Planking. A Funny Prank? A Parent's Nightmare.

Here comes  another fad.

The pictures are posted on Facebook.  It's supposed to be cool and funny.

And it's just turned fatal.

Have you heard about "Planking?"

It sounds innocent enough.

 It involves someone lying flat on their stomach with their arms against their body in an unusual setting or situation.

Kids do it.  Their friends take pictures of them.  The pictures are plastered on the Internet.

There are pictures of kids planking on train tracks, escalators, and  motorcycles.  On stairways and stones.

The more outrageous the better, right?

Police say a planker has died in Australia.   He plummeted from a seventh story balcony while planking on a railing.

Just so sickening.

A prank.  A plank.

A waste of life.

A forever heartbreak for those left behind.