A local YouTuber took advantage of last week's snowstorm, which cleared downtown streets of parked cars and traffic, to fulfill a quirky dream: sledding in a bed towed behind a pickup truck.
Sitting in the middle of a full-size bed, each leg of which was nailed to a saucer-shaped sled, Tanner Charles Schaaf bed-sledded past the Guthrie Theater and U.S. Bank Stadium, then posted a video to Twitter on Friday. The comfy ride was complete with a mattress, blankets, pillows and two matching nightstands with a working lamp.
Schaaf turns out to be only one of a handful of Minnesotans who took to the streets during the snowstorm. Another opportunist was caught on camera car-skiing through downtown Shakopee.
Schaaf, who grew up in Kingston, Minn., has done plenty of engine-aided sledding in his time.
"I've done sledding attached to the back of a car and did snowboarding [also attached to the back of a vehicle] with friends," he said. "With this historic snowstorm, I wanted to do something unique and something I've never seen before."
Schaaf bought the bed frame, mattress and the nightstand on Facebook Marketplace and found a matching nightstand at a thrift store. He and his friends had just a day and a half to make the device ahead of the storm.
"We nailed in four saucer sleds on the bottom of this bed and prayed it would work," he said.
Schaaf and crew took steps to ensure he wouldn't be in danger by testing the bed-sled in advance and making sure it would stop when the vehicle stopped. With the snow emergency in place, they weren't concerned about having to dodge parked cars during the midnight run.
