Piggy Garbage Can
Knoebels (2025)
Every time I see this garbage can at Knoebels, I'm reminded of something that I used to see at Angela Park when I was very young. For the longest time, I thought that this was the same garbage can from Angela Park, but I found a picture of the old one and realized that they're not the same.
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| Citizen's Voice - Wilkes Barre, PA (May 8, 2017) |
The one that I remembered from Angela Park was called Porky The Paper Eater, and you've got to give a lot of credit to whoever came up with this. They managed to turn a garbage can into popular attraction that is still remembered almost forty years after the park closed.
Porky The Paper Eater was a large square garbage can with a roof that was painted to look like a little cottage with a pig's head poking out of the front window. There was a vacuum hooked up to the inside of the pig's mouth so that it would take garbage right out of your hand. Feeding the pig your garbage also triggered an audio recording of the pig thanking you and munching on whatever you put in its mouth. It was an ingenious idea because kids would pick up garbage off of the ground just so they could feed Porky, but it nearly backfired because if there was no garbage to be found, kids would sometimes take napkins from the food stands that they didn't need just to throw them away by feeding them to Porky.
