# Only in Scotland: police stop man on space hopper

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [January 6, 2015, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/only-in-scotland-police-stop-man-on-space-hopper/709117 "2015-01-06T12:02:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2015, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/only-in-scotland-police-stop-man-on-space-hopper/709117/1 "2015-01-06T12:02:13Z")

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Those wacky Dundonians! 🙂

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> [@BBC](#):
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> Police pulled over a man riding a space hopper through a Dundee underpass in the early hours of New Year’s Day…
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> One witness said the man “looked very drunk” as he was chased down the tunnel by officers.

]([Space hopper man caught on dual carriageway - BBC News](http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-30681476))

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**Author:** ![ratatoskK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ratatoskk/32/2987_2.png) [@ratatoskK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ratatoskK)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2015, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/only-in-scotland-police-stop-man-on-space-hopper/709117/2 "2015-01-06T12:55:47Z")

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For those outside the UK, [Definition of space hopper](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_hopper) 🙂

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**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2015, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/only-in-scotland-police-stop-man-on-space-hopper/709117/3 "2015-01-06T13:56:09Z")

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> [@ratatoskK](#):
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> For those outside the UK, [Definition of space hopper](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_hopper) 🙂

Thanks, I had visions of something very different.

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**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2015, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/only-in-scotland-police-stop-man-on-space-hopper/709117/4 "2015-01-06T14:07:41Z")

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I pictured a hovercraft of some sort.

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**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2015, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/only-in-scotland-police-stop-man-on-space-hopper/709117/5 "2015-01-06T14:17:01Z")

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Pardon me sir, do you have a permit for those eels?

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**Author:** ![Ken001](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/43a26b/32.png) [@Ken001](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ken001)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2015, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/only-in-scotland-police-stop-man-on-space-hopper/709117/6 "2015-01-06T14:22:49Z")

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Oh, he was Hungerian?