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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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(Score: 3, Insightful) by SomeGuy on Sunday January 20 2019, @07:05PM (5 children)
Around here consumertards commit various crimes and do stupid things all the time just to get "iPhones". There have been a number of reports of people shooting and killing people just for a fucking iPhone. Either that or giant-ass flat screen TVs.
This story took place in 2011, but I'm not seeing much of a decline in how stupid people are when it comes to genuinely believing that that they absolutely MUST have an iPhone/Smartphone/Tablet at all costs. The advertising works. And don't forget to download our **free** news/weather app that requires a purchase of a new Smarphone!
No, you don't want an "iPhone". You probably don't need one either. Keep your kidney.
Did anyone every sell a body part to buy an IBM PC 5150? :P (Imagines a parallel universe where IBM made smartphones and only business people bought them if they really needed them. They would run OS/2).
(Score: 2) by Dr Spin on Sunday January 20 2019, @08:14PM
Imagines a parallel universe where IBM made smartphones and only business people bought them if they really needed them. They would run OS/2
OS/2 phones would stille be better than Windows phones, even if OS/2 really meant half-an-os (you could argue, for many years, it did).
Warning: Opening your mouth may invalidate your brain!
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Hyper on Sunday January 20 2019, @09:56PM (2 children)
Back in the day you could be mugged for your running shoes.
Yes, seriously. Shoes. Granted they cod have cost $100 to $300. You have to wonder.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 20 2019, @10:27PM
A couple of years ago around these parts there was a teenage boy that attempted an armed robbery of a thirty-something coming out of the mall. He had seen him inside purchasing some of those $300 sneakers you mentioned. What the kid did not know was that this particular man had a concealed carry permit and his poor judgment cost him his life. The man will forever have to live with the fact that he send a kid to the morgue, but otherwise faced no criminal prosecution. Given the entirety of the circumstances, the kid was most likely on a fast track career path to be a violent criminal anyway so it was probably only a matter of time for him to gamble and lose.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 20 2019, @10:30PM
Only if you were a ghetto dweller. Otherwise, no mugging. That's why USA prefers to keep their criminally-inclined populations in ghettos.
(Score: 1) by EEMac on Monday January 21 2019, @03:31PM
At least one of our friends, and all of our nephews, have fully bought into the "must upgrade phone NOW" message. When they learned we had phones that were (gasp) two and three years old respectively, each of them said, word-for-word: "You have to upgrade."
It was a knee-jerk reaction. There was literally no thought behind it. They truly believed, all the way to the core, that we had to upgrade RIGHT NOW. For . . . reasons.
Evidently marketing works.