Turn out this activity was called planking, "Planking" (or the "Lying Down Game") is an activity consisting of lying face down in an unusual or incongruous location. Both hands must touch the sides of the body and having a photograph of the participant taken and posted on the Internet is an integral part of the game.[1] Players compete to find the most unusual and original location in which to play.[1] The term planking refers to mimicking a wooden plank. Rigidity of the body must be maintained to constitute good planking.
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Since early 2011, many participants in planking have photographed the activity on unusual locations such as atop poles, roofs and vehicles. Planking can include lying flat on a flat surface, or holding the body flat while it's supported in only some regions, with other parts of the body suspended.
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Comedian Tom Green claims to have invented "planking" as early as 1994. Gary Clarkson and Christian Langdon claim to have invented planking in 2000, first becoming popular in North East England.
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The lying down game spread to the rest of the world, where it has also been known as "playing dead" (2003, South Korea), "à plat ventre" ("On one’s belly", France 2004), "extreme lying down" (2008, Australasia), "facedowns" (2010, USA and Ireland), and "planking" (2011, Australia & New Zealand and worldwide).
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Critics of the lying down game compare the game with the slave trade-era practice and manner of stowing African slaves upon the planks of a slave ship's lower hold, as illustrated in the Brookes abolitionist poster imagery, although University of Pittsburgh professor Marcus Rediker states there is no "deliberate connection" between the contemporary usage and any previous meaning imputed to the term.
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The game made news in September 2009, when seven doctors and nurses working at the Great Western Hospital in Swindon, England were suspended for playing the lying down game while on duty.
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| planking on a tree |
On 13 May 2011, a 20-year-old man from Gladstone in central Queensland was charged for allegedly planking on a police vehicle.
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| planking in trash |
On 15 May 2011, Acton Beale, a 20-year-old man, plunged to his death after reportedly "planking" on a seventh-floor balcony in Brisbane, Australia.
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| planking on camels |
On 29 May 2011, Max Key, son of New Zealand Prime Minister John Key, uploaded to Facebook a photograph of himself planking on a lounge suite, his father standing behind him. After the photograph was reproduced on the front page of the New Zealand Herald two days later, the Prime Minister's office initially declined comment. [18] But later that day, confirming that the photograph was indeed genuine, Mr. Key remarked that he doesn't see anything wrong with planking when done safely and that it was he who had actually introduced Max to planking in the first place, having seen a video of the phenomenon on YouTube.[19] Key was criticized for his appearance in the photograph with some going as far as to comment that he "killed" the meme.
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| planking on a bike |
On 2 September 2011, Dwight Howard and about 100 of his fans planked in Beijing, China.
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| planking on the chimney (don't try this at home!) |
So that looks like some thing that we should probably do just for fun with friends or family around to be safe of course, so remember that before you plankers doing planking ^_^
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