2015 was the year of the hoverboard. Except it wasn’t. It was a year where anybody and everybody created new boards for us to play with and just called them “hoverboards.” Unfortunately for us that led to a complete boom of people zipping up and down sidewalks everywhere and hoverboard fail videos popping up left and right.
But of all the viral, hilarious hoverboard fails, the newest trend involving these sinister toys is that they’re catching fire. Literally. For example, Delvon Simmons was just cruising around on his $600 falsely named toy of death in Hollywood when it burst into flames. “The wheels locked up. Next thing I knew, I was airborne,” Simmons said. “Face on the concrete. My legs are so sore. Thank goodness my hands went down first. Next thing I know. I see sparks flying, an explosion happening.”
It turns out fires like this aren’t too uncommon with the new hoverboards. Which leads me to believe there’s no technical explanation for it all – it’s karma. It’s our punishment for calling the damn things hoverboards before inventing something that actually flies.
