Radar,
This new mindless fad is about the clearest display of the idiocy of the masses. I still can't fathom how this utter stupidity gets so readily embraced. Is our society actually already beyond repair ? Mindless sports, mindless music, mindless movies, mindless advertising etc.
Spoke with a child carer this morning & she told me some of the things that are now literally an offence such as calling an animal black, or using a red highlighter because it could traumatise (??) a child, or drawing the easter bunny, the list goes on. I think our society has lost the plot. Planking is so stupid that not even a lunatic asylum would take them on.

Too right Belly, the way it's going around here these days, we are going to have to look after each other directly, & stop asking government to do everything for us.

Planking is a bit weird,in my view, but is my view right.
Well no, see if they want to do it let them, but now Individual is really getting hot under the collar here,and almost in every post.
Is there some thing about old age that brings us to condemn every thing those younger than us do.
Every change we do not like, hope not,I like just about every thing about todays people.
Kids are no longer to be seen but not heard cuddles and love come their way not get out the back shouts.
If planking has become a sign we are all mad then a quick re read of this thread will prove we always have been.
Ever swing way out and jump from a rope in to the creek wondering if you would hit bottom Indy?
Get on a horse you did not trust,race your billy cart down a hill just a bit too steep?
Put them all in the army is that going to make you happy, just see the Sgt M planking on parade

Belly,
I don't know about you but I see a huge difference between doing something risky then just simply following some new fad.
The difference being, a risk is something one assesses or has no time to ponder about. A fad is mindless copycatting-where the individual does no thinking, merely following like a sheep.
My thoughts wander back to Jimmy Jones every time I hear about mass following.
Maybe we should show these morons even more dangerous ways, it would certainly free up a lot of Hospital beds & boost Undertakers' business.

Quite frankly, planking is by far the most moronic hill-billy activity ever invented- designed for people who are so dumb that they somehow believe that lying down requires 'skill'.

So if by some bizarre reason people somehow actually kill themselves by doing it- good news for everyone else- it will most likely mean one less future drag-racer in the world that will run somebody innocent over.

What's interesting is that because these days I'm not watching the news and haven't clicked on planking stories online, I didn't actually know what it was until I asked a friend the other day.

I must say, I was a tad underwhelmed by his explanation...I expected something far more intriguing.

But, there you go, sometimes humanity acts smart and sometimes it acts dumb.....strange how the dumb stuff spreads like wildfire, especially when the media gets involved.