Vancouver man's first ride on electric skateboard ends with $600 ticketA Vancouver man is “flabbergasted” after his first ride on his new, motorized longboard ended with a $598 fine.
Daniel Dahlberg, 25, was on his way to work, riding a Boosted Board v2 that he’d purchased just two days earlier from West 4th Avenue’s Boarder Labs. After rolling down a hill and coming to a stop at 3rd Avenue and Maple in Kitsilano, a Vancouver police officer on a motorcycle pulled him over, then wrote him a ticket.
“My jaw dropped to the ground and he hands me the ticket and it was for $598,” Dahlberg said. “That’s the most absurd part of everything.” ....
..... “I asked him why,” Dahlberg said. “He said it’s because I had no insurance. So then I asked him, I had no idea I needed it, how do I get it, and he told me that I wasn’t able to get insurance.
More and there is an explanation. I don't say a rational or sensible explanation, but there is an explanation:
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