MACON, Ga. — Danny Outlaw prepares for his annual New Year's Eve party. This year, he brought in a crane to help ring in 2020.
"We're going to have him about 60 foot in the air and lower him down at midnight," Outlaw said.
Outlaw created a personalized ball drop right in the back yard, but it's not traditional.
"It relates to who I am. So, I do a lot of barbecuing, so let's do a hog," Outlaw said.
During his 40 years of cooking barbecue, it only seemed fitting to drop one down for the new decade.
"I'm well known for cooking a lot of hog, so I said, 'You know what? I've got this hog on hand I'm going to take advantage of it'," Outlaw said.
Outlaw wrapped strings of lights onto an iron hog before it went up in the sky.
"We'll lower him down with our ropes. We'll have him all lit up with drop cords hanging down. It'll be beautiful hanging up in the sky tonight," Outlaw said.
Party goers agree -- it's not something you see everyday.
"Nobody else has one. We're it. We're the first," Don McWhorter said.
Outlaw says he plans on making this a tradition every year.
"It's something like they would do in New Orleans, or New York, or whatever. It's the first in Macon," McWhorter said.
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