Moves to outlaw planking (1 Viewer)

[Selador]

http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/05/24/what-a-plank-sa-ags-office-mulls-planking-ban/

South Australia is considering outlawing dangerous planking attempts as the increasingly-popular social media-fueled craze puts the fragile lives of the state’s vulnerable youth at serious risk.
Crikey understands that a secret cabinet submission, circulated under the auspices of freshly-minted Attorney General John Rau, is doing the rounds in government circles that makes some acts of planking — in which adherents are photographed or videoed lying face down on a random object parallel to the ground — a criminal offence. Unspecified “related behaviour” would also fall under its orbit.
An attachment to the document is said to contain images of what public servants consider to be safe and dangerous or “precipitous” planking — in which the broader public as well as the planker is endangered. The proposal would be enacted via a new amendment to the state’s Criminal Law Consolidation Act.

 

[annagurl]

If they make is illegal, I think more people would do it.

 

[Lentern]

I support this if we can make the legislation retrospective and use it to lock up Richard Wilkins.

 

[Lolsmith]

LYING DOWN IS NOW ILLEGAL IN QLD

ugh

 

[Jimmy Recard]

bligh actually hasnt said anything like that

some cunt said it on twitter (john birmingham)

 

[pony_magician]

You can tell politicians have nothing better to do when they dicuss and debate lying down on shit.

 

[Riet]

The whole planking thing is the memetic embodiment of absurdity.

 

[LoveHateSchool]

Pretty hard to define exactly what constitutes planking on something. What if your just lying down?

Planking is banned at my school lol

 

[Slidey]

Planks are an important pillar of society.

 

[kaz1]

not really that dangerous

 

[cosmo kramer]

lET ME BRING INFINITE POWER TO THE HUMAN BODY

also ban planking not because its dangerous (it isnt anyway) but because it is stupid

 

[Bread_2_Toast]

DON'T BAN IT!
MAKE IT AN EXTREME SPORT
and weed out the stupid

 

[Funky Monk]

relevant

Bill Hicks

What a dick. He's an idiot. If he thought he could fly, why didn't he take off from the ground first? Check it out? You don't see geese lined up to catch elevators to fly south; they fly from the fucking ground. He's an idiot. He's dead. Good! We lost a moron? Fucking celebrate. There's one less moron in the world.

 

[slyhunter]

DON'T BAN IT!
MAKE IT AN EXTREME SPORT
and weed out the stupid

I want to see this

 

[Bread_2_Toast]

relevant

Bill Hicks

hahahahaha

 

[Blastus]

this fucking country

 

[MysteryGenius]

oh my god

 

[MysteryGenius]

Pretty hard to define exactly what constitutes planking on something. What if your just lying down?

lol are you serious?

 

[SylviaB]

hahahahaha i dont know how im going to make it through my life without killing some cunts

 

[Riproot]

Pretty hard to define exactly what constitutes planking on something. What if you're just lying down?
Planking is banned at my school lol

They banned it at my school on monday. I planked in Chem on Friday and we all had a laugh at how I represented the lower 20% of intelligence in society, but apparently some kids were planking on the sail things near the hall which are like 4 metres off the ground (no idea how they got up there) and apparently on railings and shit...