Who is responsible if a fool gets himself killed surfing atop subway trains, presumably to impress viewers on social media? According to a lawsuit, taxpayers:

The mother of Daniel Baran, a 19-year-old who died last year while attempting to ride atop a BART train, is suing the transit agency.

The suit, filed Wednesday in San Francisco Superior Court, claims the trains lacked safety mechanisms that would have prevented his death.

No matter what happens, whoever is responsible is not responsible, and the event will be exploited as a pretext for attempted looting.

On a tip from R F.