{"id":166,"date":"2016-02-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-24T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/defranciscolaw.lawblogger.net\/blog\/hoverboard-drama-continues-may-be-seized-or-recalled\/"},"modified":"2017-08-31T18:32:11","modified_gmt":"2017-08-31T22:32:11","slug":"hoverboard-drama-continues-may-be-seized-or-recalled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/hoverboard-drama-continues-may-be-seized-or-recalled\/","title":{"rendered":"Hoverboard drama continues: may be seized or recalled"},"content":{"rendered":"

In our last post we started a discussion on recalls. The www.recalls.gov<\/a> website is a great place to start if you are curious about what recalls are out there. Although the site exists, the big problem is that consumers can\u2019t constantly be hovering on the site waiting for the next dangerous product to pop up on the screen. If you think about it, we buy tons of new products every week, from grocery items to articles of clothing to gasoline. Any product that a consumer can buy has a potential of being dangerous. There\u2019s no way for consumers to constantly know if one of the products they bought over the last decade may eventually harm them.<\/p>\n

Recently a huge issue has come up in regards to hoverboards. These boards, which are self-balancing scooters, were really popular over Christmas. They made it under the tree in many homes in New York and across the nation.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, as reported by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, these hoverboards have been linked to as many as 52 fires so far. The boards have caused more than $2 million in property damage. They have even destroyed two homes.<\/p>\n

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