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5) Your safety should always be considered. Properly thought through Planking procedures should always go to plan. Never put your self at undue risk.
6) Every Plank that is captured must be named.
But wait, there's more.
"Someone has to take a picture," said Carroll Brown, creator of the Planking Association of America, based in Columbia, Md.
Then you must post it on some sort of social media site -- Facebook, Twitter, Lockerz or even a real-life bulletin board if you really want to go old-school.
Boom. You've planked. Now you wait for other people to comment. You might even get unofficial "points," based on degree of difficulty, hilarity or both.
Says Ronald Chapman, creator of the Planking in Houston Facebook page (and whose first plank, he says, was on a police car parked outside a restaurant): "The crazier the place, the funnier it looks."
And that's the whole point. But how did it start in the first place?