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It all happened on November 20, 1965.
One evening, many people from the small town of Aarschot where a little shocked when that evening there town was on the tv in a program called Echo, a popular television program in the 60's of the BRT (now VRT), watched.
She laughed it off when she saw the images in which 4 council workers played the leading role.
That was Albert Jansens, a skilled town laborer with experience, usually as a foreman appeared, Victor Van Beeck, across Aarschot known as the Fikkele, an tempery worker, Fernand Van De Ven, a city worker and Roger Van De Ven, the son of Fernand .
The local cameraman and photographer Charlie Laureys was in the early morning in search of spicy pictures for the famous Echo program. He received the four men in holes and from the car he was able to visualize them.
The working team tried in the biting cold of a subsidence in the road to the Bone herkasseien District. That the harsh winter weather the men played tricks was evident in the reportage: a first squeezed with great difficulty a cobblestone from the ground, a second threw him a lot and the two others insisted on watching. After a few cobblestones was paused. Then the workers remained in the half-broken open street in front of him staring.
The accompanying song "If I ever have another five minutes ..." Louis Neefs gave an extra dimension to the scene. Aarschot was thanks to those images known throughout Flanders.
After doing the Aarschottenaren the cheerful spectacle several times over in skits and plays.
The four workers were given their own statue in 1999 at the Bone Area (Leuvensestraat). The students from the sculpture class of the Academy Aarschotse made ​​under the direction of sculptor-teacher Roland Rens

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Legendarisch!

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In die tijd hebben ze de vakbonden uitgevonden ;o)

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