Times are hard and money is short, especially in Africa. So it's not uncommon to see the impoverished make compromises and come up with some ingenious solutions. How's this for a wheelchair...

Wheelchair spotted in Kopanong Hospital, Vereeniging, South Africa
Wheelchair spotted in Kopanong Hospital, Vereeniging, South Africa

Genius!!! Now that is called taking full advantage of the resources at hand. That chair could have landed in landfill and taken 4 bazillion years to decompose. Now it's helping someone get around. The sad part is this was spotted in a government hospital in South Africa.

Thanks for the photo mum.