Five Charged in China After Teen Trades Kidney for iPhone and iPad

[MindMover]

Source: Time

Camping overnight at the Apple store looks pretty tame after this case. Five people in southern China have been charged for taking a 17-year-old boy’s kidney in exchange for an iPad and an iPhone.

According to Reuters, one of the defendants received $35,000 for arranging the transplant for an unknown client. He split that money with a surgeon and three other defendants.

The boy, identified only by his surname Wang, confessed to selling his kidney after his mom asked him where his new Apple products came from. Prosecutors from Chenzhou, in the Hunan province, say that he now suffers from renal deficiency.

The worst part? Wang got a terrible deal. In China, iPhones start at 3,988 yuan ($633) and iPads 2,988 yuan ($474). Now, I’m no professor of economics, but that comes out to a combined $1,107. Even cut five ways, the amount the defendant got for the kidney was enough for a whole bunch of iPads and iPhones, not to mention a MacBook Air or two.

Read more: http://techland.time.com/2012/04/06/five-charged-in-china-after-teens-sells-kidney-for-iphone/#ixzz1rHhktO4r

Read more: http://techland.time.com/2012/04/06/five-charged-in-china-after-teens-sells-kidney-for-iphone/

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[Blue_Tires]

1. Capitalism, fuck yeah?

words fail...

[Enrique]

2. my mom would have been pissed

you sold WHAT?!!!

[Snake Alchemist]

3. But the new screen is just sick! nt

[starfox172]

4. f*ck apple and all their accessories & fanboys/girls

not to take away from the genius that steve jobs was

[lunasun]

7. Cult of Technology

it is like cult of personality hero worship except for techie things instead of a person

Appleheads

[cliffordu]

11. Are you telling me to fuck myself?

[pnwmom]

13. Apple had nothing to do with this.

[LiberalLovinLug]

14. Sure they did!

They should stop making such great products!
then we wouldn't have this kind of demand

and we wouldn't have the jealous PCbots whining about it.

[starfox172]

5. its as pathetic as people getting shot in the parking lot over limited edition sneakers

or a shiny new xbox

[KamaAina]

6. Kidney failure? There's an app for that!

[sakabatou]

8. Fuuuuuu-

[tawadi]

9. Wth?

[cliffordu]

10. Hope they don't find out what I did for one.

Sorry, Mrs. Lewis.

REALLY sorry to the chipmunks and that goat.

[joshcryer]

12. That shows how deep the obession with those products go.

Not to fault the victim here as I'm sure there was also some pressure by the people, telling him he had two kidney's and just manipulating him to do it.

[Liber-AL]

15. In the USA he would not have gotten anything!

The only profit from transplants in the USA go to the hospitals or surgeons performing them. That is, last time I checked!

[christx30]

16. Wow...

I paid an arm and a leg for mine.