What’s that, you say you haven’t heard of this latest tribute to the Gods of Stupidity?
Young people everywhere – New Zealand, at least – are just falling over themselves to try it. It goes something like this: you sit in a tree with a lot of alcohol and drink until you fall out of the tree in a drunken stupor.
I wonder how long it took some young punk to come up with this one?
I wish I had something brilliant and insightful to add; this situation cries out for a voice of reason to restore order to drunken chaos… But I got nothin’.
Don’t young people care about getting laid anymore? Even hours of begging and clumsy fumbling in the back of your old man’s car beats the crap out of falling out of a tree…
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Well, it’s better than standing on a train track waiting to get hit by a train.
I suppose…
Nah. I think if young people are stupid enough to want to do something like this, they are stupid enough to think standing on the train tracks playing chicken is a good idea (or is this just too old fashioned for today’s youth? But then again… they lack all creativity and original thought seeing as all they get are remixes and remakes on everything from music to movies to fashion so maybe it might become popular again).
The world would be better off with out some of these yahoo’s.
Now Mister The Hook, on another note…. is it just me? Or does fashion today seem to remind you a little of the fashion folks wear on Star Trek?
Star Trek influences everything it seems!
the kiwis are just plain silly. and at least they’re not playing ‘possum’ on the road, there’s enough fauna roadkill as it is.
True…
and kids climbing trees etc while drunk is old news anyway…just coz they actaully gave it a name. now if they were to plank while pissed we might have a few more recipiants of the Darwin Awards.
To each their own. Hopefully, after the first the fall, some sense will get knocked into these kids. If not, it’s their hangover, bruises, and potentially broken bones. Personally, I think I’d rather be fumbling around in the backseat of Dad’s Car if I were still so young and stupid.
I agree!
These boys are doing girls a big favor… (or vice versa) because who wants to spend hours making out with someone dumb enough to fall out of a tree on purpose?
Good point – as usual!
Young people do dumb things all in the name of a good (or stupid) laugh. Unfortunately, everyone wants to be on Jackass, or their version of it. Personally, I don’t see the humor in this kind of nonsense, and didn’t even when I was the age of the idiots doing this stuff. BUT, if they want to try for a Darwin Award who are we to stop them. One less stupid person in the world if that’s what happens.
You have a point…
Sheesh! Wouldn’t that result in a broken arm or leg?
Most likely!
Obviously someone has a future in marketing. (or maybe coming up with a new fad and publicizing it is a class assignment?)
Kids are just plain lost these days, pure and simple.
Well this new “trend” just lacks creativity. Can’t they think of something more interesting.
Apparently not.
Apparently no one showed them how to play “Red Rover, Red Rover!”
I wish they had, Jennifer!
This makes “planking” seem like nuclear science!
Well said!
Oh Hook, you just don’t geddit. These kids are trying to test Newton’s ‘Law of Gravity’. They know it works on apples. Could gravity affect humans, too?
“Let’s get hammered and find out, yo!”
Kate
I guess I’m out of touch, Kate!
I would encourage them to jump off a cliff, however some are being tested by jumping from the balconies of hotels here in Spain.They come from everywhere in Europe, to get drunk and jump from the balconies.It seems that young people are so bored that life isn’t important to them.
In fact, there have been several deaths by now.Sad.
It truly is…
You’d think at this point I would have ceased to be amazed by human stupidity. It seems that is not the case.
I echo your sentiments, my longtime friend…