A 17YO Chinese kid sells a kidney to buy iPhone and IPad.

[busydude]

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/asia/is-a...d-in-china-over-illegal-organ-transplant/1579

Five people have been charged in China yesterday over an incident last year, where a seventeen-year-old teenager sold his kidney to buy a new iPhone and iPad 2.

State-run news site Xinhua reported that the five, including a surgeon and other medical staff, received around 220,000 yuan ($35,000) for the transplant. They have been charged with intentional injury. Several other suspects are still under investigation.

The teenager, only identified by the surname ‘Wang’, received 22,000 yuan ($3,500) for his kidney.

Apple products are pricey, certainly, and Wang came from Anhui province which is considered one of China’s poorest.iPhones cost around 3,988 yuan ($633) and an iPad costs about 2,988 yuan ($474). For a seventeen-year-old from a modest background, they were out of reach.

He got a poor deal.

 

[Red Squirrel]

lol at selling a piece of equipment that he would have with him forever to get something that will be obsolete in 6 months when a new one comes out. Silly kid.

So much fail here. And it's not like they can be that expensive there considering that's where they're made. The factory outlet pricing must be pretty good not to mention there must be lot of leaked ones that go on sale cheap on the black market.

 

[FoBoT]

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