Planking - Anyone ?

[nstg8a]

i dont see the big issue really. obviously some will take it too far, but you get that with any recreational activity.

some light hearted fun for 99% of those involved. but reading some of the facebook comments you would think the participants were child sacrificing devil worshippers or something.

[CJR09]

Originally Posted by Stefan

Plankers!

Not long before we have a Darwin award.

I must must admit I laughed when i first read your post stefan

looks/sounds like humanity just evolved....


but honestly FFS, how many halfwit numbskulls are out there?!?

[TRUBLU4DS]

Just a bit of fun thats all it is.

[Bucknaked]

Do you think these Plankers are short a few planks.

[FGII-XR6]

Originally Posted by TRUBLU4DS

Just a bit of fun thats all it is.

It may seem that way but the reason we have the so called nanny state is when idiots " just having a bit of fun" get killed. this leads to us all being over regulated

[84xespac]

Originally Posted by CJR09

I must must admit I laughed when i first read your post stefan

looks/sounds like humanity just evolved....


but honestly FFS, how many halfwit numbskulls are out there?!?

Lots and lots. I live in a high rise on the Gold Coast surrounded by numerous other high rise appartments. I have lost count of the amount of times I have seen w...... either sitting with legs hanging over balcony rails or even stupider yet climbing from one balcony to their friends on the neighbouring balcony. I watched a guy do it from the 18th floor only a couple of weekends ago. They same sort of moron that "planks" on a balcony would be my guess.

[TRUBLU4DS]

Originally Posted by au3xr6

It may seem that way but the reason we have the so called nanny state is when idiots " just having a bit of fun" get killed. this leads to us all being over regulated

Nanny state, we are now a nanny country my friend,over governed & over policed where fun is now outlawed. We need to stop being lazy Aussies & say to them, enough of this crap.

But just think, plankers probably say we're idiots for spending lots of money on old cars, the government doesn't want them either.

[Franco Cozzo]

Haha, theres a planking australia facebook group:





Crazy people.

[SEZ213]

It would appear that this 'fun' may have cost the life of a 20 year old in Brisbane last night...I doubt this kind of skylarking counts as 'fun' given this news...

[Burnout]

Originally Posted by Big Damo

Haha, theres a planking australia facebook group:Crazy people.

So crazy in fact that one toss pot came of a roof in Brisbane last night & has taken up residence in the morgue.

[stevz]

Originally Posted by Stefan

Plankers!

Not long before we have a Darwin award.

Yep, and a lot sooner than we thought...

http://www.news.com.au/national/fata...-1226056214322

A MAN who plunged to his death from a Brisbane unit balcony was planking, and police fear it will not be the last death due to the new craze.

Planking involves participants lying flat on their stomach in different and sometimes dangerous settings and sharing photographs of their efforts with fellow plankers.

The man, aged in his early 20s, fell from an innercity unit block in Kangeroo Point's Main Street and died at the scene shortly before 4.30am today.

Deputy Commissioner Ross Barnett said the man had been trying to lie on the balcony rail when he fell.

He said the man and another person had been planking in various spots on their way home from a night out.

"He has tragically lost his footing and fallen to the ground below," Mr Barnett said.

"It is what we've been fearing."

The deputy commissioner said he did not know whether it was Australia's first death from the recent craze.

However, he feared it would not be the last as plankers tried to out-do each other in more and more dangerous places.

"Police fear that as planking gains popularity there may be more injuries and, potentially, further deaths," Mr Barnett said.

He warned plankers they would be charged if they tried the fad in dangerous locations. A 20-year-old man was issued with a court appearance notice for trespass when he was found planking on a squad car in Gladstone last week.

"Accepting a risk of injury for yourself is one thing, but the potential is there for others to be injured as a result of your behaviour," he said.

"But no penalty will ever return this young man to his family and friends.

"This is a tragedy and our condolences go to the family."

[TRUBLU4DS]

Very sad if someone died from planking as every death is sad, just like idiots driving cars.

[zdcol71]

Originally Posted by DJR-351

I think we are now starting to see the results of their parents experiments with mind altering substances......

Please don't blame the parents for this!!!
I did some silly things on "mind altering substances" but even at the time, they seemed to have some sort of reasoning behind them. This is just plain pointless!!!

[In Focus]

Originally Posted by Powdered Toast Man

Yep I'm with you GT, I also had to google it and I just dont get it

Agreed. But then I don't get Facebook either.

[hiper]

i think Extreme Ironing is a much better craze..

planking just looks dumb... but watching a scuba diver try to iron a shirt underwater at least has some comedic value.

[fordomatic]

who really cares what people want to do in there spare time. if some bloke wants to plank 80m up and falls off big deal that was his choice, they know the risks. i find it hilarious, i had a look at the facebook group and had a great chuckle to myself.

[MGGT RAA]

Planking? hell yes! Heres my brother and my efforts!

[TRUBLU4DS]

if i see you on Ennis ave i'll jump out & plank ya.

[Polyal]

This is as stupid as chroming IMO...serious who are these people?

I agree its silly that things like this become a "craze", its a sheep mentality. The problem occurs when drunktards give it a crack and the above happens.

When I first heard/read about it I was like WTF, then I got even more angry when I realised that MAINSTREAM media has nothing better to do than talk about it..DH's.

Everyone makes choices, but jesus, why did this get any airtime? It just gave stupid people something else to waste their time with. Media should be ashamed for talking about it, IIRC it was on the front page of the Herald Sun FFS...its a toilet paper establishment but it gets around.

[GS608]

Originally Posted by Polyal

This is as stupid as chroming IMO...serious who are these people?

I agree its silly that things like this become a "craze", its a sheep mentality. The problem occurs when drunktards give it a crack and the above happens.

When I first heard/read about it I was like WTF, then I got even more angry when I realised that MAINSTREAM media has nothing better to do than talk about it..DH's.

Everyone makes choices, but jesus, why did this get any airtime? It just gave stupid people something else to waste their time with. Media should be ashamed for talking about it, IIRC it was on the front page of the Herald Sun FFS...its a toilet paper establishment but it gets around.

Not just in the paper..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILmzwiJe7TQ

[TheSneakiness]

The stupidest thing I've ever seen?

Most likely. Like has been said, already one death and I only heard about this on the radio on the way home today.

[SEZ213]

QPS had it as a Facebook update...the amount of people that were asking WTF was phenomenal, it seems to have escalated from there...

It seems there are brain dead people everywhere, and the need to 'go one better' than their mate is still alive and well in our society. Sheep mentality and people who obviously have too much time on their hands and not enough brains in their heads...

[The G6ET Spot]

Originally Posted by GT

I now understand how old I really am! I firstly had to Google the subject as i thought it was something to do with lengths of timber and once I discovered what it was all about, I desperately looked for one photo that made me at least smile. I just don't get it and didn't find it the slightest funny. I will say, it is better to see the young doing this rather than Tagging.

GT

yep, couldn't agree more. It's about as stupid as tweeting.

[Franco Cozzo]

Originally Posted by Burnout

So crazy in fact that one toss pot came of a roof in Brisbane last night & has taken up residence in the morgue.

I wonder if they layed him face down as a tribute

Everyones complaining about planking and how stupid it is, yeah it may be stupid, but I'm sure theres many out there who think modifying cars, doing burnouts, big displacement engines, more than 4 cylinders and racing cars is stupid as well.

So far we know one person has died because of it, how many people have died behind the wheel of a car doing silly things?

Its not like they're causing anybody harm, chances are they'll only kill themselves.

[Polyal]

Maybe we should send a few of these guys out....

[drew`SEVNT5]

Originally Posted by The G6ET Spot

yep, couldn't agree more. It's about as stupid as tweeting.

Nowt wrong with Twitter...

Use it for all my interests(General news, Politics, Motorsport), and its always up to date and before the TV gets onto anything, let alone newspapers (which is like reading yesterday's internet)

[BENT_8]

WTF...who comes up with this crap.

I was gonna have a huge rant about the mental state of the people taking part in this childish crap, but that would be giving giving it far more consideration than it deserves.

[vztrt]

This planking thing has been around for years. The amount of times I've gone drinking and I see plenty of people planking in the street....

[MGGT RAA]

I have the feeling a couple of you spend more time in front of the tv believing everything it says, than being out having a laugh... Lighten up ay?

Its just a bit of fun thats been taken too far, as per everything else thats ever happened in the world.

[TRUBLU4DS]

pull your heads out of your behinds. To many people spending money on cars is childish crap, collecting old school bmx bikes is childish crap, the list goes on.

Some people like to do certain things. As for the media coverage, dont they also give idiots who drive there cars in an inappropiate manner & lose there lives media coverage every day.