A Kiwi credited with inventing the game of planking is now being blamed for death of an Australian who performed the stunt drunk on a balcony railing.
Acton Beale, 20, fell to his death after falling from a seventh-floor railing in Brisbane on Sunday morning.
A message left on Dunedin man Paul Carran's internet site claims his game is fatally irresponsibe.
The message posted on Carran’s YouTube planking clip from 2009 reads: “Your video killed a friend of mine. You seriously should take this down”.
Planking is an internet fad which involves being photographed lying face down, with your body as straight as possible, in a random place.
The game became popular in the UK in 2006 but has recently enjoyed resurgence in Australia after NRL player David Williams attempted the stunt after scoring a try.
Photos have also emerged this week of a former Australian AFL player and TV show star Sam Newman "planking" on the railing of a 40-storey balcony, taken hours before the Queensland man fell to his death.
But Carran told 3news he is not to blame for any deaths.
"It’s not like anybody, or me personally, made him (Beale) do it,” he said.
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