Forklift driver wears bikini for charity

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- 24 Feb 2005 ( #197 ) - Palmerston North, New Zealand
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Forklift driver Anthony Ohlson in his hot pink bikini.
Forklift driver Anthony Ohlson in his hot pink bikini.
A forklift driver wore a hot pink bikini to work and raised nearly NZD1000 (USD730) for the New Zealand Cancer Society's upcoming Relay for Life fundraiser.

Anthony Ohlson, 33, who stands 1.93 metres in his steel-capped safety boots and weighs 137kg, donned a pink tinsel wig, pink bikini and boy-leg bikini bottoms to go to his workplace, Melody's New World.

His workmates teased him but dug deep to donate as did New World's supply companies.

Ohlson said he did it for his workmate John Sissons who died from cancer last month.

"He found out (and) three weeks later he was gone," Ohlson said.

"It's for a good cause. Everyone's been touched by someone who has had cancer, everyone's lost somebody to it."
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