Teenager sells kidney to afford iPhone/iPad
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Teenager sells kidney to afford iPhone/iPad
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-17640209
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A teenage boy sold his kidney (for around $3000) to be able to afford a iPhone and a iPad.
I'm sure we've allthought "I wish I could afford that", but how many of us thought that selling a part of your body would be the best way to get the money? Especially for for a apple product.
This is almost marketing for apple, that apparently their products are so good that people are selling bodyparts to be able to afford them. No; worth an arm and a leg jokes please
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A teenage boy sold his kidney (for around $3000) to be able to afford a iPhone and a iPad.
I'm sure we've allthought "I wish I could afford that", but how many of us thought that selling a part of your body would be the best way to get the money? Especially for for a apple product.
This is almost marketing for apple, that apparently their products are so good that people are selling bodyparts to be able to afford them. No; worth an arm and a leg jokes please
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I'd probably sell my Kidney for a decent Laptop and a Galaxy S2, but fuck buying apple products for it! It's like selling something that will never go out of date for something that will last 6 months.
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Deja vi. This happened last year.
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Re: Teenager sells kidney to afford iPhone/iPad
the_lone_bard wrote:I'd probably sell my Kidney for a decent Laptop and a Galaxy S2, but fuck buying apple products for it! It's like selling something that will never go out of date for something that will last 6 months.
There is also the fact that a lot more research and development has gone in to making kidneys a great user experience than anything the Church of Jobs has made.
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Well sure it's a super dumb thing to sell a kidney for, but at least now someone who needed a kidney will get it.
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Re: Teenager sells kidney to afford iPhone/iPad
Elomin Sha wrote:Deja vi. This happened last year.
Yeah this is that story from last year, but its an update on the story since the people behind it have been arrested.
The Jester wrote:Well sure it's a super dumb thing to sell a kidney for, but at least now someone who needed a kidney will get it.
True, if there is one good thing in this story, it would be that.
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Re: Teenager sells kidney to afford iPhone/iPad
Well, one guy got a Kidney and another guy got to feed his addiction for a little longer so oh well.
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If you are dumb enough to sell your kidney, then I thank you for doing so
It lovers the chance of you staying in the genepool
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Re: Teenager sells kidney to afford iPhone/iPad
Hmmm maybe I should sell off my liver, it's not like it's got that much mileage left on it anyway...
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Re: Teenager sells kidney to afford iPhone/iPad
Mowinckel wrote:If you are dumb enough to sell your kidney, then I thank you for doing so
It lovers the chance of you staying in the genepool
I'm confused.
Plenty of people only have one kidney. In fact, it's a great thing to donate.
You: now have to pee more often.
Someone else: now lives.
How does it lower your chance of reproduction?
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Yeah, losing a kidney won't kill you, you have 2 after all. It have some drawbacks but still, not lethal unless there are complications or you suffer from some disease.
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Re: Teenager sells kidney to afford iPhone/iPad
I think the point was that it becomes more likely that you will die, not that giving up a kidney means certain death. It probably doesn't increase your mortality by much though since, as pointed out, plentty of people live quite happily with one renal meat bag.
Re: Teenager sells kidney to afford iPhone/iPad
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Lorithad wrote:"What do you mean kidneys don't grow back? I thought I finally had a system that worked!"
That would be the liver.. well parts of it anyway.
But yeah, one kind of wanna look up some medical books before deciding what bodyparts to give up
Re: Teenager sells kidney to afford iPhone/iPad
There is obviously a lot to know about this. I think you made some good points about how to money works on the Internet.
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Re: Teenager sells kidney to afford iPhone/iPad
auberginequeen wrote:Wait, wait, wait.
$3000?
Seriously? For a kidney?
They're worth WAY more than that.
I think the real issue here is that the kid doesn't know how to haggle.
Also:
Bacon wrote:renal meat bag.
This term is what I shall henceforth use to refer to kidneys.
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Yeah, its post it almost makes sense when looking at the topic of the thread
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Re: Teenager sells kidney to afford iPhone/iPad
Maybe it could be like a gift of Magi thing, where the he sold his kidney for an iPad to give to his friend and his friend sold his smug sense of self satisfaction to give him a ticket to an all you can drink beer-fest.
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Yeah, that would be perfec-wait a minute...
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Re: Teenager sells kidney to afford iPhone/iPad
We all knew it would eventually come to this. I'm not surprised just a little disappointed.
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Re: Teenager sells kidney to afford iPhone/iPad
the_lone_bard wrote:I'd probably sell my Kidney for a decent Laptop and a Galaxy S2, but fuck buying apple products for it! It's like selling something that will never go out of date for something that will last 6 months.
Does nobody pick up a hint of irony in this statement?
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