Thai Rath reporters went to investigate in the north eastern province of Roi-Et after a video on TikTok went viral.

 

It featured a pick-up coming out of a soi at some speed.

 

Unfortunately the load on the back - a refrigerated coffin - comes off into the road.

 

Then slids along the tarmac coming to rest outside a grocer's.

 

The driver soon stops but the coffin is too heavy for him and a man comes to help him load it back on.

 

Grocer in the Nam Kham Yai estate Kot Singthong said he was serving a customer in his shop when he heard a loud bang.

 

VIDEO: https://www.thairath.co.th/news/local/northeast/2593805

 

He looked out in the street and saw a coffin hurtling towards him.

 

He got an emplyee to help the pick-up driver get the coffin back on and the driver secured it in place.

 

The post got a lot of attention especially as Kot had said when posting the footage: "Wrong house - don't need a coffin here just yet," along with some hashtags like #coolcoffin.

 

Comment from Thai netizens was rife with a lot of teasing as well as some serious stuff about tying on loads and not causing accidents.

 

Fortunately the coffin was empty and after the incident continued on to a funeral. 

 

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At least the occupant didn't feel anything

 

Remember that patient who fell out of the back of an ambulance on a stretcher and narrowly avoided being run over?

How about using a rope instead of a string to secure the load.

 

Fortunately just a laugh, coffin empty and no one hurt.

But imagine you are behind this sporty pickup driver.

3 minutes ago, Crossy said:

At least the occupant didn't feel anything

Heaven helps it was empty.

Even in Thailand such an indecent transport of a corpse in a coffin (to the temple) is not usual.

It's a procession in walking pace.

It was on wheels anyway. Been better to push it.

The coffin was empty but continued on to a funeral?

51 minutes ago, snoop1130 said:

 ... slids along the tarmac coming to rest outside a grocer's.

I was hoping that it stopped at a pharmacy, then I could have ressurected this old joke ...

 

A funeral procession is going up a steep hill on main street when the door of the hearse flies open and the coffin falls out then speeds down main street into a pharmacy and crashes into the counter. The lids pops open and the deceased says to the astonished pharmacist, "You got anything to stop this coffin ?"

 

1 hour ago, bubblegum said:

The coffin was empty but continued on to a funeral?

Yes. It was surely on the way to a house of a deceased where the funeral procedures just started. The corpse is usually in a simple wooden coffin and will then be kept in this refrigerated "cover" coffin until the cremation (for the poor on day 3). The cremation is done with the wooden coffin.

After the funeral this thing will go back to the shop.

Such a coffin in the house of the deceased.

(a mate died from cancer)