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In April 2011, 17 year old Wang Shangkunsold a kidney to buy an iPhone. When asked why he did this, the man said “Why do I need a second kidney? One is enough,”.
The man subsequently developed complications and now needs regular dialysis to survive. The complications may have been caused by a lack of post operative care. The doctors involved have been arrested.
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Teen Bedridden for Life after Selling Kidney for an iPhone
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belief, n:
Something you do not believe.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Sunday January 20 2019, @02:52PM (15 children)
I don't think there is anything more to be said.
(Score: 0, Disagree) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 20 2019, @03:48PM (10 children)
well no. this is a case of insufficiently clear laws, and adults taking advantage of a 17 year old idiot.
don't blame the kid, blame the parents, the legal system, and the so-called doctors.
you can't expect a 17 year old to know better.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 20 2019, @04:37PM
Yes, you can expect that.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Sunday January 20 2019, @04:40PM (3 children)
Yes, I can expect him to know better. Maybe YOU don't, but I do. Kids are generally permitted to drive a car at 16. Kids are generally allowed to hunt at 13. Kids routinely engage in sports that are potentially lethal while in elementary school. Kids are expected to be able to cross a street while in elementary school. Kids should know better than to undergo medical procedures without their parent's permission. Kids should know that allowing unknown people to hack off random bits of their anatomy might have undesirable consequences. Laws be damned, this one wasn't bright enough to live.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 20 2019, @10:21PM (2 children)
I certainly hope that I raise my own kids such that I can expect them not to sell body parts.
But no, I would not expect it from a 17 year old picked at random from the entire world.
For instance I assume there are at least hundreds of 17 year old hookers having unprotected sex with sailors that are probably not very cleanlooking; isn't that technically more dangerous? not just because of the possibly lethal STDs, but because of the drunken sailor getting angry and punching them into a coma.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday January 20 2019, @11:01PM
I was always more concerned about those fresh-faced young sailors having sex with random teen-aged prostitutes who aren't very clean looking. Crack whores can be dangerous! ;^)
And, I'm only half joking. We didn't lose any shipmates to prostitutes from either of my two ships, but it happens.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Monday January 21 2019, @08:46AM
Why? Meat industry is not gonna go bust sometime soon.
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(Score: 5, Insightful) by Rosco P. Coltrane on Sunday January 20 2019, @05:12PM
"you can't expect a 17 year old to know better."
Are you kidding me?
At 10, I knew better than to sell bits of my body for any reason at all - let alone to buy a fucking consumer electronics product. If you reckon it's normal for a 17 year old nowadays to think a kidney is worth selling, it says something truly sad about today's teenagers - or about your opinion of teenagers.
(Score: 3, Funny) by Gaaark on Sunday January 20 2019, @07:06PM (3 children)
He should have thought harder: "Hey, I have two brains, right? A right brain and a left brain! I'll just sell one of them!"
17 and that stupid...I guess anything is game.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 20 2019, @08:39PM
At least he was smart enough not to sell his Cornea or his hands.
(Score: 3, Funny) by Nuke on Sunday January 20 2019, @10:55PM
Why not go all the way and have yourself cut right down the middle? This would have had the makings of a Monty Python sketch.
(Score: 3, Funny) by DannyB on Monday January 21 2019, @03:09PM
Hey, I've got two testicles . . .
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: 2) by TheFool on Sunday January 20 2019, @05:17PM (2 children)
He's not dead, though, or even unable to reproduce - he's just bedridden. It's a bit horrible to say but in some ways that's worse.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 21 2019, @05:19AM
Good luck with the reproction part.
(Score: 2) by jasassin on Monday January 21 2019, @05:37PM
The perfect excuse to stay in bed all day and play Angry Birds on his iPhone.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 20 2019, @07:08PM
+1