Planking Cat

On 19 May 2011, a New Zealand student was caught planking on the ledge of a secondary-school building in the central North Island. On 25 May 2011, a student was caught planking on a railway line, in front of an oncoming train. Authorities will not reveal in which part of New Zealand this occurred, but the student was reportedly not harmed. This led to some school principals speaking out against the fad. Numerous students in NSW have also been caught planking during school time, and reportedly planking people's cars in driveways and doorways after knocking. The colloquial term for this behaviour is "Knock 'n' Plank", related to "Knock 'n' run".
On 29 May 2011, Max Key, son of New Zealand Prime Minister John Key, uploaded a photograph to Facebook of himself planking on a lounge suite, his father standing behind him. After the photograph was reproduced on the front page of the New Zealand Herald two days later, the Prime Minister's office initially declined comment, but later that day, confirming that the photograph was indeed genuine, Mr. Key remarked that he doesn't see anything wrong with planking when done safely, and that it was he who had actually introduced Max to planking in the first place, having seen a video of the phenomenon on YouTube.