Planking Pictures Horten is a craze sweeping Australia in recent weeks and will end in the worst possible conditions today with a young man falling from a balcony and died while trying to make a “board”. The people on this side of the world, the trend as “down”, which was a huge hit at the end of last year with all sorts of weird and wonderful photos popping up on Facebook to know. The man died in Brisbane, when attempting a plank over a balcony. The young man was in his early 20s and there is a page on Facebook (some irony there)