A Golden Treasury Of Planking

You probably already heard a man in Australia fell to his death while “planking” (AKA playing the Lying Down Game), a trend where a person is photographed lying flat in an odd place with their arms stiffly at their sides. The death has led to Australian schools and businesses cracking down on planking; six students in Queensland were suspended for planking and eight Woolworths employees were fired for planking on the job. As can be expected, when people are told they can't do something, it becomes 869% more entertaining to do it. Exactly 869%. That's just science.

With those important statistics in mind, we've collected some of our favorite planking photos:

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Another planking dog [via]

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Damon Lindelof, co-creator and executive producer of Lost, planking on his coffee table. Holy crap, he uses the hatch as his coffee table. Like a boss. [via]

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Multi-story group planking at a tourist attraction? Bonus points. [via]

Yes, that's Flava Flav. [via]

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Karren and Jinyu call themselves the "Pujie Girls", which translates as "falling on the street" in Mandarin. They're the most famous plankers in Taiwan, which sounds about as financially-rewarding as being the best-known mime in Poughkeepsie. They do have almost 100,000 fans on Facebook however, so that's something, which is nice. [via]

Here's Karren from the Pujie Girls planking outside Taiwan's National Theatre last week. [via]

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Apple Store employees are also getting into the trend. (more at AppleStorePlanking) [via]

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I'm not convinced she's planking. I think those clowns killed her. [via]

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10 comments

RoboPanda posted

"A Golden Treasury Of Planking"

06.02.11 at 8:02 am
Destiny
Some of the people just look like they are sleeping. :)
06.02.11 at 10:32 am
Taco_Jones
RP, I love you, but this subject matter is so boring, I just couldn’t get through the whole thing. I did love the animals who didn’t want to take a bath, though. 94 pics of that, please!
06.02.11 at 11:30 am
The Reverend Skeleton
It’s too bad that more of the people that think this is funny or clever don’t die while doing it.
06.02.11 at 7:53 pm
ChinoMoreno
I’ve been planking for years, I just didn’t know that’s what it was called. I’ve always just called it ‘drank too much and passed out on the sidewalk’.
06.02.11 at 9:11 pm
Lah
LMAO @ That’s just science haha.
06.03.11 at 6:21 pm
Jeremy
This is the dumbest trend in awhile. Other then bringing back 3D. So maybe the second dumbest.
06.04.11 at 5:28 pm
Prayl
This is probaly the most retarded thing ive seen people do since the mullet..
06.04.11 at 6:20 pm
six
He should have employed his 5th leg in the effort
06.05.11 at 2:27 am
Lucy
I seriously thought there was a step 2 in this “planking”. I thought step 1 was as described in photo 1, suspend your body between 2 points. Step 2, your mate jumps on your midsection, feet first.
I should actually read details in the future rather than just make stuff up as I go along.
06.06.11 at 12:38 pm
thrillhouse
I’m pretty sure #25 is just dead.

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