These Confiscated Counterfeit Hoverboards Do Not Have a Bright Future

US Customs and Borders Protection has seized over 16,000 counterfeit hoverboards. The trendy death-wheelies are sitting in a warehouse in Chicago awaiting processing. Since they can’t be sold, they’ll be destroyed.

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Of course, literally every hoverboard could be called “counterfeit” on the grounds that they don’t FREAKING HOVER, but that battle has been fought and lost.

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That’s 16,000 small housefires, mercifully avoided. Somewhere, Russell Crowe sheds a single tear.

Update 2:30pm: “They will ultimately get destroyed,” US Customs and Borders Protection public affairs officer Kris Grogan told Gizmodo.

Images: US Customs and Borders Protection Flickr