Breaking news: students will now be found walking on campus. As the New York Police Department has waged war against hoverboards, UK has followed suit with a temporary ban on the most explosive holiday gift.

For the uninformed, a hoverboard is a self-balancing, two-wheel, motorized board, like a present day Razor scooter. However, does the UK administration not understand the fad of hoverboards, or is the “2015 must have” really dangerous?

“Based upon University of Kentucky safety standards and recent instances of batteries from electronic skateboards and self-balancing devices bursting into flames, all hoverboards and similar devices are temporarily banned on campus, effective immediately,” Blair Hoover, a UK spokeswoman, said on UKNow. “All students, faculty and staff must leave these devices at an off-campus location.”

UK joins more than a dozen other universities in banning the boards. From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to Kean University in New Jersey, campuses have prohibited the use and charging of hoverboards inside residence halls and on campus.

“We didn’t expect to have this problem until it started becoming a national issue,” UK Fire Marshal Greg Williamson said. “At this point most of them are shipped from overseas. They have not been regulated and there are no agencies throughout the United Kingdom and the U.S. that have any control over how these things are manufactured.”

Throughout past semesters, students increasingly have used hoverboards on and around campus. Whether they are a fad, or the new, slightly more attractive Segway, hoverboards are dangerous and have consumers worried.

“Hoverboards do not have a standard,” said Patty Davis, press secretary for U.S. Product Costumer Safety. “A safety standard is needed to increase the safety of this product.”

Hoverboards’ popularity has been growing steadily, and they have especially picked up within the last months of 2015. Even UK royalty John Calipari tweeted a video of himself trying to hoverboard with the caption, “Old people should not try this.”

“We recommend wearing safety gear,” Davis said. “The bottom line is, you can easily fall off a hoverboard.”

While hoverboards seem like a fun way to roll into 2016, the boards are dangerous and are literally becoming “hot off the shelves.” Students need to stand behind UK’s temporary ban. And let’s be real, the walk from the W.T. Young Library to White Hall isn’t that far.

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