fads

Despite our advanced level of civilization, we’re still herd animals at heart. How else can you explain the persistence of fads? “Everybody else was doing it” is a pretty lousy excuse, but it’s all we have. Sometimes, though, the desire to participate in a trend can have fatal results. In this feature, we’ll tell ten tales of people killed while foolishly participating in ridiculous fads. Planking (2011) One of the most inexplicable trends of the last few years was planking, where people … laid down. In public. So named because the position of the body resembles a wooden plank, it ...