Thai undertaker brings corpse to petrol station to prove fuel need
After being denied fuel, a Thai man live-streamed the moment he showed station staff an occupied coffin to prove his urgent need
A Thai undertaker’s extreme mission to prove he was not hoarding fuel went viral over the weekend after he brought a coffin containing a body to a petrol station to convince attendants the extra fuel he needed was for cremation, not black market resale.
But panic buying, hoarding and price-gouging has prompted shortages and daily limits on filling up at many petrol stations across the country.
Perhaps the most radical measure by hard-pressed consumers so far was carried out by an undertaker in Ban Bueng district of Chonburi on Sunday, who live-streamed his desperate bid to convince station attendants that he was not seeking extra supplies to resell on the black market.