| Like it or not, Reality TV Shows seem to be | | | | have happened before. A member of the British |
| everywhere. Unless you are a TV pariah you will | | | | military was sent the smuggled kidney of an |
| have no doubt experienced the joys of such shows | | | | executed Chinese prisoner as a birthday prank. He did |
| as "Big Brother", "There's Something about Miriam", | | | | the only reasonable thing: marinated it in a cream |
| "Lapdance Island" and "Space Cadets". | | | | bechamel sauce with a tomato paste. By all accounts |
| The latest addition to this list of mind boggling reality | | | | it was delicious. |
| shows is BNN's "The Big Donor Show" to be aired on | | | | Use it as a dowry. If you simply can't get rid of a |
| Friday the 1st of June for Dutch viewers. The 80 | | | | troublesome daughter then your extra kidney could |
| minute show invites viewers to send in their advice | | | | be your saviour. An increasingly common practice in |
| and opinions to help a critically ill woman choose the | | | | south and west India is to sell off a kidney in order |
| best possible recipient of her kidney from among 3 | | | | to pass on your daughter. According to medical |
| contenders. | | | | anthropologist Lawrence Cohen, parents can no |
| Though the show's concept has been ridiculed and | | | | longer complain about being unable to raise a dowry. |
| declared unethical by many political parties, kidney | | | | "Haven't you got a spare kidney?" |
| specialists and donor authorities, BNN's chairman is | | | | Make kidney stones. A handy way to avoid months |
| protecting the show and its concept, saying: "The | | | | of agonising post-op pain and a lifetime of single |
| chance for a kidney for the contestants is 33%. This | | | | kidney-dom is to keep your kidneys in their rightful |
| is much higher than that for people on a waiting list". | | | | place and turn your attentions to growing kidney |
| This is all in very poor taste, but this being the least | | | | stones. All you have to do is pee them out and sell |
| of our concerns, we've come up with our top five | | | | them on. One of William Shatner's stones recently |
| things to do with your spare kidney. After all, | | | | sold for a mammoth $25,000. Nice work if you can |
| everyone's got one. | | | | get it. |
| Top five ways to use your extra kidney | | | | Transplant it. Probably the only legal method to get |
| Sell it. The black market trade in organs, especially | | | | rid of an unwanted kidney is simply, give it to |
| kidneys, is burgeoning. Dodgy backstreet doctors will | | | | someone else. Preferably someone who's going to |
| relieve you of your spare organ for a tasty wad of | | | | use it as a kidney and not as an ornamental paper |
| cash, but be careful about where you go. It's much | | | | weight. |
| better to use the organ pirates of Brazil, where you | | | | Just to make it clear before any of you rush off to |
| could earn up to $10,000, than the bandits of | | | | your local backstreet butcher to start making your |
| Baghdad who'll only offer a meagre $1,400. | | | | organs pay please, please, please don't. Having a |
| Eat it. You're carrying around your very own main | | | | kidney removed will really hurt. A lot. And you'll spend |
| course and you won't even put on any weight by | | | | the rest of your life in fear that your one remaining |
| eating it. We can only find one reported instance of a | | | | kidney will die of loneliness, leaving you right up the |
| man eating a human kidney, although it's bound to | | | | Loop of Henle. |