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Teen Bedridden for Life after Selling Kidney for an iPhone

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

An Anonymous Coward writes:

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: 1) by EEMac on Monday January 21 2019, @03:31PM

    by EEMac (6423) on Monday January 21 2019, @03:31PM (#789613)

    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.