Chinese boy trades kidney in exchange for iPad 2, regrets it
Summary: Want an iPad 2 but lack the funds? Do what this Chinese teenager did and sell your kidney to buy one.
There are Apple fans, and then there are real Apple fans.
Count 17 year-old Chinese student "Zheng" as a member of the latter camp. Zheng is the new owner of a brand new iPad 2, which the Anhui Province resident received through the unlikeliest of means: By trading one of his own kidneys.
Both The Global Times and Shanghi Daily report the story, which begins when Zeng is contacted online by a bona fide organ broker. Zheng, clearly enticed by the notion of finally owning an iPad 2, underwent the surgery on April 28th, exchanging the extracted organ for 22,000 yuan ($3393).
Suffice it to say that Zheng's mom wasn't happy with the trade, and made honest maternal efforts to get the police to help retrieve her son's irreplacable body part. No dice, of course, because the kind broker who arranged the trade was sadly also the kind of organ broker who keeps his phone in a perpetually off state.
Now, Zheng, stricken with sickness after the surgery, regrets his decision, especially after finding out that the hospital where he stayed wasn't actually qualified to remove his kidney in the first place.
Now the question is, are there any apps for searching for kidney donors?
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RE: Chinese boy trades kidney in exchange for iPad 2, regrets it
LOL!
:)
RE: Chinese boy trades kidney in exchange for iPad 2, regrets it
RE: Chinese boy trades kidney in exchange for iPad 2, regrets it
@Aerowind
Brain
That's easy, just name it Abi-normal
RE: Chinese boy trades kidney in exchange for iPad 2, regrets it
I agree with you on all accounts, brain and kidney! Well said!
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RE: Chinese boy trades kidney in exchange for iPad 2, regrets it
Huh???
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RE: Chinese boy trades kidney in exchange for iPad 2, regrets it
Can't believe you have nothing better to do but criticize a very unfortunate and bad decision. I'm sure there is more to this story than told...like how financially stricken his family may be. Why else would he be selected. Very SAD, not funny at all.
Really, that's your argument?
How can you come up with that? If he is in such financial dire need, why the heck is he buying an iPad2? take the money and feed your family and we wouldn't know anything about it. Not sad... not funny, but certainly not sad, just STUPID!
RE: Chinese boy trades kidney in exchange for iPad 2, regrets it
RE: Chinese boy trades kidney in exchange for iPad 2, regrets it
I think most people are missing the point here. The real issue wasn't the kidney for a Ipad and some cash. It was the hopsital wasn't qualified to remove oragans. So the procedure was probably done wrong and the boy now has an infection.
Of course this is China and if this organ broker is caught he'll probably be executed for the bad rep it gives China. Just like they did with the baby formula poisoning. They executed a person for that too.
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RE: Chinese boy trades kidney in exchange for iPad 2, regrets it
RE: Chinese boy trades kidney in exchange for iPad 2, regrets it
Unfortunate
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Steven Jobs promoted organ donorship, but obviously not for such causes