Planking

As the planking epidemic enters its second week, some tough questions must be asked. Is the Government doing enough to prevent youngsters from lying horizontally on inanimate objects?

Should the Prime Minister use the next COAG meeting to secure sign-off from the States on a national anti-planking strategy? If so, what form should the campaign take?

It’s simply not enough for Julia Gillard to declare herself tough on planking and tough on the causes of planking. Maybe we need a well-funded advertising campaign, backed up with appearances by celebrities in the schools, to drive home some powerful anti-planking messages. Friends don’t let friends drink and plank. Re-think your first plank. Drink. Plank. Bloody idiot.

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Remember the good old days, when lying flat was called sleeping?

Well, now it’s planking – a new craze that makes some people laugh and others seriously cranky.

‘Planking’ is lying face down in a weird location and posting a photo of your exploits online. Check it out on Google Images and you’ll find plankers lying stiff as boards atop basketball hoops, A-frame ladders, supermarket shelves, boom gates and railway tracks.

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There’s a new craze in town, haven’t you heard? Stretch your body across an unlikely object, take a pic of yourself, post it on Facebook, then act like you’ve done something really clever and original.

Don’t fall, though. If you do, you could end up like 20 year old Brisbane man Acton Beale, who is believed to be Australia’s first planking fatality after he fell from the balcony of a Brisbane apartment on the weekend.

Allow us to express our condolences to Beale’s family and friends. Now allow us to explain why planking is the dumbest thing we’ve heard of since train surfing, line dancing and Australian hip hop music.

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