Posted on 09/09/2011 7:31:05 AM PDT by Jack Hydrazine
CHICAGO (CBS) — Planking or Owling? Forget about it.
Now, it’s “Batmanning.”
While the planking trend involved taking your picture in various places lying flat, “batmanning” is much more difficult–and possibly more dangerous. It involves hanging upside down, only by your feet.
A group of Purdue University freshmen claim to have started the trend late last month. They made a video that shows them hanging from various locations on campus–from parking garages, stadium gates and statues.
While it clearly requires much more athleticism than planking, some fear it could lead to serious injury. There were reports of people hurting themselves while lying flat, while planking. One can only imagine what could happen if people fall while hanging upside down.
A video posted by the Purdue students has gone viral, with over 400,000 views and has inspired numerous imitations
“If you do a Google search there’s a ton of articles (about the video), from the UK to articles in languages I can’t even understand. It’s definitely gone international,” Purdue student Chris Ganz told the Lafayette Journal and Courier.
Already replaced by “ostriching”
They should just consolidate it all and call it attentionwhoring.
Followed with yawning
Well, stupidity should be painful.
I can’t wait for “cliffing” to finally put a stop to this nonsense.
So....everyone Google “Mexican donkey shows”.
Not a whole helluvalotta difference. Can you say, “Attention Whore”?
I would think that there is a chance that some of the participants may end up in wheelchairs.
Followed by “burying”
I can’t wait for “jackassing”. I’m sure it’s coming. Maybe it’ll clean out the gene pool a little.
” One can only imagine what could happen if people fall while hanging upside down.”
Right! Hmmmm - - . Seems that when I was in school somebody named Newton came up with a law for that. Hmmmm - - - - . Now which of my old textbooks would that law be in - - - ? I know it is a law because there were no exceptions, well, at least there were none back then.
Usually that trend starts back up in November when people vote for Democrats.
Wonder if the same people who complain about “subsidizing” insurance for smokers and fatties will be complaining about subsidizing insurance for these morons.
Here’s an idea, how about some homeworking?
I’m just waiting for someone to start the “speed bumping” craze and then we’ll see who the truly dedicated meme monkeys are.
It just evolution in action.
“The Shad Planking traces its origin to the early 1930s when a group of friends gathered together at Wrenn’s Mill in Isle Of Wight County during the spring running of the shad in the James River.
They planked the shad after the tradition of native Virginia Indians and they talked politics after the tradition of their fathers before them.
As the tradition grew, the Wakefield Ruritan Club assumed sponsorship of the event in 1949. Generations of Virginia politicians have attended and addressed the Shad Planking gathering.”
Wow! They were planking well before it was cool!
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