What would you buy with the money from ...

Crapaud
Crapaud Posts: 2,483
edited June 2011 in The bottom bracket
... selling a kidney?
[url=http://uk.news.yahoo.com/chinese-teenager-sells-kidney-iphone-212819458.html]Yahoo![/url] wrote:
A Chinese teenager has sold his kidney to buy an iPad and iPhone. ...
I find it very hard to believe that someone would sell a kidney to buy the latest technogizmo. If I was mad enough to do that I'd be wanting something far more substantial than an iPad and iPhone. Maybe a round trip to the moon. But even then ...

What would you part with a vital organ for?
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  • MountainMonster
    MountainMonster Posts: 7,423
    I'd sell it for my wife if she needed it, or maybe to buy a house for us. But for techno stuff, or even a bike, nope.
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  • squeeler
    squeeler Posts: 144
    Crapaud wrote:
    ... selling a kidney?
    [url=http://uk.news.yahoo.com/chinese-teenager-sells-kidney-iphone-212819458.html]Yahoo![/url] wrote:
    A Chinese teenager has sold his kidney to buy an iPad and iPhone. ...
    At what point is it acceptable to stop having sympathy for people and just think humanity would be better off without them, this guy has surely got to be a contender for the Darwin Awards?
  • Stewie Griffin
    Stewie Griffin Posts: 4,330
    Need to turn a kidney into an iPad? There's an op for that.

    No? I'll get me coat then.
  • squeeler
    squeeler Posts: 144
    I've just googled and it turns out that the "end user" can end up paying up to $85000 for a dodgy kidney transplant op, so not only was this guy stupid enough to sell an organ he got utterly ripped off as well, ipad and iphone costs only £1000-ish.
  • tlw1
    tlw1 Posts: 22,090
    Stewie Griffin wrote:
    Need to turn a kidney into an iPad? There's an op for that.

    No? I'll get me coat then.

    :)
  • Crapaud
    Crapaud Posts: 2,483
    Stewie Griffin wrote:
    Need to turn a kidney into an iPad? There's an op for that.

    No? I'll get me coat then.
    Taht's the worst joke I've heard for a long time.

    Keep up the good work. :lol:
    A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject - Churchill
  • Herbsman
    Herbsman Posts: 2,029
    What a sad little sh*t.
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  • Cleat Eastwood
    Cleat Eastwood Posts: 7,508
    I'd buy meself an extra liver and carry on drinking.
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    momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.
  • deptfordmarmoset
    deptfordmarmoset Posts: 3,118
    Cleat Eastwood wrote:
    I'd buy meself an extra liver and carry on drinking.

    If I could afford an extra liver I'd probably drink less.
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  • pst88
    pst88 Posts: 621
    What's he gonna do when the next gadget comes out... sell the other kidney? A lung maybe?
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    I'd get some Campagnolo carbon bottle cages and a Rapha Jersey bundle. Then a can of coke with the change. :wink:

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