You know that tattoo you got at spring break ’95 that your ladyfriend makes fun of every morning when you get up shirtless and sees a now-fat picture of Vanilla Ice?
Yeah, that’s one of those things you wish you could go back in time and undo. So you probably know how the Chinese boy who sold his kidney for an iPad last week feels.
According to the Global Times, a young man named Zheng REALLY wanted an iPad. The only problem was, he couldn’t afford it. He claims that “a broker contacted [him] on the Internet” and said that he could swap him one of his kidneys for 20,000 yuan.
Before you get all excited, that’s only $3,484.45.
Naturally, the story was discovered exactly as you’d expect: he was playing with the iPad 2 and his mom was curious where he got the money to buy one.
So he told her and she called the cops and, perhaps least shocking of all, the hospital that took the kidney out wasn’t licensed to perform kidney transplants.
And, more than likely, wasn’t actually a hospital.
But that’s not the point. Well, it kind of is, since the point is actually that if anyone ever tries to pay you less than at least five thousand bucks for a kidney, you should tell them to get bent.
Also, perhaps a better lesson: don’t sell organs for Apple products...
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