is it immoral ...........

[wakou]

Yuk! Families can be very stupid, no doubt trying to do the best, but Jeez, If I had had heart problems, and came out of Hospital to find that some well-meaning git had sold my bikes, I would probably have another heart attack, or be arrested for disturbing the peace....... Recovery from heart problems involves exercise, and cycling can be among the best low-impact work that anyone could prescribe. ..I am angry just thinking about this.....

 

[Arch]

I had a heart attack last week while out on the bike and I am due to have a triple bypass on the 5th of August. I think locking the bikes to something solid and hiding the key may be a good idea!
Nigel

All the best for the op and speedy recovery!

The OP does sound a bit iffy. If the guy knew and gave permission fair enough, but... I suppose if it was a very bad stroke, family might assume he'd never be able to cycle again, but that's big assumption, and he should still give consent - unless he's incapable of that even. Still, it seems a bit mercenary....

 

[Night Train]

When I came off my bike, a local tradesman scooped it up, put it in his van and took it away.

A few months later when I was out of 'orspital and recovering he still had it for me tucked away safe and dry in some store-room.

I've done that. A chap had a clipless moment opposite my office in London and fell over fully clipped in.
I called the ambulance for him and then took his bike in for safe keeping in my office.
He fractured his pelvis and was unable to ride for over six months.
A few months later he was able to send his brother in with a thank you card and to collect his bike.

 

[MarkF]

Immoral! Even I waited till the owner died.......................all things come to he who waits.


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[PaulB]

It is immoral. No question.

 

[Arch]

It's certainly an odd way to behave, to my mind. I think many, if not most, of us would shy away from selling a relative's stuff even for a while after they'd died, unless perhaps there was some very pressing financial reason, or the person had specifically asked that stuff be sold before or after they died.

 

[Night Train]

I think it would be ok if the person had made arrangements that their stuff should be sold, maybe to pay for health care costs, or specialist treatment but that would be very different to them not knowing about stuff being sold.

I have a lot of 'stuff' belonging to my Dad that he has said is mine to do with as I wish. Even there I would check with him before disposing of, or selling, any of it and making sure he was happy with what I was getting for it.

 

[Saluki]

I truly hope that the chap recovers and batters his family for selling his bikes.
I had a bike 'sold' for me when I was in America for a few months. I was not a happy bunny.

 

[Night Train]

I after I left London my Dad sold my MIG welder and BOC gas bottle. He denies it but it wasn't there when I went back to collect it when they were moving up to Manchester! I wasn't happy either.

 

[compo]

I was tempted by one of the bikes, mentioned it on here in fact, but when the OP told me the full story behind the sale I decided against bothering.

 

[Arch]

It's funny how people's standards vary. My Mum wouldn't dream of doing some stuff without consulting my sister and I - she recently agreed to sell a small portion of her garden to the chap living at the back, who wanted a bigger garden himself. She was most careful to ask us both for our opinions - neither of us live there any more, but I suppose she felt it's our inheritance, although I don't look on it at all, I was really pleased she could get a few quid and lose a bit of garden that wasn't doing much and just made work for her.

She also recently had a fir tree in the garden taken down, because it was getting too big. It was one I'd grown from one of those stocking filler "Grow your own Christmas Tree" kits, about 25 years ago. But she asked me if it was OK to take it down first. Once again, I was quite happy, it's her garden!

I can't imagine her doing something like in the OP, and neither can I imagine doing it to her.

 

[MarkF]

It's funny how people's standards vary. My Mum wouldn't dream of doing some stuff without consulting my sister and I

Everybody's different, I came home from school at 14 to find new occupants in my home, my father had neglected to tell anybody he'd bought another house in case my mother tried to stop him. When he died my mother wanted rid of his "stuff" straight away, I fully understood and helped her de-clutter and move into the future, I can''t understand folk who want and keep stuff as "reminders".

 

[ColinJ]

Selling people's possessions while they are ill is not on, unless they ask for it to be done.

It's funny how people's standards vary. My Mum wouldn't dream of doing some stuff without consulting my sister and I

I knew a woman whose mother had the daughter's dog put down while she was out of the country, just because she didn't like the way it behaved! (As in - it didn't immediately do as it was told, rather than it being dangerous.)

 

[ianrauk]

They sold yet?

 

[rich p]

They sold yet?

Yep, I got 'em!