Florida Man Is Stunned To Find Out His “Truck Don’t Surf”

There's nothing quite like an early-morning walk on the beach. Or if you're into off-roading, taking a drive on the beach.

However, as a rather stunned Florida Man found out, there are rules for this and consequences when those rules are followed.

Especially if your goal appears to be driving your truck into the ocean to see if it can surf.

DATELINE - Volusia County and the Saga of Florida Man Jason Brzuszkiewicz.

Jason's actually from New York. But listen, when in Florida....

I like going for walks on the beach and it doesn't have to be in the summertime. Early morning, maybe it's a little foggy, a crisp late winter morning, maybe a fall morning. Again, you got a little fog coming in. I don't love going down to the shore and doing that.

Well, maybe that's part of what was going on in Brzuszkiewicz's head.

Because what happened was deputies responded to a call to New Smyrna beach a couple of days ago, a little before 9 AM, reports that a vehicle was driving around a closed gate that said "do not enter" and then went on to the beach without paying the toll fee.

When deputies arrived on the scene, Brzuszkiewicz told them he wanted to drive on the beach. And there's actually video of him doing that.

He's a good 15 to 20ft in the water for about 90 seconds before he finally comes to a stop, at which point he tried to turn the vehicle around.

Well, the cops finally did get a hold of him and he said, "It's not my fault the truck don't surf."

The deputy said, but you shouldn't be driving on the beach when all the gates are closed and the sign says do not enter. At which point Brzuszkiewicz allegedly said, "Can I get in trouble for that?"

Yeah, you can get in trouble for that. You can get arrested for that, as a matter of fact, which is exactly what happened to Brzuszkiewicz.

Arrested and facing charges of failing to pay the access fee, he was transported to the Volusia county branch jail with a bond of $200 and the vehicle was also towed.

Again, you can imagine that conversation in jail. "Hey, tough guy. What are you in here for?" "Ummm, it's not my fault my truck don't surf."

MORE EPISODES OF FLORIDA MAN STRIKES AGAIN

It's not enough for me to play music on the radio on WDHA - I also get the urge to grab one of my guitars and play live on a local stage.

For the second consecutive year, my band Dead Äire was invited to open the Light of Day Foundation's Silverball Night of Covers at the legendary Silverball Retro Arcade in Asbury Park.

To kick of the 2024 festivities, we were joined by Joe D'Urso who is the president of the Light of Day Foundation, performing Willie Nile's "One Guitar."

Dead Äire is Tom Kaminski from WCBS 880 on drums, two-time Emmy Award-winning Mike Trinker on bass, and Chris Flynn, Sean Seymour and me on guitars.

Chris and Sean have serious music cred - Chris is part of a duo with Deni Bonet (I've been playing their music a lot on All Mixed Up lately).

Meanwhile, Sean is currently touring with the Richard Lloyd Group (Lloyd, along with the late Tom Verlaine was a founding member of the legendary New York City band Television).

In addition, Chris and Sean also play regularly with the Crash Combo.

Dead Äire has been together since October 2022 when they got together for Cranford's annual Porchfest, an annual family-oriented music festival in town.

Since then, we have gone on to play at the New Jersey Festival of Ballooning, and the Stone Pony in Asbury Park where they opened for the legendary Smithereens.