There’s always something new to surf. Boards were long, then short, then really short. We built them out of koa, then balsa, then foam. We paddled, we towed, we foiled. It’s all part of a long line of evolution in wave-riding technology, in which the staggering variety of innovations is only matched by the breadth of ways surfers find to constantly complain about them.
Now, a new surf craft has come upon us: the truck.
The innovation took place on New Smyrna Beach, a surf break known for being the best place in America to get bitten in the face by a shark. On the morning of February 6, Jason Brzuszkiewicz drove around a closed gate marked “DO NOT ENTER” and directly onto the beach, according to the Volusia county Sheriff’s department on X (New Smyrna normally allows vehicles to access the beach, but on this day it was closed due to high tides). The tweet was accompanied by footage of Brzuszkiewicz’s white truck gleefully frolicking in the shorebreak.
The adventure was short-lived, however, as the video then cuts to body-cam footage of Brzuszkiewicz’s arrest. “It’s not my fault the truck don’t surf,” he says, while seated on the sand. The arresting officer was decidedly unamused, perhaps unaware of the Neil Armstrong-like leap the man had taken for our sport.
Brzuszkiewicz was charged with failure to pay vehicular access fee, per the Sheriff’s department tweet. CBS 12 elaborated that he was taken to Volusia Beach Jail with a $200 bond and had his vehicle towed.
