Lives lost ‘car surfing’ or ‘ghost riding’ linked to videos

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It’s called ‘car surfing’ -- a name that describes exactly what some teenagers are doing -- using car-as-surfboard while it’s moving and sometimes even hanging on to the sides or by a rope. A study in the Journal of Neurosurgery looked at the rate of injuries over several years and found an increase in fatalities which occurred from 2004 to 2005 -- the same time a popular video game, Grand Theft Auto, San Andreas and the YouTube videos were published on the topic.

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