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Teen Sells His Kidney For An iPad2!

Posted By: C.J. Arabia on 06.03.11

Today a Chinese teen is in the news... 17-year-old "Zheng" (that's his sur name) confessed to his mother that he had sold one of his kidneys for about $3,100 (American dollars) so that he could afford to buy an iPad2.

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"I wanted to buy an iPad2, but I didn't have the money," the boy told TV reporters, "When I surfed the internet I found an advert posted online by agent saying they were able to pay RMB20,000 to buy a kidney." There was some negotiating and then on April 28th Zheng left his home where he lives with his mother and traveled north to the city of Chenzhou in the Hunan Province.

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Doctors at a local hospital removed his kidney and discharged him after 3 days.

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When he returned back home he had a laptop, a new iPad2 and a new Apple headset... his mother demanded to know where he had gotten so much money, I mean for a Chinese family this is a small fortune, and he finally confessed that he had sold one of his kidneys and showed her the bright pink scar.

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Of Course his mom freaked the freak out. She took him back to Chenzhou to report the crime to the police, but as you might expect... all three phone numbers that Zheng had been using to contact the people to whom he had sold the kidney to were disconnected. The hospital says they know nothing about it, and that they had contracted that operating room out to a private individual.

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Apple products are in huge demand in China, and are seen as a major status symbol by young consumers.

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In poor foreign countries people sell their organs... In the Philippians one doctor pays £1,000 per kidney and has no shortage of donors.

In American one man, who had lost everything and was close to being homeless tried to sell his kidney on Craigslist for $75,000, and this other guy offered to sell his kidney for 2 tickets to Obama's inauguration. There is no shortage of idiots willing to part with a vital organ in exchange for money or other seemingly unobtainable things.

The sad thing about Zheng is that he's just a kid. He had no idea what he was getting into. His surgery didn't go well, and he's been suffering from complications. He now seriously regrets his decision.

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Now that he has his new computer and iPad2 he gets constant online offers for free iPads. How's that for a slap in the face... or kidney, as it were.

Maybe Apple can come up with an iPad app that processes toxins and waste from your blood. Until that happens, it's probably not worth it to be selling a kidney for electronics that are going to out of date in a year.

What would it take for you to sell a kidney?

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Tags: apple, boy, china, Chinese, computer, ipad, ipad2, kidney, organ, sells, teen, trade

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nat_n14

4 weeks ago

ok, they spelled philippines as philippians,
i am not a grammar nazi, i just have ocd and i'm from the philippines.
sorry, couldn't help it.

linlou10

10 weeks ago

How did his mom drive him, but not know?

jesmer543

18 weeks ago

why do people put shopping websites on a thingabout Kidneys

Donie Darko

35 weeks ago

wow!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i feel soo bad for him!!1 I hope he gets better!!!!!1 Hes sooo cute!!!!!!

rozemira

48 weeks ago

what do you mean, in China it's a small fortune? What if it was YOUR KID trading a kidney for $3000, you would freak out too! and by the way ChenZhou is not a poor city.

SynysterMike

48 weeks ago

Where do i sign up i dont need 2 kindeys

FireChip

50 weeks ago

Hope his kidney fails.. noob.. scrub..

FireChip

50 weeks ago

Hope his kidney fails.. noob.. scrub..

mianahmad

50 weeks ago

Then what they can do for biggest ipad, see this: World's Biggest iPad.

wuuht

50 weeks ago

i realy dont see why thats so wrong certainly not if you are poor

BVBFallenAngel

50 weeks ago

That is despressing.

rmxpokeman

50 weeks ago

Wow.... no words.

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50 weeks ago

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kristian10049

50 weeks ago

GOOD JOB AT SPELLING PHILIPPINES WRONG

surrvellint

50 weeks ago

WOW! people should really try out stuff these days cause my dad got an i pad for $700
about 5 mouths ago. The catch was that he had to pay $30 an hour for internet, even though he had a wireless rout

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50 weeks ago

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Chrisbel98

50 weeks ago

I can understand the vid :) But there should have been eng subs :0

LingYao<3

50 weeks ago

Stop blaming smosh about that misspelled Philippines... It's the Author's fault...
I'm a Pilipino...We're just the same ( '^' )

pjohnsin

50 weeks ago

Dude he lives in china why didn't he just build his own?

paparoster

50 weeks ago

lol if it was a real surgeon and i knew both of my kidneys were healthy i would totaly sell one for 3,100 bucks... god gave us two for a reason, in case one fails or you need an ipad 2

illyssa

50 weeks ago

Well, I only have 1 working kidney so I wouldn't be able to do that..but for those of you who want to..I live with no complications haha I didn't even know one of my kidneys didn't work till last year

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50 weeks ago

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JCMusicLover

50 weeks ago

its just so sad how someone is willing to go to that extent for something that's gonna be "yesterday's technology". (probably within the next few months) time is moving fast and new things are being i