The latest craze among young people blazing across the Internet is called "planking", where a person is photographed lying face down, stiff as a board and in a precarious place. The "sport" now has it's first known casualty. A 20 -year-old man fell from a seven-story balcony after trying to balance himself across a two-inch railing the other morning.
The worldwide sensation of planking has thousands of participants and Facebook pages with 100,000 followers. YouTube is being flooded with images of rigid and motionless teens and twenty-somethings who then hurry home to spend hours in front of their computers sitting and staring at photos of other people lying down doing nothing.
The dead man was identified as Acton Beale, who was pronounced dead outside his Brisbane, Australia apartment complex at 4:30 a.m.. He was allegedly being filmed by a friend when he fell to his senseless death.
The "sport" of planking has become a dangerous, and now deadly, craze among young thrill seekers. It involves nothing except a camera, a lot of time on your hands and an even more bored friend to record the action--or inaction.
