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US tourist dies 'car surfing' in Puerto Rico

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Police say a U.S. tourist who was pretending to be surfing on the hood of a friend's moving car was killed when he fell and broke his neck in a popular Puerto Rican beach town.

Police spokeswoman Yolanda Hernandez says 29-year-old Long Beach, N.Y., resident Jorge Geysel fell off his friend's Isuzu Trooper as he was "car surfing" along a road in the west coast community...

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