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From Planking and Owling Comes Hybrid 'Plowling' [PHOTOS]

It started as a simple trend: Planking. A game where a person lies down in the most obscure and dangerous places and then uploads their pictures onto the internet. From planking grew the phenomenon of " Owling," where people perch like owls on objects such as stair rails, statues, roofs in what seemed to be a slightly harder game. Just as people started running out of creative " planking" and "Owling" photos a new community page has been launched on Facebook; Plowling.

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