Chinese police have arrested the group who let a 17-year-old boy sell them his kidney so he could buy the latest Apple hardware.
China’s state media reports that 5 people involved in the removal and sale of the organ have been arrested, including the surgeon who extracted it and the brokers who sold it on.
They face charges of inflicting bodily harm on the boy, and engaging in illegal organ trading.
The case came to light when the boy’s mother discovered he had suddenly acquired an iPhone and iPad, which she knew to be well beyond his means. Police soon launched an investigation.
The boy received about $3,000 for his kidney, but the sellers managed a much more respectable $35,000 for the organ.
He is now suffering kidney failure as a result of the strain placed on his remaining kidney, and likely faces a truncated lifetime of unpleasant and expensive medical problems.
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What is the point of these Chinese stories again?...
At this point, I don't really see it as anything other than sad to watch. So a nation of billions use their own well being to get money. I don't see what more needs to be said.
You speak as if this is somehow exclusive to China?
People selling their bodies (whores), body parts, dignity, etc. exist in the white man's land as well.
Of course it's not a Chinese problem exclusively. I just wonder why this site keeps needing to bring China down a peg and keep pace with the racist 2ch mentality.
It's an update to an old story... an interesting one at that, since the fools were caught and are facing charges. If anything it's not bringing China down, but taking them up a few pegs, since most would just assume that nobody gives a shit over there. Learn to think before you speak.
I would wager that there are more stories on sancom that reflect poorly on Japan than China.
@Dia Exactly!
I'm really curious to know what happened to the boy when the new version was announced.
He knocked his mother out and sold hers.
This kind of thing happens from my ancestor's place. Kids disappearing then go home with missing organs. Some of them not coming back and made into slaves or surplus parts...
What? There are 2 kidneys maybe one for the ipad and the other is for the iphone.
>sacrificing any part of your body let alone your kidney for a inferior I-sucks.
ISHYGDDT
yea.. apple product are just so overrated, its not even a joke. Sucks now that he has to suffer future kidney problems.
Its his own retard fault though.
if i could sell my organs for retail value, i would sell my lung, kidney and liver (cut it in 2)
the black market value of them is around 60k for the kidney, about 250k for the lung up to 1 mill and the liver is whatever somone would pay for it.
im saying this as someone who will most likely never make over 1.5 million in spending money in my life... but i could grow that 1.5 to at least 25 million in stocks given the time.
You only have one liver...
Unlike many organs the liver is able to regenerate. You can remove up to 70% of a donor liver without many problems and it can grow back to normal size in about 2-3 months.
Now Apple need to create an I-kidney for idiots like this.
"You can remove up to 70% of a donor liver"
"it can grow back to normal size in about 2-3 months."
the liver has different lobes that can be removed if needed.
*for superior master-race hardware
thereifixedit
you mean for inferior white shit.
interior crocodile alligator
I ride a chevrolet movie theater
I laughed extra hard at this
Mega Fool, this brat.
Exchanging KIDNEY for APPLE.
Their values are heaven and earth apart, for God's sake!
you took the words right out of my mouth :)
iSuck got you again!
This kind of "business" is quite popular in Kosova, and it's borders with Serbia and Albania. There's a lot of human trafiking and organ smuggling happening here, so it's not all that shocking to me.
Oh, also, the kidney's gonna explode inside the implantee. Satisfaction guaranteed!
A kidney for an iPad? I thought the brand new iPad costs at least 2 Kidneys, 5 Hearts, 7 Livers and a first born baby..
That sounds more like a labor sacrifice to Apple.
Can't they just ignore this? The guy wanted his kidney removed. End of the story.
Track the goddamn animal torturers.
There is so much shallow stupidity involved in the entire situation with this case that in the same thought I can feel sympathy for the boy while simultaneously recognize his Darwinian ineptitude and want to shoot him myself.
And what's worse, making it that much dumber, is that there's nothing even that special about the iPad or iPhone in the slightest compared to other modern technology. Beyond portability, not a damn thing. Steve Jobs was a visionary and pioneered much of the tech with Apple that will open some convenience pathways, but within a month or two, the same shit comes out elsewhere at a fourth the price... and we still don't even need it at all. And his dumb ass was willing to split with his kidney under the same fucking retarded logic as "Well, I've got two, I'll be fine" like a god damn cartoon character. It's like he gave us permission to not care about his life.
its like that.. they still using this business model, otherwise if they design things to last longer, they would not profit much or go bankrupt imo. If they do things like, lets say selling ipod touch 1 with less feature, then within next year, ipod touch 2 with a shitty camera and some upgrades, then next year ipod touch 3 with better camera and adding some stuff that is probably gimmick, and it goes on and on, they earn much more by just doing that.
Just like Nintendo with its Gameboy DS series. Fat->slim version->DSi->slim version->3DS.
I'm not hating Nintendo, just pointing this out because Anon 19:27 mention about minor add-on for milking money from their customers.
Hey man, the 3DS is on a totally different level than the original. It can handle 2GB-8GB games. While the DS could handle less than two hundred megabytes.
If only Megaman Legends 3 came out...
and the sad thing is that he only got 3,000 dollars and the others profit more than 30k!! sad really
That 30K still had to be divided among the 5 so he got a fair cut.
He's stupid and lucky they didn't just harvest all of his organs. Even if a person wasn't that bright, most would have the innate sense of self-preservation to avoid a situation where there is so much of the unknown in something as shady as that.
Probably should of... People this stupid needs to just die.
you need to fucking die if you actually thinks that, i can tell that you have no idea of how a poor chinese lives, he is kinda stupid, yes, but do you know how rare... not rare, do you know how unique, an i-pad is in his village? yes, maybe you think that an i-pad is just like a basic technology for now days, but it's a godly thing in poor villages, do not comment bad things for a foolish boy like this, if you want to comment, support him, as you understand nothing about it, he might actually still be happy without his kidney
@ Anon 18:30
You are the type of idiot that yet again makes me want to shoot someone for the sake of humanity's growth as a species. You are actually arguing for a boy in a very poor village, where there are among hundreds of things that could help his living situation more than a god damn iPad and iPhone if you are going with that logic, and still defend his selfishness and stupidity?
He could have helped his family at least with the money. The only thing a boy that age thinks about in terms of self-preservation is his god damn popularity. He did it so he could look cool among his peers, because there is NOTHING on an iPad that is worth it that a cheap, functional PC can't do with the exception of a couple pointless games. You can get tons of free pointless games on a PC as well.
There is nothing redeeming here. To pretend otherwise only defines your own stupidity and shallowness as a person.
HEY, if a idiot wants to harm himself, let him do it.
Ya, because sitting by and watching other people hurt themselves is the right thing to do.
Seriously that mindset only makes people in this world that much worse. A little compassion and empathy go a long way even in cases with obvious stupidity such as this.
Aye 17 years old he was with personal consent...the only thing I'm disappointed is how much he got for it...Burn the puppy killing bitch!
Yeah, and if he dies of kidney failure before having kids he will be a good prospect for the Darwin Award... no real loss.
I guess Chinese teenagers really wanted give up there Kidneies for a Ipad.
Ipad is so overrated
It maybe Overrated but people buy it for Angry Birds.
It's not like it was rape. He was willing to do it. Still, any self-respecting tattooist won't tattoo a drunk person with lowered inhibitions, I think the same principle applies here. They should have tried to talk him out of it.
How many self-respecting organ harvesters are there? Your argument is invalid. They were running a scam to take the boy's kidney for a few grand, going around basic human decency to trick a 17-year-old out of necessary organs. Chances are they didn't even tell him the risks. Why not? Because they're black market organ harvesters. They're the type that leave you a helpful "Go to the hospital" note and leave you in a bathtube full of ice. This group just uses Apple products to lure in poor teenagers.
Natural selection at work.
This kid really has no one to blame but himself. Especially considering that it was his choice.
I mean, is an iPad really worth your health?
I think he got at least his parents to blame. He's only 17 and a surgery like kidney removal in China would require a parental consent(I think that's the reason even the surgeon was arrested, the operation is totally illegal without the parental consent).
I mean if you are a normal parent and care for your kid, what is the chance that your kid would sell his body parts escaping your notice?
The kid secretly did this, because the mother only realized when she saw him with the iPad. The kid was 17 and he should have common sense. Basically, he knew what he was doing. I think the parents might've prevented him if they KNEW what he was doing behind their back.
common sense in china and common sense in america are different, don't comment if you know nothing about it
I think its not worth it, even the amount of money he get is shitty and he has to worry about his kidney failure now, not worth it man..