Find an odd place and lie face down... Is this the most pointless internet craze yet?

 

By Daily Mail Reporter

Last updated at 3:05 PM on 09th July 2009

 

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They lie rigidly face-down on rooftops, postboxes, luggage racks and even in the engine of a jumbo jet.

It's the latest and perhaps the most bizarre internet phenomenon yet to sweep the globe.

Several Facebook groups set up in honour of 'the Lying Down Game' display thousands of photographs of people lying face-down in progressively odder locations.

 

Out of their trees: Three girls take the Lying Down Game to new heights by balancing on branches

 

Watch your swing: Another Facebook fan poses acting as a human tee at a golf range

It seems no location is out of bounds, with people lying down roofs, in the middle of the road, in front of tanks, across bars in pubs and on table football games.

Participants are told there are two aims to the challenge; that the lying down should be as public as possible and that as many people as possible should be involved.

Players are told they must have their palms flat against their sides with the tips of their toes touching the ground.

 

Pitch invasion: A woman lies across a table football game while friends appear to carry on regardless

 

Winging it: A particularly daring exponent of the Lying Down Game makes use of an aircraft engine

It seems it may have been sparked by one British group of friends who grew bored with posing for the usual holiday photographs.

Newcastle doormen Scott Wood and Wayne Pyle set up a Facebook page after a trip to Majorca.

Mr Wood, 34, said: 'I started doing it when I was on a lads' holiday in Magaluf. I thought lying on the floor would be a funnier way to pose for my holiday snaps.'

 

No one appears to be on the watch for traffic in this well attended lie-down in the middle of a street

 

Mind the gap: Two bollards are all this Lying Down fan needs for her pose

He added: 'We want people to find the most random places they can - the weirder the better.

'There's so much misery around these days, with the recession and everything - this is an excuse to have a joke and do something silly.'

Fan Danielle Mitchell, 23, from Newcastle, said the so-called game had become a hit with her own circle of friends.

'We are always looking for weird places to lie down,' she said.

'I think everyone should have a go at the Lying Down Game - it's very liberating.'

 

Triple points: These three girls take the game to a new level

 

 

Phone line: This odd arrangement of phone boxes proved too good an opportunity for two boys to ignore

 

 

Gravity-defying: A cigarette machine is the location for a particularly impressive spot of balancing

 

Let's hope the brakes are on: A young participant takes up position in front of a tank

 

Balancing act: A young man manages to lie lengthwise on a fence without falling off

At least they are getting out of the house

omg that last one has to be a crotch killer

This is so stupid and pointless... and I don't even get why they think it's fun.

that is funny as.

I don't think the powers-at-be are likely to take this lying down................................. :rolleyes: