Car Surfing: Dangerous, Deadly ... and Popular Among Teens

Somewhere in the bowels of the MSNBC newsroom, a decision was made on Tuesday to devote considerable coverage to getting to the bottom of a disconcerting juvenile epidemic: car surfing.

That's right, the "fearless gamble" that is "all the rage" among American teenagers, according to NBC News correspondent Kerry Sanders, is an important enough story for a national cable news network to send one of its intrepid reporters to give live reports throughout the morning and into the mid-afternoon.