University of Oregon latest to ban hoverboards

If you're looking to make your own viral music video with choreographed hoverboard moves, hopefully you weren't planning to film it on the University of Oregon campus.

On Monday, the Eugene university issued a campus-wide ban on hoverboards, citing numerous reports of fires and injuries. The school is one of the latest to ban the boards: Oregon State University banned them from campus dining facilities and dormitories earlier this month, and dozens of colleges throughout the country have issued similar bans or restrictions.

Last week, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission announced it is investigating dozens of fires involving hoverboards.

The University of Oregon has asked students with the boards to put them in a temporary storage facility until they can be removed from campus.

The ban also extends outside of Eugene, including all university owned buildings in Portland and Charleston.

The university may reconsider the ban if manufacturers improve the safety of the boards, it said in a statement.

Until then, no choreographed hoverboard dances to Justin Bieber songs on campus.

-- Anna Marum

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