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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: 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.