A 38-year-old unemployed man from Vienna has offered to sell one of his kidneys for 150,000 euros ($246,507) to fund the purchase of an apartment, a report said overnight.
"Special offer. Who needs my kidney? Healthy, non-smoker. Fixed price: 150,000 euros," ...read the advertisement he posted in the city's underground railway network, Heute newspaper reported.
The man named only as Josef V told the newspaper he hoped to buy an apartment in Vienna, lease it to someone else and live off the proceeds so he would not have to seek work.
A television program about kidney donors gave him the idea, he said.
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"Special offer. Who needs my kidney? Healthy, non-smoker. Fixed price: 150,000 euros," ...read the advertisement he posted in the city's underground railway network, Heute newspaper reported.
The man named only as Josef V told the newspaper he hoped to buy an apartment in Vienna, lease it to someone else and live off the proceeds so he would not have to seek work.
A television program about kidney donors gave him the idea, he said.
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,16621766-13762,00.html