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Liberal_in_LA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-01-11 04:34 PM
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Despite Deaths and Injuries, Internet 'Planking' Fad Continues

Despite Deaths and Injuries, Internet 'Planking' Fad Continues

Planking, the Australian craze of lying face down stiff in often bizarre places for a photo op, claimed another victim when a man was critically injured after being thrown from the roof of a moving car when his planking went bad.

The 20-year-old New South Wales man was in an induced coma after falling head first in Invernell, Channel 9 news reported.

He is still luckier than a Brisbane man who fell to his death from a seventh-floor balcony in a planking stunt on the railings on Sunday.

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"The potential for disaster increases as more and more risks are taken to get the ultimate photo." The obsession started off innocently enough, with plankers targeting landmarks, parked police cars, dishwashers or each other. But they gradually got extreme, with smokestacks, industrial machinery, animals and railway tracks all becoming planking sites.

Despite the accidents, the craze shows no signs of abating.



Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/05/20/despite-deaths-injuries-internet-planking-fad-continues/#ixzz1O3uuMcvn
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tridim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-01-11 04:39 PM
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1. Worst. Fad. Ever.
Seriously, WTF? Lying down is not called planking, it's called lying down. I don't get this at all.
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Liberal_in_LA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-01-11 04:44 PM
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3. it's not just the lying down, its lying down in freaky places
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tridim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-01-11 04:45 PM
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4. It's still just lying down.
And none of those places are "freaky".

I'm sticking with worst fad ever. Worse than parachute pants.
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mimitabby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-01-11 04:43 PM
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2. I think a modicum of common sense could make all the difference
there's lots of funny places to do this which won't result in death.
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hifiguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-01-11 04:50 PM
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5. "Fads" like this make one wonder
how we ever managed to outlast the short-faced bears and sabre-toothed cave tigers. There is a deep strain of teh stoopid in humankind and it seems more common now than ever before.
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kestrel91316 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-01-11 05:38 PM
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11. We don't have to worry about big predatory animals anymore for the most part,
so boneheaded behavior isn't being removed from the gene pool like it used to.
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aikoaiko Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-01-11 04:50 PM
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6. Planking pics make me chuckle.


funny to me.
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Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-01-11 04:51 PM
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7. Oh, I thought they were talking about sex.
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Scuba Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-01-11 04:54 PM
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8. Darwinism. n/t
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gratuitous Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-01-11 05:00 PM
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9. It does seem an effective method for removing defective genetic material
Keep it up, folks! Now, if there was only a way to make tattooing a little more fatal . . .
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City Lights Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-01-11 05:03 PM
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10. I had to do a double-take on that lower pic...thought it was Junior at first.
Looks like something he'd be doing.
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