New York City Bans Those Non-Hovering “Hover”boards

The same New York City that attempted to ban Big Gulps because you can’t be trusted with your own soda intake, now has turned it’s focus to the other menace plaguing society: non-hovering “hover”boards.

That’s right, those little versions of Segways but with smaller wheels, no handle bars, and infinite amounts of hip-hop riders, are now banned from usage in public because NYC clearly hates fun.

According to Reason.com:

“Someone caught riding a hoverboard in public could be subject to a $200 fine, the New York Daily News reported last week. An NYPD spokesman told Time magazine hoverboards are illegal on NYC sidewalks because they are motor vehicles that can’t be registered.

In the nanny state, of course, you can only have things the government knows how to register and license. When new products come along—so new they don’t exist within a previous level of government regulation, classification or control—they simply cannot be.

Innovation be damned. The future be damned.”

That’s not stopping people from riding them, much less, selling them.

“At The Board Store on W. 8th St., owner Jay Isaac told the New York Post that he’s already sold 3,000 hoverboards (at $500 a pop) in just a month of doing business. Macy’s famous Manhattan flagship store gives more than 20 feet of retail space to the futuristic personal transport machines, the paper reported.”

But in this world of nanny liberals who use government to dictate every minutia of our modern lives, nothing makes them happier than NEW LAWS OUTLAWING THINGS.

“One member of City Council, Andy King, D-Bronx, wants to propose a bill outlawing hoverboards.

“People won’t be walking or exercising their lungs” if hoverboards are “seen as a new form of transportation,” he told the Post.

Don’t even bother asking what he thinks about the cars, trucks, taxis, subways, city buses, horse-drawn carriages, elevators, escalators, airplanes, trains, boats, helicopters and ferries that move people all over New York City every single day.

In King’s ideal city, everyone walks and, probably, has to license their feet with City Hall.”

Exit thought by Bernie Sanders’ grandson…