To Donna Bakaitis, her oldest son didn't die trying to steal copper wire from the Radford Foundry. Instead, she said, he died while doing his best to try to provide for his family, something he had done since he was a teenager.
Christopher Brandon Goad, 24, died shortly after 8 p.m. Sunday at the DeCamp Burn Center at the University of Virginia Health Sciences Center in Charlottesville.
Burned everywhere except his feet Thursday, he clung to life for more than eight hours after being removed from life support about noon Sunday, his family said.
Goad and his stepfather, Stephen Edward Bakaitis, 46, were both severely burned during what police are calling a break-in that went terribly wrong. Donna Bakaitis said Goad used a hacksaw to cut into a live 4,160-volt foundry wire early Thursday morning.
So what do you think about this? Do you support her answer. To me, he was stealing regardless...
2007-07-17 07:40:22 · 8 answers · asked by Josh S 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
It sounds like his step dad was a great role model ( notice he was part of the break in too) and that his mother had horrible taste in men.
There are a lot easier ways of making money- but then you actually have to spend some of your time working.
I don't have any pity here- this was karma- if he wanted to feed his children and teach them responsibility he wouldn't be stealing. If his parents had bothered to teach him to work rather than to steal this wouldn't have happened.
2007-07-17 08:13:49 · answer #1 · answered by tnfarmgirl 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Aside from being a thief, he wasn't very smart ..., ya, I know, if he were smart, he wouldn't be a thief, redundancy with a purpose. Electrical lines carrying that kind of voltage, are either mounted high on a pole or buried deep enough to prevent accidental piercing of the insulating material.
The fact that he "used a hacksaw" is a clear indication that this was not merely an act of salvaging old discarded wire, to recycle and collect the money for the copper (a pre 1982 penny contains about 5 cents worth of copper). I suppose the theory is there, but a wire that size, unless I see both ends of it and know absolutely that it is not live, I'm not touching it ... This is what I used to call common sense, but sadly, common sense just isn't that common anymore.
2007-07-17 07:54:58 · answer #2 · answered by Jim 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Morals are never carved in stone, there isn't a yes or no answer i can give. It all depends on the situation. If this man got that starving loaf of bread to feed his starving family, that would be wrong because he worked hard to get that loaf of bread. If the man was rich would he even notice he was missing a loaf of bread? Morals are not set in stone, manny different factors in our mind help determine our choice. The Bane Has Returned
2016-05-20 15:33:01 · answer #3 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am a cable lineman, and I deal with cable and power all the time.... The theif got what he deserved. Theft is Theft. He could have gotten a job pumping gas if he really wanted to be legit. Lots of people die stealing wire all the time. THATS WHY THEY PAY LINEMAN SO MUCH, THERE ARE RISKS TO THE JOB. So in closing, DON'T STEAL WIRE! YOU WILL DIE!
2007-07-17 07:49:57 · answer #4 · answered by derrickgott007 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
He was stealing. Also it sounds like he died because he did something stupid. Still... that's a terrible way to go that nobody deserves.
2007-07-17 07:46:53 · answer #5 · answered by Michael C 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
If your going to be a thief, you definiatly have to be smarter than cutting a live-wire with a hack saw, and conduct your ways, in a business like manner............
2007-07-17 08:02:45 · answer #6 · answered by DennistheMenace 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some situations are just too sad to judge.
2007-07-17 07:44:17 · answer #7 · answered by CHARITY G 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Stealing is Stealing!!!!!
2007-07-17 07:44:25 · answer #8 · answered by Angela C 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋