Pink Floyd Giant Pig Lost – Reward Offered

Water’s giant inflatable Pig escapes and flies somewhere in California‘ desert

Pink Floyd legend Roger Waters closed his Coachella music fest set with the release of the equally famous, trademark giant inflatable pig but this one flew away! Now the question is…Did a school bus-sized inflatable pig land on your backyard?

Coachella organizers are offering $10,000 and four lifetime passes to anyone who returns their pig. The pig balloon was released during Roger Water’s performance on Sunday at the Coachella festival. The pig was covered with graffiti from famous street artist, Slick.

The graffiti had slogans that read: “Don’t be led to the slaughter,” “No Blood for Oil”, and even included Obama’s name with check box next to it.

To collect the bounty, please contact lostpig@coachella.com.

Wesley Snipes Sentenced to Three Years

Snipes, famous for his tax protest stance and “Blade” franchise, paying the price

The Beatles said “Tax man don’t take it all” and the IRS wanted $18.5 million for back taxes from action star and tax protester Wesley Snipes. After a trial over these affairs, they are now taking three years of freedom and trying to send him to prison, pending his expected appeal.

On Thursday, he was sentenced to the maximum three-year sentence for not filing tax returns.

But judging by the sentence, his pleas for leniency – and the thirty-odd character references from such Hollywood luminaries as Woody Harrelson and Denzel Washington (’Wesley is like a tree - a mighty oak’, the latter rather curiously suggested) – have clearly fallen on deaf ears. Snipes’ lawyers are complaining that it’s unfair for the courts to make an example of him just because he’s famous (’Mr. Snipes was sentenced because he’s Mr. Snipes,’ one said, which seems unarguable on a number of levels), but that’s obviously the plan here.

Prosecutors had requested the sentence, one year for each of Snipes’s convictions, saying the star of Blade 3 and Demolition Man had “engaged a campaign of criminal tax conduct, combining brazen defiance with insidious concealment”, telling the US District

Rock stars are usually not in this situation, for obvious reasons

Rockett, partner of Bret Michaels, arrested for rape. Excuse us, rock stars are usually not in this situation, for obvious reasons

Rikki Rockett, drummer for 80’s hairband Poison, was arrested for rape this week in Los Angeles after getting off a flight from New Zealand. Rockett was held on a rape warrant stemming from Neshoba County, Missisippi.

Rockett - real name Richard Ream - was held after a woman filed a complaint claiming she had been raped at a casino in Neshoba, Mississippi.

A police spokesperson said prosecutors were deciding whether the star would be sent back to Mississippi.

The 46-year-old musician, who was unavailable for comment, has been released from police custody.

The band, who are best known for releasing the song Talk Dirty to Me, was founded in the 1980s by Rockett and singer Bret Michaels.

Media reports from TMZ say the the warrant stems from an incident that occurred on September 23, 2007 at a casino in Mississippi. TMZ says Rockett was released in Los Angeles because Mississippi law enforcement decided not to extradite him, pending official charges from the Neshoba County district attorney. Neither law enforcement nor Rockett have yet issued any official statement on the matter.