Adam Schleichkorn

Adam Schleichkorn, 25, of Huntington, New York, and a graduate student at the C.W. Post, Long Island University, made National News for creating the internet fad know as Fence Plowing.

Fence Plowing is the act of running full speed into a fence, with the intention of knocking it over or breaking through it. The fad originated in a video clip on YouTube posted by . Schleichkorn, who while at his cousin's house in Florida, talked Ryan Reed, a husky former high school football player, and his cousin Jon Schleichkorn into plowing into an old fence, breaking it down.

Fence plowing received news coverage in an Associated Press story, regarding the arrest of teenagers in Suffolk County on Long Island who copied Schleichkorn's clip, which ran on every news channel across the country. The television coverage was followed up several interviews with Schleichkorn, on FOX News, ABC News, and ABC's 20/20.

While the original video showed fence plowing in his cousin's own backyard, the arrests for vandalism on Long Island were from breaking other peoples' fences. Schleichkorn, who has created many popular internet clips since the incident which he releases on his Youtube channel, has always maintained his stance against vandalism, and "never intended for it to be done to public property". He's stated that he was inspired by the TV series, Jackass, and also Howard Stern.

“There’s a fine line between brilliance and idiocy,” Schleichkorn said. “I’m about somewhere right on that line . . . "

Schleichkorn currently runs an Internet TV company, Hidden Track TV with Peter Toh, where they are currently the number 42 Most Subscribed Guru of all time on Youtube, featuring all of Peter's music videos, as well as popular web videos such as "The Cheese Incident", "Worst Basketball Player Ever", and many others.

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