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The craze of planking involves taking photos of people lying face down, their arms by their sides, in strange locations, and posting the pictures on Facebook and the site dedicated to planking www.iplanking.com, from where several of these images are taken. This photograph is titled the Amstel Plank






Planking, which has origins in other similar games around the world including "the lying down game" started in the north east of England, gained international notoriety on May 15, 2011 with the death of 20-year-old Acton Beale. Beale fell from a seven-storey apartment while planking on a balcony in Queensland, Australia.






But the tragedy did little to decrease the popularity of planking. This is the Air Cabin Plank






Some celebrities have got in on the act including Ellen Page and...






Actress Kristen Bell who posted this photo on Twitter of herself and boyfriend Dax Shephard planking






New Zealand Prime Minister John Key (background) with his son, Max






The Planking Australia page on Facebook has more than 10,000 supporters and includes hundreds of photographs of plankters






The trend spread to Norway, Austria, Ireland, the United Kingdom and Taiwan (above) and last week planking was one of the most searched for terms on Google






Pujie Girls, Karren, right, and Jinyu, demonstrate planking at the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial, Taiwan






The Pujie Girls are Taiwan's best-known plankers, with almost 100,000 fans following them on Facebook






The two girls are aiming to promote tourism in Taiwan, not just to China but to the world

















Telegraph reader Mary Haines of Hertford sent us this great planking picture, writing: "We spent the day doing Extreme Lying Down at various historic sites around Vienna. Got to the train station and couldn't pass up the opportunity of two escalators and several layers. So, Extreme Lying Down, Viennese style." If you have a photograph you'd like us to consider for a picture gallery, please email it to mypic@telegraph.co.uk, supplying a little info on where and how the picture was taken.
 
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Article from: http://www.tmz.com/2011/07/08/rappe...is-brown-rosario-dawson-internet-crazy-prank/

Rapper Xzibit: 'Planking' Is RACIST!!!

7/8/2011 9:22 AM PDT by TMZ Staff

It's the latest craze taking over the Internet -- lying face down in bizarre places, stiff as wood -- but rapper Xzibit is leading a new charge AGAINST "planking" ... claiming the practice has RACIST roots.



Xzibit took to his Twitter recently, claiming, "Planking is THE dumbest sh*t ever. Planking was a way to transport slaves on ships during the slave trade, its not funny. Educate yourselves."

The rapper adds, "Dont get it twisted. I care less where your dumb asses lay face down and take pictures of the sh*t, I'm just telling you where it came from."

It's all probably news to Katy Perry, Demi Moore, Rosario Dawson (above), Chris Brown, and Justin Bieber -- who have ALL posted pics of themselves online ... looking board.

So we gotta ask ...

UPDATE: Xzibit just tweeted re: TMZ: "Wow. They are trying to make me the Al Sharpton of planking. #news?"

UPDATE: From TMZ: Yes, Al, news.
 
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