This is a little effed up. Lets say you bought a used barbecue. Lets also suppose that there was a severed leg inside it. Would you
A) call the cops, have them investigate and immediately discard the rank barbecue
B) call the cops and try to get the leg back from the morgue because you want to charge people to look at a rotting leg in your barbecue.
I'm pretty firmly in the A) camp myself, but apparently not everyone wold be. Like Shannon Whisnant, who recently purchased a barbecue smoker and, he contends, everything inside it at auction. Of course, the leg's original owner also feels he has a claim to it because, well its his fucking leg. Before you go passing judgement on poor one legged John Wood, hear me out. He didn't intend to sell his leg in a barbecue but, you know, things happen. He started out storing it in the freezer, but they shut off his electric so he put it in the next best place he could think of. No, we're not to the barbecue yet. "He hung it on a fence post in his front yard." Yeah, that's totally cool with your neighbors, right? But after a little while he lost his house and threw the leg into the smoker which he then sent to storage. And then he couldn't make rent on the storage unit, so they auctioned his stuff off, leg and all. It could happen to anyone.
There's a lot of things I could say about this but mostly I'm wondering: why the hell would you buy a barbecue that smells like it has a rotting limb inside it?
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