Surfers are easy targets for car theft, and criminals know it. The bad guys always seem to be a step ahead of surfers who stash their keys while surfing.
And even after surfers banded together last year to take down a syndicate that had robbed more than 100 people, criminals apparently are not deterred. Another surfer fell victim to a car thief while he was surfing in Huntington Beach, California last week.
The surfer, Lou Sansevero, stashed his key in a magnetic box under his wheel well around 20th Street and Pacific Coast Highway. When he returned from his surf, the car was gone. Surveillance footage from neighbors showed a man finding the hidden key and driving away in the vehicle…