It's always nice to have someone else tell you what you can and can't do with yourself... it's amazing masterbation was ever legalized...
Of course, there is a punchline to the story. Apparently, the seller was glad he was caught before he could sell a kidney since he'd been having trouble with one of them lately... man, that would suck to sell off your good kidney!! Customer satisfaction be damned!
Read all about it at CNN's website.CNN.com:
Man fined for Internet kidney sale
Wednesday, July 16, 2003 Posted: 10:49 AM EDT (1449 GMT)
BERLIN, Germany (Reuters) -- A German court has sentenced a man for trying to sell one of his kidneys on the Internet to a four month suspended jail sentence and fined him 2,000 euros ($2,300), authorities said Tuesday.
A spokesman for the court in the western town of Kassel said the 48 year-old Austrian mechanic was accused of violating laws on illegal organ trading for offering his kidney as a "blood purification organ" online at a starting price of 66,500 euros.
He was hoping to use the proceeds to ease his girlfriend's financial worries, said court spokesman Theodor Weber.
"Apparently the firm she worked for was in trouble and he wanted to help them out," he said.
Journalist poses as buyer
A journalist later spotted the advert, and posed as a potential buyer before exposing the unusual money-spinning ruse.
The man made a full confession in court and said he was pleased he still had both kidneys.
"He said he was glad because he'd been having a problem with one of them for a while," Weber said.Copyright 2003 Reuters.
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