Help - Moral dilemma

[Tony Weisse]

After ten years it's time to say farewell to my old pal (and sometime nemesis), the Brinkmann Smoke 'N Grill (aka - ECB, but that seems so harsh at this juncture). Rather than merely dispose of him, I was going to put Brinky at the curbside with a "Free to a Good Home" sign around his neck. And hence my dilemma.

Is it okay to pillage a few parts before he moves to his new home (assuming anyone is daring enough to take him)? I looked but couldn't find whether he had checked the "organ donor" box on his driver's license. And I can't find the key to his safe deposit box to read his will. In some respects we had a close relationship, but we never really discussed this specific topic.

Would this even be fair to his new keeper? I guess it's like getting a dog from the humane society in that you're required to neuter them within a reasonable time after adoption, right? I mean, everyone knows that if it's free there's got to be a catch somewhere.

Come on, everyone. I really need your advice on this one.

 

[Jim Knight]

If you're trying to give away a used item which (in the opinion of a lot of people) was almost worthless when it was new, at least leave it intact or otherwise throw it in the city dump.

Good luck,
Jim

 

[Mark Etheridge]

I'm afraid I have to disagree with Jim (apologies Jim). I have an ECB that my dad gave me. It's plenty old and I only used it once or twice before I "saw the light" and had to get me a WSM. Anyway, I've salvaged the grates off of it and would claim the pans if they would have been useful.

If you can use it, I say keep it.
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Mark WAR EAGLE!!

 

[Keri C]

Keep the grates and pans, and donate the shell to the local junior high science class to be used as a housing for homemade rocket experimentation...

Someone in one of the small school districts around here supposedly did that. I never heard the results, though.

Keri C
Smokin on Tulsa Time