Motherâs horror as man sells iPad to buy kidney
The mother of a Chinese man has spoken of her horror after finding out that her son, identified only as âBig Zhengâ, had arranged the sale of one of his iPads to fund the purchase of a kidney in a shady internet transaction. The 43-year-old told a local TV station that he had arranged the deal after seeing an online advert offering human kidneys to those willing to have their Apple consumer products removed. He confessed that, as a man with near-total kidney failure, he had an âadmittedly shallowâ interest in the human renal function, and had long been obsessed with what UrinaryWorld magazine recently voted âmost essential organ of all timeâ. The story only came to light after the manâs mother became suspicious after noticing a âgaping holeâ in her sonâs iPad docking station where the device would usually be charging in preparation for another day fulfilling essential bodily requirements. Her attention was also drawn to the fact that her son no longer seemed interested in his old dialysis machine, preferring to go out playing squash and enjoying a beer afterwards. âWhen he came home that night,â explained his mother, âhe had an unusual spring in his step and no problem excreting waste materials via his urine. I knew at once something was up. I wanted to know how he had got enough money to buy a new kidney and he finally confessed that he had sold one of his iPads. I was shattered.â âI canât believe he did it,â sobbed his mother. He might feel like he can live without it now, but he doesnât know what losing an iPad could mean. If his other one ever stops working heâll have no way of surfing Flash-free websites on the move â that could be the end of him!â This case highlights Chinaâs shocking black market in iPad trafficking. A scarcity of the desirable devices has led many naive unfortunates vulnerable to selling their cherished devices for large sums of money, even in the knowledge that the grim transaction will leave them dangerously short of Angry Birds capability.