Holy Crap...Chinese Teenager Sells Kidney For An iPad 2

[FLPanhandle]

www.mediaite.com/online/totally-worth-it-chinese-teenager-sells-kidney-for-an-ipad-2/

‘I wanted to buy an iPad 2, but I didn’t have the money,’ the boy told Shenzhen TV in the southern province of Guangdong, ‘When I surfed the internet I found an advert posted online by agent saying they were able to pay RMB20,000 to buy a kidney.’ After negotiations, the boy travelled north to the city of Chenzhou in Hunan Province where the kidney was removed at a local hospital which discharged him after three days, paying a total of RMB22,000 for the organ.

Trading organs online is a common practice in China, despite repeated attempts by China’s government to stamp out the practice. Last year Japanese television reported that a group of ‘transplant tourists’ had paid £50,000 to receive new kidneys in China.”

Apparently, the black market organ trade is a huge problem in China. The Telegraph goes into more depth but one disturbing detail is that the hospital where the operation took place fully admits that they leased out their urology department to “private businessmen.” I suppose that’s one way to pay for shiny, new bed pans.


Now I like my iPad, but jeez. Yes, it's in China, but I could see something like this happening here to gullible teenagers.

[CreekDog]

1. Well at least it was an Ipad2

it has a camera and stuff.

[liberal N proud]

2. We should all subscribe to this.... NOT!

Selling parts of our bodies to get more stuff. It is sad when people have to resort to this over want!


As far as gullible, look how many people sell their souls for personal gain, like Congress.

[KittyWampus]

3. I sincerely hope, since this has already transpired, the teenager parlays that ipad into a business.

[buddysmellgood]

4. He knows that you can always download a kidney app.

[Sheepshank]

5. I'm having a hard time believing

...that the Chinese gov't is having a hard time stamping this out.

[Dreamer Tatum]

6. Should have gotten more than an iPad - like maybe a PS3, too. nt

[HipChick]

7. What's he going to do when the Ipad3 comes out?

and he needs to upgrade?

[Shagbark Hickory]

8. That's a good deal. Self (un) Insured Americans can import their replacement organs

from India.

[nadinbrzezinski]

9. And people said cyberpunk was fiction

[Scuba]

10. I understand Paul Ryan has already contacted him for an endorsement.

[qb]

11. Apple needs to add a line to its licensing restrictions:

No organs for iPads!
:crazy: