Chinese teen sells kidney to buy iPad 2

Chinese teen sells kidney to buy iPad 2
By Indo Asian News Service:
Beijing, June 3, 2011 (IANS/RIA Novosti) -A teenager in China’s Anhui province has sold his right kidney to buy an iPad 2. Seventeen-year-old Xiao Zheng had been dreaming of a new iPad 2 for a while, but the price was beyond his means. Zheng found an agent ready to buy his kidney and travelled to Hunan province in central China to undergo surgery in a local hospital. With the 22,000 yen ($3,900) he was paid, Zheng bought a new iPad 2 and iPhone and then returned home, according to a report on the Dongfang TV channel Thursday. After his mother learned the truth, she travelled with her son back to the hospital, only to discover that the operating theater had been rented out for commercial use to a businessman from Fujian province. Several attempts to reach the agents failed, as their phones were switched off.