Notes from the Crobard regarding the Destroy-Escort TV hoax
All
the facts related in this page are completely invented to add credibility
to the hoax.
How
was the idea of Destroy-Escort born ?
First, we are ourselves looking very much like misfits.
Second we work in the world of the night and show business, it's a very contrasted
world where it's easy to meet people from different worlds. That's how we
end up meeting completely "normal" people despite our very atypical look.
And once, a friend of ours asked us, as a joke because he's himself very yuppie
looking, if we'd like to come to a party at his workplace (he works in a computer
consulting company) to shock his colleagues who see him as a rather quiet
boring guy. That's how it all started. The people at the party actually found
it very amusing, it went very well et the idea seemed crazy to everyone.
After that it became kind of a mess because all kinds of people started inviting
us to all kinds of parties (kinda like when we arrived at a really bourgeois
party once and we didn't known anybody...) but once we realized it wasn't
just a joke we could pull from time to time but that there was almost a need
for it, then we stared actually organizing this thing. That's how other people
joined us, which allowed us to expand our services and thus to to have a private
"launch" party on May 31st 2003.
Types
of the majority of the orders : private parties, bachelor parties
/ weddings, and birthdays.
Biggest
order ever received : 4 punks for a bachelor party, since the guy
who was about to get married had been a punk in his younger days. He seemed
to be talking about it in a nostalgic way fairly regularly so his friends
decided to make him a surprise.
Biggest order ever considered that couldn't
be fulfilled because of infrastructure problems that don't exist anymore
: A group of about ten goths to set the atmosphere at a birthday party. It's
the parents who wanted to rent them for the 16th birthday of their daughter,
but at the time we couldn't fulfill such a huge order, which wouldn't be a
problem for us these days.
Orders
that were refused : In addition to the various joke or bad taste
orders we receive through our web site, and for which it's obvious that the
description of our service was misunderstood and that we therefore systematically
turn down, because our service is first and foremost a friendly and convivial
one, we have also from time to time refused orders that looked suspicious
to us:
- a man who wanted to rent all the models in our catalog, and who seemed to
take the word "escort" too literally.
- a man who wanted to rent one goth and one punk but didn't want to tell us
what he wanted them for, and it was in the suburbia (we work in Paris proper
only)
- impossibility to deliver : some people have asked us for rappers and that's
a community that we don't know very well and we would have had a really hard
time finding people for such roles.
Anecdotes
- bits from phone calls :
- people never complain about our service. They agree to the rules of the
game and even if sometimes we learn that stuff has been broken they never
call us back to complain.
- The raver is the one we rent the least, because they have a bad image in
the medias. The punk is the one we rent the most often, he's really The urban
icon.
- one time we had a guy call us to rent a punk, to "ransack" his apartment
just before it was to be renovated.
Why do people rent from your service? What do they get out of it ? ... you'd have to ask them... But we really can see that people give it a very festive and playful dimension. Maybe it's because it's so out of the ordinary while still only being a calculated risk. It doesn't matter as long as everyone is happy with the result.
Why do some people agree to work for you as escort? What do they get out of it ? Because it's fun! You have to be bit of an extrovert, but it's a way you to stage yourself that can even work as some sort of therapy, to point out to yourself your own exaggerations and exploit them. Also it's likely for the safe change of setting: we know we wouldn't go to such parties if we didn't have a reason like that one. It creates an amusing dissonance but this dissonance is under control and therefore manageable.
All the facts related in this page are completely invented to add credibility to the hoax.