Friday, April 21, 2006

Beware Of Door To Door Doctors

I would like to think that none of my family or friends would be dumb enough to fall for this one. Of course, I would think that nobody would find this man believable, but sadly, there were some who did. I hope they don't reproduce.

Beware the door-to-door free breast exam guy
76-year-old Florida man arrested after two women take him up on the offer

Updated: 9:33 p.m. ET April 20, 2006
MIAMI - A 76-year-old man claiming to be a doctor went door-to-door in a Florida neighborhood offering free breast exams and was charged with sexually assaulting two women who accepted the offer, police said Thursday. One woman became suspicious after the man asked her to remove all her clothes and began conducting a purported genital exam without donning rubber gloves, investigators said. The woman then phoned the Broward County Sheriff's Office, and the suspect fled. He was arrested at another woman's apartment in the same Lauderdale Lakes neighborhood on Wednesday, a sheriff's spokesman said.

The white-haired suspect, Philip Winikoff, carried a black bag and claimed to be visiting on behalf of a local hospital. "He told the woman that he was in the neighborhood offering free breast exams," sheriff's spokesman Hugh Graf said in a statement. At least two women, both in their 30s, let him into their homes, and he fondled and sexually assaulted them, the investigators said.
Winikoff was not a doctor, Graf said. He worked as a shuttle driver for an auto dealership.

Ladies, I firmly believe in getting yearly exams but please, please don't try this at home!

1 comment:

Gail at Large said...

I can't believe there are people who would fall for that, either.

I checked out this article on Snopes.com because it seemed so outrageous, and it seems to check out! Even more outrageous!

You might like to also check out the other wacky articles on Snopes.com:

http://www.snopes.com/daily/