Teen Sells Kidney for iPad 2

[Sizzle Montyjing]

I feel sick about this.
I really do.
"Oh no! I can't afford the iPad 2! The only logical solution therefore is to sell my kidney!"
What was going through his mind?

I feel exactly the same. Seventeen year old + ipad2 = for what??!!
It's such a temporary object. I honestly wanna punch this kid in the face!
His selfish actions are only justifiable if he sold his kidney knowing that he'd be saving someone elses life, and the money for an ipad2 was a secondary bonus. Could have at least spent the money better imho.
My God, I really hope his kidney is used to save a life - Even if it was taken illegally.

Just don't punch him in the stomach! He only has one kidney...
ahhh... this is why people need money lessons.

 

[tzimize]

He should have waited 6 months for the iPad 3.

Oh you...

OT: Well, if I had any faith in humanity it would be gone now. Fortunately I dont, so nothing of value was lost. Not even that idiots kidney.

 

[Lono Shrugged]

I do genuinely feel bad for this guy and My "life being saved" comment was being a bit sarcastic. we can all climb up on our high horses about this or a poor boy being taken advantage of, but I'm sorry, he knew exactly what he was doing and everyone saying it's apple's fault or the organ dealers fault, just forgetting the fact that this kid grew up in a way that made this decision a good one in his mind. Not understanding that you shouldn't sell organs is at the same level as not jumping into a van with a guy offer free puppies and candy

 

[Cipher1]

Well guess it beats selling your soul!!

But yeah seriously this shit is messed up surely there are better means of gaining gadgets than trading them for organs. I hope no one tells him that many other parts of his body can fetch a fair quid or two.

 

[Magikarp]

Hooray for natural selection!
Another idiot takes a step closer to Darwin's gaping maw.

 

[PureIrony]

You just know he's going to end up breaking that thing in a couple of months.

Oh, how stupid he'll feel then.

 

[minimacker]

Well, you could ALMOST say that IT COST HIM AN ARM AND A LEG.
HAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAHAHAHAHA.

HA.

Seriously, I've been waiting a few years to pull that joke. It was only a matter of time.

 

[Udyrfrykte]

No one in their right mind would have done this.

He's 17. Case closed.

I wasn't that stupid at that age, I'm quite sure most aren't.

 

[Ciaran Lunt]

he'll kicking him self when he see' the ipod 3 in july

 

[Woodsey]

No one in their right mind would have done this.

He's 17. Case closed.

Cheers.

OT: You sure it wasn't his brain that he sold?

 

[Vrach]

"Mom, I just sold my kidney for an Ipad. What's for dinner?"

"I'm the buyer silly, what do you think?!"

 

[Nerfherder17]

It's extreme and I would never sell any part of my body for a gadget, but that was his decision and fair play to him.

 

[Shifty Tortoise]

Don't feel sorry for him, mock him relentlessly for his stupidity, perhaps it will prevent the same thing from happening again. This is evolution at work people.

That exactly is your idea of evolution? Yes it was a stupid decision but it has nothing to do with evolution.

Maybe i should have been clearer, if he dies of infection from a botched kidney transplant, it's evolution.

Less survival of the fittest and more survival of the not terminally stupid.

 

[Jakub324]

That crazy SOB.

 

[ionveau]

You're all neglecting the fact a life was saved by this.

Yes a life was saved, But what life? a life of a begger on the streets or a life of a 80 year old rich man

 

[Rhymenoceros]

I...what?!?

1)Who sells a bodily organ for a piece of technology that doesn't end world hunger/keep you alive/turn you into a giant mech?
2)Why would he go for surgery under such dodgy circumstances
3)He could have gotten a lot more for a kidney!

 

[tahrey]

this just makes me think of

there's some strange brainwashing going on with apple products...

 

[Gender Unknown]

Well, it is his body and his organ to sell. Pretty ridicules choice in my opinion, though. But hey, maybe the kidney saves a life.

 

[Gender Unknown]

I feel sick about this.
I really do.
"Oh no! I can't afford the iPad 2! The only logical solution therefore is to sell my kidney!"
What was going through his mind?

I feel exactly the same. Seventeen year old + ipad2 = for what??!!
It's such a temporary object. I honestly wanna punch this kid in the face!
His selfish actions are only justifiable if he sold his kidney knowing that he'd be saving someone elses life, and the money for an ipad2 was a secondary bonus. Could have at least spent the money better imho.
My God, I really hope his kidney is used to save a life - Even if it was taken illegally.

How does is seem selfish to you? I can't find anything selfish in trading something of yours for a retail item. It seems amazingly dumb to me, but not selfish. It'd be selfish if he sold someone else's kidney

 

[namewon'tfitin]

So god realy made the world whit cryengine2.
That explains the AI of that girl.