Russell Crowe left a Virgin flight because he was told he couldn’t bring his hoverboard with him

Hoverboards are all the rage these days — but they're also causing plenty of rage, in more ways than one.

Take actor Russell Crowe, who claims to have gotten off a Virgin flight on Monday night because he couldn't bring his family's hoverboards — what he calls "Segway boards"— aboard the plane.

The fact is, Virgin isn't alone in its policy. Far from it.

As of December, most major airlines don’t allow passengers to take their hoverboards on flights. Delta, American, Southwest, United and others have all banned hoverboards, pointing to their lithium-ion batteries with wattage that’s above the legal permissible limit for airplanes.

Though there have been dozens of injuries and emergency room visits from people simply falling off their hoverboards, the high-wattage batteries inside the vehicles is why so many companies, including Amazon, refuse to do business with them. Despite so many warnings from so many different people and companies, many people continue to buy these devices that are prone to both catching fire and/or exploding.

We don't recommend you buy hoverboards, given their safety issues and their many various public bans. But for those people that already own "Segway boards" like the Crowe family, we do hope you consider your own safety first and foremost, even if that means ditching these hundred-dollar fire hazards just to get on a flight.

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