John Fowler lifts a tattooed pig in The Snake Pit

Title

John Fowler lifts a tattooed pig in The Snake Pit

Description

John Fowler, shirtless, lifts a pig in The Snake Pit. A biker group (The Heathens?), protesting a new law that would require the wearing of helmets, tattooed the pig with angel wings and sent it to a congressman with the message, "When pigs fly." The law went into effect in 1992.

Date

circa 1991

Source

Digital only

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Creator

Michael Greene
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Citation

Michael Greene, “John Fowler lifts a tattooed pig in The Snake Pit,” Topanga Historical Society Digital Archive, accessed November 8, 2026, https://www.topangahistoricalsociety.org/archive/document/2988.