Coachella fest crews clean up Obama ads
Coachella Vale Music and Arts Fete organizers and staffers cleaned up in a new style this class, patrolling Indio neighborhoods northwest of the fete web site with brooms and chicken feed bags to accumulate thousands of ticker-tape-size bits of paper that went astray after beingness dropped from an airplane during Roger Waters' headlining operation Dominicus.
An Indio police spokesman said to a greater extent than hundred area residents called in Monday morning time after finding their homes blanketed with 2-by- 1/4 inch pieces of report carriage a check mark next to the call of Sen. Barack Obama, whose Democratic presidential run has said it was unaware of and non involved with the stunt.
"We are working with [Coachella promoter] Goldenvoice, which has utterly been real cooperative," Indio police force spokesman Ben Guitron said. "They took the enterprisingness and said, 'We're a partner in this, and we're expiration to help out and do roughly cleanup. They asked us to refer totally the great unwashed world Health Organization desire aid with cleaning to them."
Guitron said the cloth was distributed without permit from the city or Goldenvoice officials. "Here at the police department, we're also looking for at our legal options, as we're not accustomed to having this type of material distributed over our country by planing machine. . . . It appears at that place hasn't been any permanent wave impairment."
On the bright side, Guitron said the perpetrator was mentation green.
"Our probe has determined that the newspaper is biodegradable," he said.
randy.lewis@latimes.com
