You may cancel your subscription at anytime by calling Customer Service. Skip to Main Content Skip to Search. News Corp is a global, diversified media and information services company focused on creating and distributing authoritative and engaging content and other products and services. Dow Jones. By Amir Efrati. To Read the Full Story. On May 15th, the "planking" phenomenon became a highly controversial topic in the news media when Acton Beale, a 20 year old man, plunged to death from an attempt at "planking" on a seventh floor balcony is Brisbane, Australia.
Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard warned plankers that their "focus has to be on keeping yourself safe first". The Queensland Opposition and the state's police have called for people to stop participating in the fad. The fad also spread over to the neighboring island New Zealand, where it caused much concern for the authorities and educators.
On May 19th, , a student was caught planking on the ledge of a secondary school building in Central North Island. On May 25th, another student was caught planking on a railway line, in front of an oncoming train. On July 6th, , Rapper Xzibit openly expressed his disdain for the popular planking game via Twitter post, calling it "the dumbest shit ever" and claiming that the fad was related to slavery:.
His tweets were picked up by hundreds of his followers and celebrity news blogs like Gawker [11] and TMZ [12] and BET [14] reported on Xzibit's comments. However, in tweets that followed up later, Xzibit denied ever labeling the game "racist.
On July 28th, fans gathered at the Grauman's Chinese Theater in Los Angeles for the premiere for the documentary "Electronic Daisy Carnival Experience" about the annual electronic music festival. When the crowd became too large, people began spilling into the street and police were called on to the scene to control the increasingly chaotic situation. During the standoff, a group of fans planked in a row in front of the police:. After being inundated with angry tweets from Chris Brown fans, Andy made a sarcastic apology during a segment on Fox News on August 18th, The video was posted to Reddit [17] , and the Daily What [18] on August 19th, On August 30th, , the blog Slactory [19] posted an article titled "Virtual Planking: Video Games Go Face Down" with a compilation of planking examples from various video games inspired by a hipster e-honda planking image.
On September 19th, , Quezon city's representative Winston Castelo filed a bill called the "Anti-Planking Act of ," which would serve as a "universal code of student" conduct and strictly prohibit planking "as a form of redress of grievance" during street protests.
The bill further recommends proper sanctions and specifically target "bona fide" students, whether they attend universities or elementary schools. The proposal of "Anti-Planking Act" was first introduced by Castelo in , following several news reports about safety hazards surrounding the global photo fad. The bill mostly remained inactive for over a year until September 19th, , when a group of students were seen planking in the capital city of Manila during the nationwide transport strike over high oil prices.
According to the local news reports, Castelo's renewed initiative has been reported as a direct response to the Filippino planking protesters. Sunday New York Times Magazine's comics section also poked sarcasm at the Filipino legislation by listing "planking" as one of the activities one should avoid when rioting. On December 8th, , The Smoking Gun [23] published an article about two teeanger brothers, Wisconsin residents Alexander and Ryan Hart, who had been criminally charged after the Manitowoc police department discovered photos and video of their planking exploits that had been uploaded to the Internet.
Ryan Hart apparently upset cops by lying across a police memorial monument in front of the county jail. Popkin on December 9th, , who noted that Hart attempted to claim the images were fabricated. Approached individually by the police, both Alexander Hart, 19 and Ryan Hart, 21, first claimed the photos were Photoshopped before finally fessing up.
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Know Your Meme is an advertising supported site and we noticed that you're using an ad-blocking solution. Quizzed about the dangers of this strange new craze yesterday, prime minister Julia Gillard told reporters: , "There's a difference between a harmless bit of fun done somewhere that's really safe and taking a risk with your life.
Everybody likes a bit of fun, but the focus has to be on keeping yourself safe first. Dedicated hipsters will have heard of planking years ago. Though it is now biggest in Australia, it is an English — some would say, quintessentially English — creation.
It began 14 years ago with a pair of bored kids. Gary Clarkson, then 15, and his friend Christian Langdon, 12, would perform the plank in public places, amusing one another and baffling onlookers. Back then, it was known simply as the Lying Down Game. It was a pointedly pointless way for the boys to pass the time. As Clarkson puts it: "It was just a really stupid, random thing to do. For its first 10 years planking spread at a snail's pace, from Clarkson and Langdon to their friends at school and, after a while, on to other kids from the neighbourhood.
Then, in , when the pair created a Facebook group for their game, the pace accelerated. Soon, they had a few thousand followers. Photographs of plankers trickled in from all over the world: American plankers on the tops of their televisions, British plankers in trees, and Europeans on country roads and the banks of fjords.
The craze began to garner its first major press coverage in September , when a group of seven accident-and-emergency staff were suspended pending disciplinary hearings for playing the game while on a night shift at the Great Western Hospital in Swindon.
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