Welp, New York City Bans The ‘Hoverboard’
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Your holiday expectations might have just gotten a lot less exciting.
This summer the “motorized skateboard” a.k.a the Hoverboard, became all the rage with celebrities from Kendall Jenner to Wiz Khalifa and more — eventually trickling down to the streets of Brooklyn and across the world. A number of kids had the popular Hoverboards, ranging anywhere from $300 to close to $1,600, at the top of their Christmas list. Bad news, if you were planning to go gliding with you friends down Flatbush Avenue on December 26th, New York City has officially banned the hoverboard.
“Hoverboards are prohibited by New York state law since they are considered motor vehicles that cannot be registered with the Department of Motor Vehicles,” a spokesperson for the New York City Police Department told Dailymail. To put it plainly NYC sees the gliding machines as “motorized scooters” that you pretty much need a driver license for.
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The city’s 26th Precinct in Harlem tweeted a warning earlier this morning to citizens, “Be advised that the electric #hoverboard is illegal as per NYC Admin. Code 19-176.2,” but was quickly deleted. Maybe because they don’t want you to know if a police officer catches you riding one, you could receive a fine anywhere up to $500. Cha-Ching in their pockets.
As for the law on using hoverboards in rest of US is not entirely clear, but 45 states are said to permit “electric personal assistive mobility devices.” Yet if you live in the UK, they happen to be banned only in public areas.
If you already purchased those motorized scooters for your kids, time to make a trip back to the store.
Did New York just become boring or nah?
