'Planking'

MrTwilliger · **Joined:** May 2008 **Posts:** 1374 **Location:** Hiding

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IT WAS a harmless craze just four days ago.
Kerri-Anne Kennerley opened her television talk show lying balanced, face-down, on the back of a couch. Karl Stefanovic was lying flat on the Today show desk in front of the cameras.
But early yesterday morning, the ''planking'' fad sweeping social networking sites proved fatal. Acton Beale, 20, was positioning himself on a balcony railing seven storeys up in Brisbane when he lost his footing and plunged to his death in the car park below.

http://www.smh.com.au/national/planker- ... 1eod4.html

Planking? Seriously? Has anyone even heard of this yet? What are we, Jenga blocks? :palm:

SM-Count · **Joined:** Jan 2008 **Posts:** 2761 **Location:** /wave

Yeah, should be banned, at least LGL.

CrimsonNuker · **Joined:** Aug 2006 **Posts:** 13791 **Location:**

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/lying-down-game

.curve · **Posted:** Sun May 15, 2011 8:42 pm

....the internet is weird.

The "lying down" game? How bored do you have to be to come up with that.

Also, natural selection at work. I say let them keep trying more dangerous places. Could use to shave off a few of the population.

_Clitrix_ · **Posted:** Mon May 16, 2011 8:14 am

Planking is a simple exercise, to build up your abdominal muscles,
i knew it from exercising alot not too long ago, 1minute of planking, is the equality to 100 sit ups.

OT: I never knew you were australian.

William-CL · **Joined:** Feb 2007 **Posts:** 7363 **Location:** N/A

Standing Up Game.

You heard it from me First folks.

MrTwilliger · **Joined:** May 2008 **Posts:** 1374 **Location:** Hiding

I use to have Australia in my location, but eh.

Back on topic, the more I thought about this today the more the idea appeals to me. Not in a way in which I would want to do it, rather the creativity and sense of being involved in such a concept. I was at working, looking around, creating scenes and places which would just look "cool". I was talking to a guy at work about it and he said that he was participating in a marathon. He sprinted from the start, got a bit of a lead on everyone and just started 'planking' on the spot. Everyone had to run around or over him and hilarity was had. That side of it appeals to me

Mirosuke · **Posted:** Mon May 16, 2011 8:49 am

Not trying to be mean but... what an ass.

Phaedra · **Joined:** May 2009 **Posts:** 730 **Location:** Yes.

Just one question: What's the point? :roll:

Fiction · **Posted:** Mon May 16, 2011 2:23 pm

lol this looks like something the onion would make up. How stupid do you have to be... I say if you're stupid enough to follow a stupid internet craze like this, you prolly deserve to fall off a fcking building. Sorry but the only word coming to my mind when I see this stuff is "dumbass"(Red-70s show)

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LMAO great comment right here:

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The government must do something. We must ban this activity immediately before see more deaths!!

Nanny | State - May 16, 2011, 8:04AM

*BlackFox · **Joined:** Sep 2008 **Posts:** 7923 **Location:**

Completely Farking insane, to say the least.

BuDo · **Joined:** Dec 2008 **Posts:** 4714 **Location:**

It's plank-tastic

dom · **Posted:** Tue May 17, 2011 2:03 am

It's something that people do for fun and should be harmless.

Making this illegal is like making it illegal to use stairs without holding onto the hand rail.

William-CL · **Joined:** Feb 2007 **Posts:** 7363 **Location:** N/A

dom wrote:

It's something that people do for fun and should be harmless.

Making this illegal is like making it illegal to use stairs without holding onto the hand rail.

Point = More people die on stairs than they have from Planking/Laying Down Game. For those that missed that

.curve · **Posted:** Tue May 17, 2011 4:20 am

Blackdragon6 wrote:

dom wrote:

It's something that people do for fun and should be harmless.

Making this illegal is like making it illegal to use stairs without holding onto the hand rail.

Point = More people die on stairs than they have from Planking/Laying Down Game. For those that missed that

Relatively new fad, give it time. If the whole purpose of the "game" is to find more dangerous and exciting spots to "plank," then that doesn't exactly scream safe or smart.

William-CL · **Joined:** Feb 2007 **Posts:** 7363 **Location:** N/A

Yea I spose. I do feel like it should be against Rules in certain places, but Illegal? Not so much.

Fiction · **Posted:** Tue May 17, 2011 6:47 am

lol @ you guys even debating this... This is stupid.. Nuff said. Let the idiots make fools of themselves, if they die in the process -more power to em.

MrTwilliger · **Joined:** May 2008 **Posts:** 1374 **Location:** Hiding

If you make it illegal shouldn't you, in theory, make any extreme sport ever invented illegal? Can you even make it illegal to lie down? -.-

Dimethyltryptamine · **Joined:** Sep 2010 **Posts:** 161 **Location:** Melbourne

The fad is absolutely stupid. I seen a bunch of idiots planking out front of Flinders St Station the other day... I just wanted to pull them up to their feet. They're doing it all over the city, it's embarrassing!

The guy who died in Brisbane, I do not care for. Serves him right. Natural selection at its best.

inky · **Joined:** Nov 2006 **Posts:** 4025 **Location:**

Natural selection at its best.

MrTwilliger · **Joined:** May 2008 **Posts:** 1374 **Location:** Hiding

Just a bit of a bump on this thread, last night (or was it the night before) another planking attempt went wrong. 2 teenagers were attempting a plank on a moving car, one driving the car and the other planking. The boy planking fell off and is in hospital in a critical condition. The driver is facing manslaughter if the boy passes, negligent driving and various other road offences. He may potentially face jail time for it. I will post a link later on when I find one, I saw the story in the TV.

If anything, the recent media attention to 'planking' has only served to spread it's popularity and encourage people to do it. It's so counter-productive -.-

Doron · **Posted:** Thu May 19, 2011 10:24 am

Human stupidity at it's best.

Phaedra · **Joined:** May 2009 **Posts:** 730 **Location:** Yes.

And it all started with a cat...

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