[Video] Sơn La Children Use Highway Water Drain As Water Slide

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October 6, 2014

Highway 6 is a busy truck route connecting Hà Nội and Sơn La. But when it rains, local children take to the slippery, moss-lined water drains along its side, creating an impromptu water slide.

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We’ll file this in the “fun-but-fundamentally-bad-idea” drawer.

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