CHIANG MAI - More than 100 hill people in Hot district successfully pulled a fellow resident's pickup truck uphill after it plunged into a valley on its way to pick up cabbage there.
The incident was reported in a post by Facebook user Nchai Xyooj, writing on Monday that more than 100 people of Ban Hmong Doi Kham village joined hands to pull up the pickup truck. It plunged into the valley while it was about 100 metres up a 45-degree hill slope.
Manpower was needed as the soft soil made it impossible for any vehicle to tow the truck uphill.
It had just rained there before a Hmong resident lost control of the pickup truck on a winding and slippery dirt road on the hilly terrain on his way to collect cabbage for sale.
The people took about 30 minutes to pull the truck up to a local dirt road. The truck was heavily damaged. Its roof was nearly flattened. Its windscreen was broken and most of its body was dented. The truck driver was slightly injured.
