PF's "Pigs"

"That's my pig" , Waters mused as it rose into the California night during Sunday's gig in California.This is said to be the only inflatable pig of the many PInk Floyd has employed over the years to have gone over the wall.

Tall as a two-storey house and wide as two school buses, the pig was being led from lines held on the ground Sunday as Waters played a version of "Pigs" when eyewitnesses say it just lifted up and floated away.

Organizers of the festival had put together search teams and calculated possible trajectories for the pig but had also accepted the fact it might never bee seen again.

No word yet as to Waters's reaction to the finding of his pig in pieces and Coachella can't be doing cartwheels after issuing a statement assuring us things weren't supposed to happen like that.

The finding families however were delighted with the way thing turned out. After all, all, it's not everyday that pigs fly and ten grand falls out of the sky.