Ebay removed this item from their site.
Posted on 01/31/2006 7:01:30 PM PST by amdgmary
A local hospice wants to know who is trying to sell Terri Schiavo's hospital gown on eBay.
The eBay listing claims the gown was owned by Schiavo, the Clearwater woman who died 13 days after being removed from a feeding tube last year after a long court battle.
Most people watched the saga of Schiavo's life and death and saw families hurting. But somewhere in America, one person watched and saw the chance to make a buck.
The listing popped up on eBay Monday with the title, "Terri Schiavo's hospital gown."
The seller claims the gown was worn by Schiavo during the years she lived with severe brain damage. The description goes on to add: "The winner of this macabre auction will also receive the feeding tube that was Schiavo's lifeline during her final days."
The listing was removed from eBay Tuesday morning, but by then hundreds of people had seen it.
"When I first heard about this this morning ... so incredibly tacky," said David Gibbs, the attorney for Schiavo's parents, Bob and Mary Schindler.
Gibbs said he's concerned by the seller's claim the gown was first bought from an employee at Woodside Hospice House in Pinellas Park, where Schiavo passed away last March.
"We will definitely want to know the origin of something like that and we're glad it's been removed from eBay," Louise Cleary of Hospice said. "Any employee who did anything to violate the privacy of our patients and the policies regarding patients would be dismissed. It's just not tolerated."
Some good news in the upsetting story is that eBay reported no one bid on the items.
George Felos, the attorney for Schiavo's guardian, her husband Michael Schiavo, said his first impression is that the sale was a hoax. But it's already proven painful for the Schindlers.
"It's just an added level of hurt for a family that dearly loves Terri," Gibbs said.
Felos said he will wait to see what Hospice does before making his next move.
No doubt Ebay yanked it double-plus quick.
Ping. Ebay listed Terri's nightgown and feeding tube for sale on their site. The items were later removed from ebay.
Ebay removed this item from their site.
It is, however, perfectly acceptable to kill one of our patients if you clear it with Judge Greer.
Michael?
Info on this very sick ebay seller:
http://feedback.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewFeedback&userid=teyla13&iid=
I hope Ebay suspends the seller's account. This person is twisted!
You got it!
I found the following by continuing on the link PM provided. The formatting isn't so great, but if you follow each piece according to the heading, you can figure out that this eBayer is probably from the Tampa area. I doubt it would take much work to actually track this person down, if someone at Woodside really wanted to. I expect very little follow up on their part.
eBay Member User ID History
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teyla13 Aug-02-03 Present
*******@tampabay.rr.com Mar-09-00 Aug-02-03
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There was an earlier thread about this today for any who are interested.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1568837/posts
Thank you!
Could be an interesting thread. They're talking about putting Ted Kennedy's liver on Ebay, if anyone needs a doorstop.
I saw those posts. I must admit I was a bit surprised to see people who claim to be "over" Terri posting there. I wonder why they follow a topic so closely if they had really "moved on". Rusty drapes come to mind.
Completely revolting. People complain about us discussing her murder, and some turd tries to sell her nightgown and feeding tube?!??
How about a shot put??? No wait, that's my liver....
Some people are clearly sick in the head!!
ping...
That made me laugh out loud, just the image of it -- there it goes, 61 feet, a new Harvard record! They could give him a shot glass as a trophy :-)
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