A 17-year-old teenage boy in the Anhui province in eastern China has reportedly sold a kidney in order to purchase Apple's new iPad 2. Somehow the organ was surgically removed without his parents' knowledge or consent, and sold for a total of RMB22,000 (roughly $3K USD) to a company seeking organs in an online advertisement.

Naturally his mother grew suspicious when she saw the new toys. "I wanted to know how he had got so much money and he finally confessed that he had sold one of his kidneys," she told the TV station while revealing the boy's new scar.

She took the boy back to Chenzhou and reported the crime to the police. The hospital admitted to contracting out its urology department to a private businessman in Fujian, but denied that it performed surgery on the teen. To make matters worse, law enforcement has been unable to get in contact with the three agents the boy contacted through the online advertisement.

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The kid stated "I wanted to buy an iPad 2, but I didn't have the money". When i first heard this on the radio here in the U.S. i literally laughed out loud. I mean what extreem motivation drives you so madly crazy to get your kidney taken out (Which probably costed a pretty penny itself with hospital bills, although i dont really kno China's healthcare plan) in order to get the ipad 2? Personally if i wanted it that bad my first option wouldnt just be "ima get my kidney taken out", I would get a second job or some other idea to get a little income. Isnt this insane? What do u think about this?