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Popular culture imagines a laid-back vibe, but surfing was always closer to Lord of the Flies, said Johnny Lockwood, a surfer who has encountered localism at Malibu beaches 40 miles north of Lunada Bay.

The phenomenon began in the 1960s when cheaper, lighter boards and Gidget, a fictional girl surfer popularised in a book, film and TV series, turned surfing into a mainstream sport, producing crowding on the waves.

Outside surfers accused police and the authorities of Palos Verdes Estates, a wealthy town of big houses and lawn sprinklers, of turning a blind eye to thuggishness from well-heeled local surfers.

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