Totally Worth It: Chinese Teenager Sells Kidney For An iPad 2
Some people just really love their Apple products. In China, a 17-year-old boy returned home one day with a new laptop and iPad 2. His mother asked him how he’d gotten them and eventually he had to reveal the big, red scars going up the side of his body. Yep, he’d sold his kidney for an iPad.
From the Telegraph:
“‘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.