Alaska dentist rode hoverboard while performing procedure, prosecutors say

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Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/12/06/alaska-dentist-rode-hoverboard.html

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It’s never a good sign when your attorney says “In my client’s defense, he is a fucking moron.”

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OK. It was terrible, and he deserves whatever the trial brings him, but I’m kinda impressed by his agility and balance

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I think the legal terminology is “Dude, you done fucked up.” Was this on a dare or something?

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So he ain’t no Marty McFly.

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No, it was done on a hoverboard.

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I mean…who among us has not performed a tooth extraction while riding a hoverboard?

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Not cool.

It sounds more like “totally radical”!

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Steve Martin, Bill Murray

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Many have done so, most without any dental tools or any patient other than themselves

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hand-up-cumberbatch

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Right? I was like, did he mess it up? No?

Then definitely reckless endangerment, but also impressive.

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Wait, so either he extracted her tooth on a hoverboard and her son went there for a teeth cleaning, or he sedated her son for a teeth cleaning and then she decided to get her tooth extracted by the same guy. Was this the only dentist they knew?

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One of those small towns with the dental office, tanning salon and travel agency all in the same business.

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It was Anchorage, where about a third of Alaska’s population lives

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I was just being a wise-ass. I agree with your questioning of the timeline. Although, now that I think of it wasn’t she shown the video of the hoverboard incident at a later date? Maybe she went in and had no idea yet what happened. Sent her son in and saw he was sedated unnecessarily. Then later was shown the video and asked if she authorized the use of the hoverboard during her procedure?

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I had to look at the dateline to double check, because it could have been

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The only dentists I met while living in Alaska were there hiding from war crimes tribunals.

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That’s not right. The ADA recommends hoverboard riding only for crown and braces placement. Extraction is best done on a tricycle.

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