Residents use inflatable rubber duck to ride to the shops after rain flooded roads

Amusing footage shows two lads using an inflatable yellow duck to reach the shops after their road was flooded.

Kampanat Thernsaket and his friend, Bank, were stranded when heavy rains caused the deluge in Pattaya, eastern Thailand on July 7.

However, their inflatable rubber duck proved useful in the knee-deep water because they were able to ride to the local corner shop.

They also gave free rides to people who did not want their legs to get wet in the dirty water.

Bank, a chef, said: "This might be the way we live our new-normal life.

Everyone should get themselves a giant floating animal.

It is fun and useful at the same time." Thailand's monsoon rainy season lasts from May to late September.

There are regular thunderstorms and heavy rain, which often leads to flash floods as the country's underdeveloped and under-invested infrastructure struggles to cope with the deluge.