The inflatable multicolored unicorn that is furor and can be very dangerous

A new unicorn-and-multicolored mattress is making a splash on the beaches of England. Social networks have been the driving force behind sales, especially because the icons of British popular culture, participants of "Love Island" – the most popular reality show in the UK – to gamers of the day. English national team. and even the very Paris Hilton posed happily with his new "chick"

But not everything is rosy this way. Authorities and maritime rescue services went to ask the people to use this inflatable only in the pools and not in the sea. Stanbury Piers, executive director of the UK Coastguard Agency, explained why warning : "The conditions of the tide, the wind and any change of weather can bring them past the swimming areas safely," and added: "Please do not use them, do not take them at the seaside. Inflatable structures should only be used in swimming pools, not on the coast, where they can quickly become very funny and potentially fatal. "

Alarms triggered after rescuers did, in just a few hours, 15 rescues at sea. High seas. Several people who ventured into the ocean, perched on their unicorn and were unable to return to shore. The most extreme case is that from an elderly woman who moved to over 400 meters from the coast and entered on "one of the busiest shipping lanes in the world, pleasure boats and commercial boats" and whose have the help of a helicopter.