“In the future, everyone will be entitled to 15 minutes of world celebrity “, predicted Andy Warhol in the 1960s.
On May 8, 2020, just 5 years ago, the “buoy men” who braved the ban on confinement for a bath at the Almanarre, confirmed the artist’s intuition.
In a few clicks, while the planet was under a bell to fight against the COVVI-19, the old friends went around the screens globe, offering the hyéroise beach unequaled visibility.
“And five years later, we are still told about it almost every day“, laughs Pierre Kaci, the instigator, still amused by his gag.
A bet with his son
“In fact, it’s up to a bet with my son, singer Maxime Cassady. He did The Voice and has thousands of followers on social networks. As we were bored during confinement, I threw the bet to make a video that would make more views than his. This is how it is gone, for a challenge between generations“He explains, revealing five years after behind the scenes of the feat.
In the bubbling stone imagination, the idea of hidden bathers was born in the signaling buoys to offer a sea bath while the first heat makes the confinement more and more painful.
To convince his old friend Erik Thiémé, a figure of the Fun Board Center, to lend himself to the joke was then not difficult. No more than asking a third thief to film the sequence.
“We just wanted to make a little editing with an imaginary whistle and a false chase with the police … a bit like in the gendarmes of Louis de Funès.“
-What the jokes had not anticipated was that reality would join fiction with the intervention of very real police officers who do not taste the joke … and write a PV at 135 euros.
Share endlessly on social networks
Published on Facebook, the images are illico infinitely shared in a great glow of collective laughter. “”We didn’t understand what happened to us. It was madness“, Stone rewinding which sees its joke amuse the media from all over Europe, but also from Australia or from the United States.
In the end even knowing how many views recorded the sequence. “”I should have published it on Youtube, but I put it on Facebook“, Regrets Pierre. Only certainty, the bet with his son is won.
It also allows friends to collect a good sum to help the Hyéroise association an armchair at sea.
“People offered to give money to pay the fine, we did not want but we created a kitty and a company of derivative products in the name of Confineman to help local associations“, Specifies Pierre.
“It was really a nice story, savored Erik Thiémé. We did something funny, it entertained people who could no longer confide and, in the end, it brought money to an association.“
After this incredible episode, one of the buoys – a real relic to put in the networks of networks – has long been exhibited at the Fun Board Center … before mysteriously disappear.
Pierre Kaci preciously keeps the other … crossing your fingers so that you never have to reuse it for a new confinement.
