Check out the wheels on these boards. Plastic desk chair wheels! May want to invest in the coffin as an accessory, seeing how you'll need it!
Posted on 04/09/2021 10:39:46 PM PDT by nickcarraway
From a final resting place for the dead to a gnarly way to land a trick, a Thai coffin-maker is affixing Buddhist emblems to the dismantled walls of his caskets, and transforming them into skateboards.
As the popularity of board sports exploded in Thailand, and the price of a skateboard skyrocketed, Anusorn Yungyearn decided to breathe new life into some of the wooden caskets he had lying around his Bangkok workshop.
"I want to give kids who don't really have much chance in life an opportunity to skate," said the 30-year-old. "I also don't want them to ask their parents to buy one for them since the cost of it is really high."
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Cool story.
Thais discovering Yankee ingenuity ?
Check out the wheels on these boards. Plastic desk chair wheels! May want to invest in the coffin as an accessory, seeing how you'll need it!
How long before they start recycling used ones?
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