A shoplifter has created legal history by also becoming the first person to be convicted of riding a hoverboard on the street.
CCTV footage showed Omaree Lindsay cruising into a Co-op on a black self-balancing board with blue lights underneath.
Heading straight to the drinks aisle he picked up a crate of Lucozade, tucked it under his arm before he turned on his (w)heels and left the store without paying.
Before he made his exit he even stopped and pirouetted as two customers walked towards him - with the footage of the brazen theft from the Co-op in Streatham Road, Mitcham, soon causing a stir.
Lindsay, 19, appeared in the dock at Croydon Magistrates' Court on Tuesday, and, as well as theft, he found himself facing a charge of illegally driving a motor vehicle - the hoverboard - on the pavement.
He admitted both September 6 offences, and the Crime Prosecution Service confirmed to the Standard he was the first person to be convicted over using a hoverboard.
Earlier this month, police released the video in a bid to trace the identity of the thief leading Lindsay to give himself up following the huge publicity that followed.
He was arrested and subsequently charged, becoming the first person to enter the dock charged with illegally driving the motorised hoverboard on the pavement.
District Judge Karen Hammond gave him an interim driving ban because he may get a full disqualification, before giving him conditional bail until his sentencing.
Lindsay, of Croydon, refused to speak to reporters as he left court.
He is due to attend Croydon Magistrates' Court on Tuesday for sentencing.
In October, the Crown Prosecution Service published guidelines from the Department of Transport, which said riding self-balancing scooters on the pavement, including hoverboards and "monopods", was an offence under the 1835 Highway Act.
