Preliminary autopsy results in for Berry Carter

I didn't say he deserved to die - don't put words in my mouth. But he chose to sleep in a dumpster. Judging by his arrest record and how these homeless guys often act, he was likely passed-out drunk. He was a grown man who made bad choices, and died because of it. He had no business being there anyway - the dumpster belongs to the trash company, and is leased by it's customer. This guy trespassed into a dangerous place, got himself killed, and you want to put the blame on the trash company/driver for not checking the dumster? That's pretty unrealstic don't you think? A few years ago, some bum went into a zoo (Washington D.C., I think) at night. If I remember right, he was going to kill and cook some zoo animal for a meal. Well, he ended up in the polar bear cage and bears are the ones who got a good meal. Was this the zoo's fault? Should they have been checking the animal cages for bums? And before you judge whether I need to go to church, know that I spent 4 years working to help people like this. Here's a little secret - most of them don't want your help. Sure, they'll take your financial assistance, they'll take your food donations and sleep in a shelter when it's really cold out. But they don't want responsibility, don't want jobs, they certainly don't want to stop drinking, and they don't want you or me telling them how they should live their lives. All I'm saying is that you can't place the responsibility for a person's bad decisions on someone else.

Nobody said he deserved to die, but he should have had more sense than to sleep in a dumpster. It is not the responsibility of the drivers to inspect every dumpster before emptying it. What if the bum had walked behind the truck and got run over, would that have been the driver's fault?

AGAIN people like YOU sir Guest dee...are the PROBLEM in this great country...ITS CALLED COMMON SENSE and SELF responsibility...he shouldn't have been in there...it was HIS OWN FAULT...he died horribly...but it was his OWN STUPIDITY that killed him...doesn't matter if he was the mayor or a bum... You act like it is Wastec's responsibility...that couldn't be further from the truth.

You truly expect businesses to absorb the cost of the driver stopping before he empties every single dumpster? Do you have any concept of "Time is money?" That poster may or may not need to go to church - you, however, defintely need to get some economic common sense. Bums freeze to death in Winter, they die of heat stroke in the Summer, they are crushed in garbage trucks and they routinely kill each other over the last ounce of booze or the last cigarette. Violent, premature death is an occupational hazard for these people.