While many people are wary of hoverboards because there have been a handful of instances of them catching on fire, the real danger is actually just using them. Many children received hoverboards from Santa Claus on Christmas, but eager dads seemed to steal their kids’ toy and take it for a ride. And what a ride it would be! Dads everywhere found out the harsh reality that they aren’t as hip and nimble when riding on one of this year’s hottest toys.
Look at the sheer cockiness of this dad who thinks he’s mastered the hoverboard by riding it for two seconds.
Do you want to wreck the Christmas tree? Because this is how you wreck the Christmas tree.
https://twitter.com/sandrajapandra/status/680606159733002242
When your dad tries to hover board… pic.twitter.com/ORraNgYPk2
— emmaly (@emmaly__) December 25, 2015
https://twitter.com/1alexcam/status/680528661620101124
Don't Hover Board with a puppy in your arms #hoverboard #puppy #fail https://t.co/smMw2FO0AH
— Jason Jonas (@iamjasonjonas) December 23, 2015
https://twitter.com/BeMyValentine13/status/680572339927552000
https://twitter.com/hay4president/status/680487063750361088
MY COUSIN GOT A HOVERBOARD AND MY BROTHER TRIED OH MY GOD pic.twitter.com/1cPxQdTx9S
— ry (@ryan_ewen) December 25, 2015
If y'all aren't having the best Christmas yet, here's a video of my dad on my brothers new hoverboard ππππππ pic.twitter.com/gSmiDYs4y3
— ChristianCabralππ¨ (@Christian_WRX_) December 25, 2015
If my dads not at work next week, this is why πππππ #hoverboardfail pic.twitter.com/sjfkoT4Ijf
— β’livβ’ (@Livvynea) December 25, 2015
https://twitter.com/livvec/status/680453930329989120?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
https://twitter.com/hay4president/status/680487063750361088
https://twitter.com/heathaaa24/status/676919950032924672
first hover board accident :/ pic.twitter.com/ezVGIEJkko
— π±ππΈ πππ²πΊ (@briannatucker23) December 25, 2015
https://twitter.com/sjw109/status/680389401344655360
pls watch my dad on this hoverboard….ππππ pic.twitter.com/DinjJyKsii
— Katie Stanley (@katiems10) December 26, 2015
when your dad gets on a hover board pic.twitter.com/FAZRoJW0ku
— lysβοΈ (@alyssapaige__) December 19, 2015
Hoverboard: 1
Me: 0 pic.twitter.com/WP8cemAnCU— Isaac Barrera (@isaac_barrera24) December 25, 2015
get a hover board they said… pic.twitter.com/umvcnXEV2f
— syd πΌπΌ (@sydneyyhays) December 26, 2015
https://twitter.com/OliviaLombard12/status/680536502061916160
When hover board ruins your Christmas spirit pic.twitter.com/ZvZYbRi05h
— Robbi (@thenamesrobbi) December 25, 2015
https://twitter.com/hayyshimm/status/680438604548694016
https://twitter.com/Judaea17/status/680555812998242304
https://twitter.com/JuliaKelly2001/status/674698944962695174
https://twitter.com/abbydebarr/status/680432236139810817
Dad snapped and broke his wrist falling off the swagway hover board my little siblings got from Santa #MerryChristmasFromTheER
— Je$$ie Lex2tis (@JessLekstutis) December 25, 2015
https://twitter.com/CASSidystenger_/status/680467162037813248
Merry Xmas to u all. Partic my son Max now in hospital in Adelaide having smashed wrist after fall from #hoverboard #yulegetbetter
— Jon Sopel (@jonsopel) December 25, 2015
https://twitter.com/tahdollasign/status/680375768631873536/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
“Hey, I’ve been drinking straight Canadian Club Whiskey all day and I’m 52-years-old and haven’t done an athletic activity in over 20-years, let me hop on the two-wheeled hoverboard that has zero stability and ride around my house that has all kinds of hard and pointy things to smash my dumb skull into and have to be taken to the hospital on Christmas.”
“YAY! Santa got me a hoverboard for Christmas!”
AGGGHHHHHH! I violently fell to the ground and now my eye socket is fractured and my my pinky finger is pointing the wrong way!”
https://www.instagram.com/p/_tkjuDOvDx/
https://www.instagram.com/p/_t2yCzCmWn/
https://www.instagram.com/p/_t-R1JMKL7/
You don’t have to be a dick and shove your friend off their hoverboard, as you have seen, they’ll fall quite easily on their own.
This is getting painful to watch, not nearly as painful as actually breaking your spine like these people in the video, but painful never-the-less.
Don’t worry, Santa can’t handle his hoverboard either.