{"id":148521,"date":"2021-12-29T20:33:26","date_gmt":"2021-12-29T20:33:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/?p=148521"},"modified":"2021-12-29T20:33:26","modified_gmt":"2021-12-29T20:33:26","slug":"mother-in-law-playing-richies-plank-experience-faceplants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/world-news\/mother-in-law-playing-richies-plank-experience-faceplants\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother-in-law playing Richie&apos;s Plank Experience faceplants"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Moment mother-in-law faceplants as she walks the plank during virtual reality game &#8211; and her son is too busy laughing to catch her<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Charlotte Sturge, 34, of Broxbourne, Herts, filmed Debbie, her mother-in-law<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Debbie was trying out immersive game Richie&#8217;s Plank Experience on Xmas Day<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Game sees you ascend lift of building, 80 storeys high, before you &#8216;walk the plank&#8217; overhanging the edge;\u00a0Debbie was &#8216;fine after but her elbows hurt a bit&#8217;<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This is the moment a woman fell flat on her face as she walked along a plank while playing a virtual reality game &#8211; and her son was laughing too much to catch her.<\/p>\n<p>Charlotte Sturge,\u00a0from Broxbourne, Hertfordshire, filmed her mother-in-law Debbie trying out the immersive game Richie&#8217;s Plank Experience on Christmas Day.<\/p>\n<p>The game sees you ascend the lift of a building, 80 storeys high, before you then &#8216;walk the plank&#8217; jutting outside with a dizzying drop to street level.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 34-year-old records Debbie &#8211; surrounded by family members &#8211; as she cautiously approaches the short piece of wood on the carpeted floor.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2021\/12\/29\/19\/52343247-10353121-image-a-24_1640805845837.jpg\" height=\"1052\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Charlotte Sturge, from Broxbourne, Hertfordshire, films her mother-in-law Debbie wearing a virtual-reality headset as she tries to play Richie&#8217;s Plank Experience on Christmas Day. Above, Debbie tentatively steps onto a short plank &#8211; mimicking the one she&#8217;s on in the virtual world<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2021\/12\/29\/19\/52343253-10353121-image-m-28_1640805877825.jpg\" height=\"502\" width=\"306\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2021\/12\/29\/19\/52343267-10353121-image-m-31_1640805897988.jpg\" height=\"502\" width=\"306\"><\/p>\n<p>Debbie cautiously moves forward, as if on a tightrope &#8211; before panicking and losing her balance. Her son is seen in the image on the left, holding a drink\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Wearing her slippers and a VR headset, Debbie puts one foot on the plank but is given a fright when someone shouts at her.<\/p>\n<p>She then gathers her composure, looks around and says: &#8216;I am still in the lift&#8217; &#8211; to which Mrs Sturge\u00a0responds: &#8216;You need to get out of the lift, Deb.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Debbie makes her way onto the plank, feeling her way along and exclaims that she can&#8217;t see her foot.<\/p>\n<p>She slowly moves forwards, as if on a tightrope, and a family\u00a0member can be heard saying: &#8216;She is going to fall into the TV or something.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2021\/12\/29\/19\/52343257-10353121-image-m-33_1640805937100.jpg\" height=\"796\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Debbie crashes to the floor, smacking her head on the carpet. Her son, who has failed to stop her fall, checks to see if she is OK.\u00a0\u00a0&#8216;She was surprisingly fine afterwards. Although, the next day she did say her elbows hurt a bit, but that was all,&#8217; said Mrs Sturge<\/p>\n<p>Within seconds, a panicked Debbie screams, loses her balance and falls to the side &#8211; smacking her face on the floor and almost hitting the Christmas tree.<\/p>\n<p>Her family bursts into laughter &#8211; including her giggling son, nursing a drink, who fails to catch her.<\/p>\n<p>Although Debbie&#8217;s elbows &#8216;hurt a bit&#8217; afterwards, she was otherwise fine.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mrs Sturge posted the video to Facebook on Monday, writing: &#8216;When you let the mother-in-law on the VR, you just know you need to film.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Anyone had any accidents on the VR yet? We&#8217;ve all had so much fun with ours. The game she&#8217;s playing is The Plank, but if I were you, don&#8217;t use a piece of wood as it actually makes it feel worse.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;No mother-in-laws were hurt in the making of this video. I&#8217;m sure my husband could have caught her though.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2021\/12\/29\/19\/52344951-10353121-Richie_s_Plank_Experience_sees_you_ascend_the_lift_of_a_building-a-47_1640806980184.jpg\" height=\"353\" width=\"633\"><\/p>\n<p>Richie&#8217;s Plank Experience sees you ascend the lift of a building, 80 storeys high, before you then &#8216;walk the plank&#8217; jutting outside with a dizzying drop to street level<\/p>\n<p>The post has received over 5,600 likes and more than 2,000 comments in just over a day.<\/p>\n<p>Social media users found the video hilarious &#8211; and some shared their own experiences.<\/p>\n<p>One wrote: &#8216;He literally just stood there with his beer and watched her fall to the ground. I ain&#8217;t spilling my beer for no one.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Another said: &#8216;We love ours and the kids playing it cracks us up. I had an accident while playing the boxing game.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I full-forced punched the solid brick wall. Luckily no serious injuries, just a very bruised, very swollen, cut-up hand.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Speaking today, Mrs Sturge said: &#8216;We got the VR for Christmas, and all day I was wanting to get my mother-in-law on it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I thought she&#8217;d be scared of the plank game and how high up you are. My husband thought it would be a good idea to add a piece of wood so it felt like you were actually on a plank of wood.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Then you can see what happened, she lost her footing and thought she was actually falling from the plank 1,000ft up.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;In the instructions, it does state you have to have someone standing close by in case you lose your balance. We didn&#8217;t see that bit.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;She was surprisingly fine after the fall. Although, the next day she did say her elbows hurt a bit, but that was all.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;After we found out she was OK, we all had a laugh about it. I just couldn&#8217;t actually believe she fell like that.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-10353121\/Moment-woman-playing-Richies-Plank-Experience-faceplants-son-fails-catch-Video.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moment mother-in-law faceplants as she walks the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":148520,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23056],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Mother-in-law playing Richie&amp;apos;s Plank Experience faceplants - Pre Coin News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/world-news\/mother-in-law-playing-richies-plank-experience-faceplants\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mother-in-law playing Richie&amp;apos;s Plank Experience faceplants - 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