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A London man is about to be famous and make history for the wrong reasons.
The man who stole a crate of Lucozade while riding a hoverboard could make legal history in the United Kingdom as the first person to be prosecuted for using such a device on the sidewalks.
Forget stealing the Lucozade.
According to a report from The Evening Standard, 19-year-old Omaree Lindsay has been charged with theft and driving a “self-balancing scooter” on a public footpath — which can be prosecuted as an offense under the UK’s Highway Act of 1835. CCTV footage published last week shows Lindsay entering a shop in Mitcham on a hoverboard before leaving with the pack of energy drinks.
Although it sounds strange to prosecute someone under legislation nearly two centuries old, as FullFact points out, the law in question bans any form of “riding on footpaths” and has been brought up to date a number of times since it was instated in the Georgian era.
The first time the law was used in this precedence was to lock up a thief on a bike back in 1879. Then in 2011, a Segway criminal got the law established for him as well.