There is this thing called “planking,” which is apparently huge in Australia, and basically it’s people lying very stiffly on their stomachs on top of different things? I don’t get it either. But it’s ...

20-year old Acton Beale is the latest (perhaps only) casualty of the odd pastime known as planking, or the lying down game. Beale plummeted from a seventh story balcony in Brisbane while attempting to ...