UPDATE: After the first death as a result of planking, and another man in a coma, Charles Purcell had this to say about the ‘epidemic’ in the Sydney Morning Herald:

UPDATE: What is thought to be Australia’s first planking death has occurred in Queensland. According to The Courier Mail:

Planking is the latest craze to hit the Internet and it’s a doozy. All over the world, people are lying face-down on objects, with their heads down and arms by their sides, trying to look as plank-ish as possible. It’s like flashmobbing but….just with one person, no dancing and laying really still.

So it’s nothing like flashmobbing at all.

If it wasn’t enough to be immortalised as a guinea pig on Chris Lilley’s Angry Boys earlier this week,  Kerri-Anne has cemented her place as a pop cultural icon by opening her show this morning while planking. Naturally, police are concerned.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoCON4LfFs8&feature=player_embedded

The Courier Mail reports…

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