July 14, 2006 Just four weeks ago we wrote about the the Wego Kite Tube and figured it looked like a heap of fun, but reports just in show that about 19,000 Wego Kite Tubes are being voluntarily ...

The Consumer Product Safety Commission is trying to put an end to kite tubing, a sport in which a person soars aloft while tethered to a boat. The agency has issued a recall of kite tubes, saying too ...

LACONIA — Out-of-state injuries and deaths associated with boat-towed "kite tubes" have state officials looking into creating rules that would place restrictions on a product that has been pulled from ...

A 42-year-old woman knocked unconscious on Union Lake on the Fourth of July was kite tubing, a new form of water sport that is both thrilling and, according to some, dangerous. The woman, who has not ...

Regulators have been warning about the risks to those taking part in a new, extreme water sport called kite tubing. Now, a prominent brand of kite tubes is being yanked from the market. The Consumer ...

The Nebraska company SportsStuff is voluntarily recalling 19,000 kite tubes, in light of several injuries, and reports of deaths. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission sent out a warning about ...

Gliding 10 feet or more above the water as they're towed by zipping speedboats, kite tubes resemble nothing so much as flying pizzas or goofy, oversized Frisbees. They're the hottest item in extreme ...

And I'm Melissa Block, reporting the end of a fad maybe before you've ever heard of it. Yesterday the Consumer Product Safety Commission announced a nationwide recall of a product called the Wego Kite ...