Who was responsible for the goat eating the money in That Darn Kid? Hawkeye, Klinger or Rizzo?
I wanna hear your personal opinions on who's truly responsible for why the camp lost their salaries to that goat.
The post that had me make this post in the first place was asking the worst thing that Klinger did while at the 4077 and someone replied with him letting the goat eat the pay meant for the other residents in That Darn Kid! and people were making counter points to that argument.
Points and arguments to be made:
Was it the fault of Hawkeye?
- It can be argued that it's his role to make sure to pass around the pay in a timely manner and he could've simply told Rizzo to go to the side to count his money so he could take care of the next person in line rather than let him hog up precious time long enough for the choppers to arrive, the others were even yelling at Hawkeye to remove him and he failed to do so.
Was it the fault of Klinger?
- A lot of people pointed out that Klinger shouldn't have left the money in the office unsupervised due to security issues and blame him for the goat eating the money, despite him making the effort to tie the goat outside and not thinking that it would chew through the rope, however it is still his job to lock up the office and he failed to do so.
Was it the fault of Rizzo?
- (While I could make a whole paragraph essay on why I hate this little Cajun cracker I'm not going to, I'm going to try and be as unbiased as possible when making this assessment) Rizzo was the main cause of the holdup in payment getting handed out in the first place due to counting his money too slowly but should we really get mad at him for being a slow counter? Not everybody can count as fast as an auctioneer speaks so we shouldn't hold that against him. Especially knowing that it's not his fault that he's not that well educated, as he explained he couldn't read too well in the episode Death Takes a Holiday.