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Shoplifting On Hoverboards Is the Future of Lazy Crime

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Auto-balancing skateboards, incorrectly but widely known as hoverboards, are this year’s must-have novelty toys for people bored of their selfie sticks. But it would seem they also have use for shoplifters who can’t be bothered to walk.

https://www.facebook.com/0/videos/1011514835572155/

London’s Metropolitan Police published a videoof a young male shoplifting a case of Lucozade energy drink from a supermarket in south-west London. The crime is not significant in any way, apart from that the suspect rolls in and makes his escape on an LED-illuminated hoverboard. Welcome to 2015, everyone.

https://gizmodo.com/hoverboards-keep-catching-on-fire-and-the-government-wa-1747170674

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