An undertaker whose request to fill three containers with fuel was refused later returned to the pump with a coffin and its dead occupant, to prove he was not stockpiling diesel.
The incident was shown in a Facebook Live video shared by Preecha, a 48-year-old undertaker at a temple in Chon Buri.
Mr Preecha said he went to a local petrol station and asked staff to fill containers with fuel for use in the crematorium but they refused.
“I told them it was for a cremation, but they wouldn’t allow it,” he said.
Mr Preecha returned the following morning - this time with a dead body in a coffin in the back of a pickup truck, along with three empty 18-litre jerrycans.
During the live broadcast, a pump attendant was seen walking off to talk with the station manager for a few minutes, before returning to say the fuel containers would be filled, as requested.
“This is the first time I’ve had to do something like this,” Mr Preecha said. “I understand they are trying to prevent stockpiling, but we genuinely need the fuel to carry out cremations.”
