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posted by martyb on Sunday January 20 2019, @02:42PM   Printer-friendly
from the Eye-for-an-"i"-dept dept.

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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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by Rosco P. Coltrane on Sunday January 20 2019, @05:12PM

    by Rosco P. Coltrane (4757) on Sunday January 20 2019, @05:12PM (#789077)

    "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.

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