Chinese man who sold kidney for iPad 2 and iPhone 4 in 2011 is now bedridden for life

[Master Disaster]

I was born with one kidney, I'm almost 40 and I'm still perfectly fine. It's possible to live a perfectly healthy life with only one kidney.

 

Something else is going on here.

[Teddy07]

2 hours ago, sof006 said:

I don't feel sorry for him. If he's stupid enough to do that then he deserves all he gets. Never put your own health before anything else.

Sometimes you have to make hard choices. The government forces me to pay for healthcare but I can´t do it anymore. I could either stop studying and start searching for a job I could study without healthcare. 

[MoonSpot]

16 minutes ago, Master Disaster said:

I was born with one kidney, I'm almost 40 and I'm still perfectly fine. It's possible to live a perfectly healthy life with only one kidney.

 

Something else is going on here.

Think infection from the surgery is a safe assumption.  Selling the organs to the black market, and illegal surgery were the hints provided in the op.

[abazigal]

2 hours ago, Arika S said:

......well yeah....that generally happens when you halve the amount of kidneys you have

According to the article, the failure of his second kidney was supposedly due to infection caused by the unsanitary conditions where he had the operation done. 

[TechyBen]

1 hour ago, 1kv said:

On @RorzNZ's profile (or page whatever you call it) it says:

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That probably has to do with it. I don't know though, take what I said with a grain of salt because I suck at medical stuff.

A likely cover story. That's what they all say. Don't leave town.

 

[D13H4RD]

34 minutes ago, Master Disaster said:

Something else is going on here.

Black Market. He had the operation performed in an uncertified clinic by what looked to be unlicensed surgeons. 

 

I've heard of this story. It's depressing but it also serves as a reminder for two things. 

1. Don't risk your life by performing major surgeries in unlicensed and illegal areas operated by unlicensed personnel. 
2. Just don't trade any one of your organs for a fucking cellphone. Seriously, just don't. 

[GoldenLag]

2 hours ago, huilun02 said:

you would have noticed their disturbing fervor for wearing and using only stuff from well known expensive brands.

i dont think this is strictly Chinese at all.......

 

have you had a look around lately?

[sof006]

1 hour ago, Teddy07 said:

Sometimes you have to make hard choices. The government forces me to pay for healthcare but I can´t do it anymore. I could either stop studying and start searching for a job I could study without healthcare. 

Make hard choices? He didn't HAVE to buy the Apple products. 

[yian88]

6 hours ago, RyomaSJibenG said:

either taking a joke too literally or the joke actually came from this

I think there have been many cases before this where people sold kidneys for a bottle of alcohol or something alike.

[Brooksie359]

1 hour ago, Master Disaster said:

I was born with one kidney, I'm almost 40 and I'm still perfectly fine. It's possible to live a perfectly healthy life with only one kidney.

 

Something else is going on here.

That was my first thought. There are plenty of kidney donors that are perfectly fine.

[vorticalbox]

6 hours ago, mxk. said:

idk what you mean, but sure.

 

forced, shitty humor is good stuff.

someone hasn't watched all the LTT videos o.0

[Teddy07]

1 hour ago, sof006 said:

Make hard choices? He didn't HAVE to buy the Apple products. 

Yes indeed. I was responding to another comment.

[Sauron]

I guess he got exactly what he bargained for

[mxk]

1 hour ago, vorticalbox said:

someone hasn't watched all the LTT videos o.0

Yeah, I have an outside life.

[Velcade]

2 hours ago, D13H4RD said:

Just don't trade any one of your organs for a fucking cellphone. Seriously, just don't. 

I dunno... Those new flagship phones are getting pretty expensive.  Soon they'll cost an arm and a leg.

[wasab]

i....idiot

[WkdPaul]

* Thread moved to the General section *

 

This isn't Tech News

[SansVarnic]

-= Moved to Off-Topic =-

 

Granted the man bought an Iphone but the article is about his health and black market stuff.

This is not tech news.

[BuckGup]

Wait I thought you could get like $25,000 for a kidney not like $1000

[vorticalbox]

2 hours ago, mxk. said:

Yeah, I have an outside life.

I work 40 hours a week as a software engineer. I'm pretty sure everyone here has an outside life.

 

It's called "we can fix this"

[aezakmi]

10 hours ago, mr moose said:

Humans Apple fanboys are dumb.

FTFY

[Undated]

8 hours ago, huilun02 said:

I'm not implying all Chinese are like this 'one idiot'. Generalizing is not what I do. But if you actually met some of them (specifically the mainland Chinese) you would have noticed their disturbing fervor for wearing and using only stuff from well known expensive brands.

 

Something is very very wrong with the way they are being cultured over there.

 

I'm not trying to shit talk the Chinese. I myself am Chinese (only by ethnicity) and almost all my friends who have been brought up on the mainland exhibit this strange behavior. Don't get me wrong. They are very nice people. In fact they don't even make an attempt to brag about what they have. Its just that they seem to have been conditioned to accept nothing but branded stuff to pass off as being normal, and keep doing it as if there is some invisible force compelling them to do so.

I lived in “mainland” China for about six years before,  the majority of people there are not what you have described, and I have never seen any odd conditioning to obsess over expensive brands.

 

Maybe your friends’ obsession over fancy brands could stem from a different reason? Your wording leads me to believe that you haven’t really seen what most people in “mainland” China are like. If you live outside of China (I guess that includes people from Hong Kong and Taiwan but that isn’t the limit) then perhaps your friends’ behavior stems from having more money? Like a lot of other people maybe they obsess over these brands because they can afford it? Again I have never seen a majority of people act like the way you have said they do. Only a very, very small monority.

 

There’s no point in saying that you’re not generalizing just because you are of Chinese ethnicity, because DNA shouldn’t impact thought process like that. Maybe you don’t think you’re generalizing, maybe you really aren’t. But the wording sure makes it sound like that.

 

I apologize if I sound aggressive and insulting, that is not my intent. I just want to point out a few things.

 

Back to the original topic, that sucks. I feel sorry for the man though I wonder what reason he had at the time to do that for some Apple products?

[Canada EH]

13 hours ago, Raskolnikov said:

Chinese

They take people off the streets for the transplant market, tourist medical procedures are a real money maker for China! They will harvest a human, a living human and murder that human for organs. Prisoners are a common source. It is only since 2015 that China claims to have been using volunteer donors as its organ source.

 

Prisoners as well as Uyghur Muslims, Tibetans, and potentially house church Christians, but overwhelmingly practitioners of Falun Gong, a traditional Chinese spiritual practice that has been persecuted since 1999. It is likely, of course, that other dispossessed and marginalized Chinese citizens have also been victimized.

[8uhbbhu8]

10 hours ago, TetraSky said:

Haven't we all looked up how much we'd get for the organs of our annoying sister/brother? No? Just me? Ok then...

Totally not ever. I mean what sort of horrible person would EVER do that?!!!!!!!

[Shreyas1]

The unfiltered truth is that I would be pretty salty about that