But Phnom Penh has its cyclo - a three-wheeled bicycle with the driver perched on high above the rear wheel, and the passengers in a bucket seat slung between the two front wheels.

VOA: standard.2010.06.14

One belief is that it started when an English stableman committed suicide by hanging himself while standing on a pail,or bucket.

VOA: special.2011.06.05

Like them,he parks his cyclo on the sidewalk each night in a gaggle of other drivers, and sleeps in the bucket seat.

VOA: standard.2010.06.14

"If you happened to be a Taino who lived up in the mountains and you weren't in the sun a lot and maybe your skin was a little lighter, then they threw you in the 'white' bucket."

VOA: standard.2010.04.05