[VancouverG88]

The title says it

http://thenextweb.com/apple/2011/06/02/chinese-student-reportedly-sells-his-kidney-to-buy-an-ipad-2/

"We encounter some pretty bizarre stories here at The Next Web, but sometimes one comes along that just makes us say…WTF?

The Global Times has reported that a 17-year old student in the Anhui province in eastern China had one of his kidneys surgically removed so he could afford to buy an iPad 2.

The high school freshman – called ‘Zheng’ – contacted a kidney-selling agent on the Internet, who offered to pay him 20,000 yuan (about $3k (USD)/£2k (GBP) ) for one of his kidneys. The operation was carried out in Chenzhou on 28th of April. The report states that he returned home with a laptop and an iPhone, so it’s not clear whether this is a typo, or he had a change of heart as to the gadgets he wanted. And it’s a reasonable guess that he had a little money left over after his purchases.

Zheng’s mother, suspicious of how he had acquired his new gadgets, reported the matter to local police who have thus far been unable to contact the agents in question. The hospital where the operation took place apparently isn’t qualified to carry out organ transplants, and it has denied any connection with the kidney removal operation. It also added that its urology department is contracted to a businessman in Fujian.

Shanghai Daily quote the boy as saying: “I wanted to buy an iPad 2 but could not afford it. A broker contacted me on the Internet and said he could help me sell one kidney for 20,000 yuan.” "

[Supafly]

kids will be kids....just like girls in surrey and langley.....will do anything for blow.

[originalhypa]

I'd buy a kidney for 20,000 yuan.
Last time a guy I know checked, it was $250k usd for a kidney from the Mayo clinic.

Good news though, install is free!
:fuckyea:

[TheKingdom2000]

wow, this kid got ripped off.
$3K US for a kidney? Those go for at least $20K on the black market don't they?

[LsquareD]

Time to buy some lower bowl Stanley Cup Final tickets!

:troll:
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[shenmecar]

his mom must be proud.

[RacePace]

wonder what he's going to sell next year when the iPad 3 comes out, and the year after that for iPad 4

[Energy]

What a dumbass. Guess he values toys more than his own body.

[freakshow]

What a dumbass. Guess he values toys more than his own body.Yeah, because we never see that in north american culture :rolleyes:

[flagella]

A couple of months later the agency calls up the same kid asking him if he wants to offer his lung for an iPad 3.

[b0unce. [?]]

i'd sell a kidney to watch the stanley cup finals.

[Shorn]

my friend is going to game 7 if it happens.. so jealous.

[Vale46Rossi]

;7457236']i'd sell a kidney to watch the stanley cup finals.


I got tickets.


Let's trade.

[shawn79]

tickets arent even out yet, unless your a dd and buy ur way into the finals:whistle:

[Vale46Rossi]

tickets arent even out yet, unless your a dd and buy ur way into the finals:whistle:

i bought a package from a season holder.

all home games.

[BrRsn]

I'd give up a kidney for a 2012 WK2 SRT8.
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[The_AK]

Winner

[twitchyzero]

at least he consented to this
better than waking up and feeling ill because you were robbed of your organs

[Razor Ramon HG]

His health is reportedly deteriorating.

[civic_rice]

I'd sell a kidney for a night with megan fox

[DC5-S]

Loosing a kidney takes like 30 or so years off your life I heard. Stupid kid I don't feel any pity
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[TheKingdom2000]

The only organ I would give up is half my liver since that shit can regenerate.
Other than that... hellllll no

On another note, my buddy just got his liver checked because he drinks a lot and it's functioning at 25% below the normal values for his age. So those of you who drink a lot. I suggest getting checked out!

[orange7]

I'd sell a kidney for a night with megan fox

just one night? :hotbaby:

[Apparition]

I call bullshit on this one; a kid going all the way from Anhui to Hunan for an operation to take out his kidney when there are numerous other shady ones in Anhui already? I love it when people use random Chinese city names cause no one knows where they are. It's like me telling a local Chinese here that yep, I buy and sell snow down in Whitehorse, it's sweltering hot next to Cuba where Canada setup its colony back in the 1200s....

The sad things is that the media has smeared the Chinese people enough so that we believe anything they say these days. The worst offenders are inside China, the ones who write English pieces, the more they exaggerate, the more ooooOooos and Aaaahs and WOWs they get from the gwai los living in their country and shake their heads at the barbarism.

Then again I could be wrong and have no pity on the kid or the parents that never spent time to teach their kid real values.

[StylinRed]

wow, this kid got ripped off.
$3K US for a kidney? Those go for at least $20K on the black market don't they?

i think you can buy them for like 30k in India something around there they did a documentary on it on BBC; who go on to say the subsequent medical bills, loss of employment due to recovery time etc pretty much eat up the money they get out of it


Loosing a kidney takes like 30 or so years off your life I heard. Stupid kid I don't feel any pity
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no it doesn't


there's a slight risk he can die within the first 3 months though

[LiquidTurbo]

Upon reading this story I gave my kidneys a hug and thanked them for not giving renal failure.
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[twitchyzero]

The only organ I would give up is half my liver since that shit can regenerate.
Other than that... hellllll no


One can be born with a single kidney and not even know it

Liver cells have an extremely long turn-over rate (i think they take decades) so no, that would be as bad as killing brain cells

[shawn79]

I rather pull a robbery and risk going to jail for 1-2 yrs, than trading my organ for an electronic device which will be worth nothing in 2 yrs

[shawn79]

there's a slight risk he can die within the first 3 months though

burry him and his ipad2 together :alone:

[2damaxmr2]

What an idiot.

[Slifer]

This reminds me of one of the Southpark episode where Cartman buys an Ipad.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yEb6HCG7ec

[.Kev.]

I'd sell mine for 200k flat cash and a new car

[Jegz]

Kid not feeling too well
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/gadgetreviews/chinese-boy-trades-kidney-in-exchange-for-ipad-2-regrets-it/25254

[Shorn]

what a dumbass.. seriously.

[xilley]

thats china
"wasn’t actually qualified to remove his kidney in the first place"
"kind broker who arranged the trade was sadly also the kind of organ broker who keeps his phone in a perpetually off state"