If you lock your knees while standing long enough, you will pass out.
So what you're sayin is that all that money people waste on alcohol daily wasn't necessary??? The bales and bales of marijuana smoked by people in the hopes of laughin themselves to sleep watchin old Sesame Street shows...none of that was necessary? The money spent annually on sleeping medications...prescription strength Ambien...which not only causes a person to pass out, but will also cause some users to sleepdrive places...have not only suicidal thoughts...but also occassionally induces unconscious episodes of homicidal madness...all a person has to do is stand up and lock their knees...no prescription...no side effects...no hangovers...no munchies...what the hell??? Actually I've known about this since I was in my early teens, havin grown up in a military family...attending several parade field functions...usually about as exciting as attending a live game of leapfrog where the contestants are all quadraplegics...however...these functions can be somewhat entertaining if you turn them into a gambling situation...nothing is quite so funny as watching a group of soldiers all standing @ attention and finding that first fallout...most of the time they don't even sway...there might be a momentary head tilt...quite often tho they fall like a tree freshly cut...and after that first one goes...it can have sometimes have a Domino effect...course it's even funnier when you're standing right next to the person who passes out at formation...of course when I was in the military I didn't rely on an individuals tendency to lock knees during guardmount...preferring as it were to assist whenever the opportunity arose...the base I was stationed at was Minot AFB ND. which had a nice little tag associated with it...considering it was over 15 miles from the nearest spot of civilization it was considered a remote base which meant military personnel were allowed to drink alcohol on base at the age of 18...which as one might guess provided a practical joker which enough ammunition to last an entire 4 years. I took it upon myself to take all new guys to the NCO club and get them absolutely blind ass drunk and wasted the night before their first dress blues guardmount...passing out while standing at attention was the least of their worries from that point on...altho it often time helped the cause...I remember on one such evening not only did I get a poor young unsuspecting troop completely inebriated...I helped him stumble his ass back to his barracks room...and proceeded to assist the unconscious individual with the shaving requirements he would find necessary for the following days event...I gently removed just the left side of his mustache...and went a step further by removing just the right eyebrow...needless to say 'Erik' was extremely difficult to get out of bed the following day...he hurriedly dressed in his fresh pressed blues...and without so much as a glance in the mirror headed to work...I had gone ahead of Erik and informed all those attending to keep it under control and not laugh when he entered the building...as we all stood at attention while the Lt conducted inspection most of us were waiting for the events to unfold...needless to say when the Lt approached Erik and started chewing his ass for his appearance Erik naturally locked irhgt into full blown attention...and within what seemed a matter of moments...without so much as a courtesy callout of "Timber"...Erik fell like a Redwood thru the forest...taking out anything and everything in his way...including 2 others who cascaded into the adjoining hall and toppling a small desk and chair!!! It should go without saying that consequences were doled out without so much as an ounce of the humor incorporated in the prank and some of them learned their lesson!!!
