The Lying Down Game

The Lying Down Game is an Internet meme typically involving individuals having their photograph taken whilst lying rigidly face down.
The practice has spread on the internet site Facebook and has been described as "bizarre new craze" and "perhaps the most bizarre internet phenomenon yet to sweep the globe".
Two aims of the challenge are that the participants should lay down in as public a place as possible, with as many people as possible involved. Participants should have the palm of their hands held against their sides and their toes touching the ground. No location is out of bounds and a disregard for personal safety can give extra kudos.
The game attracted over 1,500 members on its Facebook game in its first two weeks.
The phenomenon attracted international press coverage after first appearing in The Northern Echo, the daily newspaper for the North-East of England.
In September 2009, it was reported that seven NHS staff members at Swindon's Great Western Hospital were under investigation and facing possible dismissal after they posted pictures of themselves on Facebook participating in the Lying Down Game on the hospital's resuscitation trolleys, ward floors and the Wiltshire Air Ambulance helipad.

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