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How willing are you to sell your kidneys for the iPhone 6S? These Chinese men certainly were

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Apple’s latest flagship smartphones, the iPhone 6S and the iPhone 6S Plus, are sure to be the talk of the town for the rest of the year. Apparently, the talk is very strong, because two Chinese men identified as Huang and Wu were willing to sell part of their bodies just to get one of the latest iPhones, reports BGR.

According to the report, Huang and Wu wanted to buy the iPhone 6S but lacked the funds to do so. As such, Huang came up with the idea for both men to sell one of their kidneys in order to get some cash. After all, who cares about having one kidney instead of two when you can have the latest iPhone.

Eventually, Huang and Wu used the Internet and successfully found an “agent” who agreed to the transaction. Of course, anyone can just say that their kidneys are just fine, only for others to find out later that they are beyond a train wreck, so the agent had the pair of men checked out at a hospital in Nanjing to make sure their kidneys were just fine.

Both Huang and Wu went to the hospital, but the agent failed to show. Likely the result of actually thinking this plan through, Wu asked Huang to drop the whole thing and move on. Huang refused to do so, resulting in Wu calling the authorities on his friend. Huang is currently on the run and has yet to be tracked down.

It’s bad enough that the pair thought of selling their kidneys, and went as far as visiting a hospital to get the organs checked out, considering such a practice is illegal in many parts of the world. It’s even worse when you consider they wanted to do so in order to get an iPhone 6S. We’re pretty sure many people would prefer to have both kidneys than to live their lives with just one.

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