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Chinese lad regrets selling a kidney for an Ipad 2
ONE ARMED GADGET coveters rejoice, you no longer have to give up your other arm to buy an Ipad, instead you can consider selling an internal body part.
Well perhaps not, if the following cautionary tale is to believed. A report in the Chinese newspaper The Global Times says that a teenager in Huaishan, Anhui Province has sold one of his kidneys to buy an Ipad and ever since has, well, felt rather bad about it.
The 17-year-old, with the surname Zheng, met up with a 'kidney selling agent' through the internet, where else. Having shaken hands with the charming organ legger, Zheng took him up on his offer of 20,000 yuan - around £1,900 - for a kidney and went off to a hospital with dreams of buying a touchscreen tablet.
"I wanted to buy an iPad 2 but could not afford it," he is quoted as saying on a Chinese television report. "A broker contacted me on the Internet and said he could help me sell one kidney for 20,000 yuan."
He returned home a couple of days later, one kidney lighter, and came face to face with his mother - an event that must have been missed out of the me - kidney + Ipad = joy equation.
His mum sensibly called the police, who so far have been unable to locate either the businessman or the kidney in question.
The really bad news though, no matter on which side of the organ selling fence you stand, is the glossed over revelation that when Zheng went home he had a laptop and an Iphone in his mitts, and not an Ipad 2. µ
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I just find thet as to being really pathetic!!!
Sorry! He did that to buy Android.
The article fails to mention that he bought a Macbook an Iphone and an Ipad2.
Was it worth it.. I doubt it.
I could see selling kidney for Blackberry Ipad, not the Apple Ipad, boy that is crazy!
If you'll look at http://failblog.org/2011/06/03/epic-fail-photos-probably-bad-news-priorities-fail/ you'll find that over 57% of the random viewers don't want an iPad because they're rubbish. I suppose hmmm will simply have to browse to Macgasm and never leave that zombie-infested cult garden.
I am fed up with these anti-apple stories... who would not give a kidney to get an iPad 2?
This magazine is crap I am going to go somewhere where it is not so anti-apple. The author is so rubbish.
Perhaps Steve Jobs could make a magnanimous gesture and give the poor lad one of the kidneys from his "spare parts" organ stockpile?
Would be great PR, and could perhaps encourage more people to sell body parts for Apple trinkets...which could help sustain Steve's spare-parts supply in the long run.
With only one kidney I advise him to stay away from any euro cucumbers.
it's ok the kidney turned out to be a Chinese fake
Apparently he never read my fable about the three magic beans?
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too retarded to resist such temptation. maybe he should sell his remaining kidney for a coffin and a plot in a cemetery (the joke of course, is that cremation is now the preferred method of disposal.)
IT IS ADMIRABLE TO HELP ONE'S FELLOW MAN WITH SUCH A PROFOUND DONATION.
IN THE STATES I THINK YOU CAN GET $5 PER PINT OF BLOOD DONATION, DOWNSIDE IS YOU CAN ONLY DO IT EVERY FEW MONTHS OR SO. A SHARP LAD WOULD REALIZE YOU CAN GET THE SAME AMOUNT FOR DONATING PLASMA, WHICH YOU CAN DO ON A WEEKLY BASIS IF NOT DAILY. EVEN BETTER, HOSPITALS HAVE MORE USE FOR PLASMA ANYWAYS (TAKE THAT, BLOOD DONATION SNOBS).
(POINT IS, IN A MATTER OF MONTHS TABLETS WILL PLUMMET IN COST IN WHICH CASE YOU CAN LITERALLY BUY ONE FROM THE PROCEEDS DONATING PLASMA - START TODAY AND SEE - DON'T BOTHER IN CANADA, IT IS ILLEGAL TO GET MONEY FOR DONATING BLOOD)
To be fair, the Ipad 2 is not really worth a kidney, however...IF you would like a new pre release alpha Ipad 3 and happen to own a spare kidney, please contact me!
It's a fair deal, Ipad 3 for a kidney. Alternatively I can pay for the kidney with hundreds of old megadrive game cassettes if you don;t want the Ipad.
You already have two kidneys, why not sell your spare? in fact, why not sell a lung as well?? if you want to sell a lung + kidney in one go I'll give you both the Ipad 3 AND the megadrive cassettes. Heck I'll even through in an Asus transformer.
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... almost had me in stitches. But that would be tasteless. Poor, stupid kid.