When Planking Goes Wrong: Guy Falls 7 Stories and Dies While Attemtping to Plank [Video Inside]

A 20-year-old man plunged to his death after "planking" on a seventh-story balcony in Brisbane, Australia, the Brisbane Times reported Sunday.

Police told the Times the man fell from a unit block on Main Street in Kangaroo Point shortly before 4:30 a.m. local time.

Paramedics could not revive the man despite working on him for 20 minutes, the Times said. He was pronounced dead a short time later.

Police said they could not say if the fatality was Australia's first planking death.

"It is what we've been fearing," Deputy Commissioner Ross Barnett told reporters, according to the Australia Associated Press.

"Planking," a growing craze in Australia and spreading elsewhere, involves somebody lying flat on one's stomach, stiff as a plank, in unexpected places.

Plankers have shown up on top of signs, train tracks, fire hydrants, clotheslines and motorcycles.

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Comment by Big Shot... on July 9, 2011 at 7:11pm: @Manlcom X, Boule doesnt mean gay?/f**/h*** or any of this. This is an organization (one of the secret societies [began around the early 1900's]) similar the Skull and Bones, except its suppose to be an all black organization. They do interact with the Illuminists almost like master/servant but on a higher level. (Its still in a chain of command like the army.) However, many of them are said to be homosexuals and this has been the fact for a long time....

Comment by Patricia Phillip on July 9, 2011 at 6:19am: this is a real old story being reported. not current at all.

craze is stupid though...but has since died off

Comment by One Love on July 9, 2011 at 6:08am: That's jrl negative talk.
Stick to the topic lady.
She is always on some s***.

My children know not to follow the crowd.
First they know to ask the question. How does planking improve my life? It does not so no need to do it.

Comment by Malcolm X on July 9, 2011 at 4:20am: does Boule mean gay

Comment by K.A.B. on July 8, 2011 at 11:23pm: evolution just weeding out the brain fractures

Comment by Janice Parker on July 8, 2011 at 1:02pm: @evolution..( Lol :-)) Paul Mooney Jr. video is so funny and so true !!!

It really is a shame how "black people" would follow a trend like this without realizing the parallels between this activity and the historical "slave ship" atrocities. It's the same thing with the "sagging pants" off the ass....this being a fad coming out of the prison culture. When these guys walk they look like they have "shackles" on their feet....a form of "self-imprisonment". It seems the further we get ahead as people of color, there is always that segment (particularly the youth) who want to "degress" back into a "slave mentality" by thoughtlessly participating in stupid trends like these.

BLACK PEOPLE WAKE UP!!! WE HAVE TO TEACH OUR YOUTH!!! SO THAT THOSE WHO FOUGHT FOR OUR FREEDOM WILL NOT HAVE DIED IN VAIN!!!

Comment by Big Shot... on July 8, 2011 at 5:36am: Am I really suppose to be sad or feel sorry for this idiot??!!!! HAAHAHHHA, sorry, I don't! One less fool out there... I don't care about anyone getting hurt doing renditions of slavery as a game or a fade... Not cute...

Get lives!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!