VIDEO: Face of Nek Nomination changed for good

NEK Nomination, the internet drinking craze spread by social media which hit the headlines in early 2014 has been transformed. Its thought to have originated in Australia but in some parts of the world and certainly in the north Durban region, the the craze, that police have warned can be dangerous, has been turned into a dare to be good craze.

A popular dare that has gone viral in the last few months has been transformed into a dare to do good rather than down a drink following a number of deaths world-wide.

Nek Nomination has taken the social network world by storm. Also known as neck and nominate, neknomination or neck nomination, is an online drinking game.

According to Wikipedia, the original parameters of the game required the participant to film themselves drinking a pint of an alcoholic beverage, usually beer, in one gulp and upload the footage to the web.

The participant then nominates two others to do the same, although a third nomination has become commonplace. The nominated person has to complete the task within 24 hours and then nominate someone else again.

As the game spread, it escalated with nominees performing the challenge in more extreme circumstances by drinking stronger alcohol or by performing dangerous activities either during or immediately after they gulped up their drink.

But a South African man changed the face of Nek Nomination forever by deciding not to down a drink.

UK newspaper, The Telegraph, reported that Brent Lindesque from Johannesburg received a Nek Nomination from a friend in Australia via Facebook. The paper said Brent decided not to bow to pressure to get drunk, instead starting his own challenge, a challenge for change.

Brent then took to the streets where he filmed himself handing a sandwich, chocolate and juice to a beggar at an intersection. He then, as in the original rules, nominated the next person to do good.

Thousands of South Africans and people from across the world have already done their bit of good, spurring on others to follow in their footsteps. The craze has even seen some major fast food outlets take on the dare to do their good deed for the year.

Some daring neknominations carried out:

1. In an attempt to “outdo” all previous competitors, Isaac Richardson, 20, downed a lethal cocktail of wine, whisky, vodka, and lager as part of his Nek Nomination challenge. Richardson, a hotel receptionist, stumbled to the bathroom to vomit, after ingesting the deadly concoction in a backpacker hostel in Woolwich, London. Once in the bathroom, he fell unconscious and was pronounced dead shortly thereafter.

2. Inky Ralph, 21, road her horse into a Tesco grocery store as part of her Nek Nomination challenge. Footage on YouTube shows Ralph riding her horse into the St. Helen Auckland Tesco in County Durham. Shocked staff and shoppers watch as she’s confronted by a security guard while she downs a Pepsi Max. She then turns to the camera to nominate a friend to complete their own challenge, as well as the security guard before leaving the store.

3. Lance corporal James Steel, 25, who represented the 3rd Battalion, Parachute Regiment at Margaret Thatcher’s funeral has been filmed downing a beer with two goldfish while wearing a pink swimsuit.

In a YouTube video, Steel is shown with drawn-on mustache and beard in pink swimsuit thanking friend Jimmy Dunn for the nomination.

4. In a YouTube video, 19 year-old Rebecca Dagley took off her raincoat to reveal lingerie before downing can of beer in the fruit and vegetable aisle at Asda in Leicester. She then passed the Nek Nomination challenge onto three friends.

5. In his YouTube video, Aaron Johnson mashes a cocktail of four mice, grasshoppers and their larvae, a spider, vodka, lager and milk in a blender. After downing the rancid concoction, he spits the mice bones into the sink as friends off camera cheer wildly.

SOURCE: www.oddee.com/?