76-year-old Fla. man arrested for providing free door-to-door breast exams

[RagingInMiami]

Philip Winikoff walked up to the door of the Lauderdale Lakes apartment carrying a black medical bag.

He told the woman inside he was a doctor from ''North Miami Hospital,'' going door- to-door offering free breast exams.

But authorities say the 76-year-old Winikoff was no doctor. And the medical bag wasn't his, but his wife's. She is a registered nurse.

On Wednesday, Broward sheriff's deputies arrested Winikoff on charges of sexual battery and simple assault. Winikoff allegedly fondled the breasts of two women and then sexually assaulted them.

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/14383140.htm

[Robeson]

1. You know, a person just can't make-up this stuff.

[RagingInMiami]

4. It's what we call an "only in Florida" story

[SlavesandBulldozers]

15. exactly.

placing this in the same column of the guy who bludgeoned his roomate to death with two hammers because of a lack of toilet paper.

[Brigid]

2. Now wait a minute here . . .

Somebody shows up at your door, out of the blue, and offers free breast exams? Who in their right mind is going to fall for that?

[regnaD kciN]

3. Obviously, two people did...

...and I bet there are a lot of people in Nigeria dying to find out their e-mail addresses.

:eyes:

[GirlinContempt]

5. The 35-year-old victim is from Haiti and speaks little English.

''Perhaps these women, these victims, didn't have this type of healthcare opportunity in their country of origin,'' Graf said. ``Maybe they felt this was something not uncommon, but whatever reason they had for becoming victims certainly doesn't take away from the heinous nature of the crime.''

[RagingInMiami]

6. Only a new immigrant believes that our healthcare system is so efficient

that we offer door-to-door breast examinations. Once the immigrants have been here a while, they learn what all Americans know, that our healthcare system is no different from the system they left behind. It serves only the rich.

[GirlinContempt]

7. No more link in your sigline?

And, it just rubs me the wrong way to see this "What are these people STUPID" crap when people don't bother to read the articles, or don't have even a little empathy for another in a different situation.

[RagingInMiami]

8. I had to remove the link

Because it was a direct link to the artist's home page and he had since updated it with a newer, non-immigration piece, suddenly making my link irrelevant.

I'm sure it's still out there somewhere in cyberspace, so if I find it, I will put it back in.

[GirlinContempt]

9. Try this link

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2006/04/05/fiorephobia.DTL

[AirmensMom]

16. Thank you, GirlinContempt.

I saw another thread about this and it hit me the same way.

[RagingInMiami]

10. Thanks!

My sig is back up again. That video still makes me laugh out loud.

Just the tone of that guy's voice panicking about the Mexicans. Or the Chinese. Or the Italians. Or the Irish.

Should be required viewing for all schoolchildren.

[Fleshdancer]

11. am I the only one who suspected Matcom at first?

:shrug:

[realisticphish]

13. actually

it's rather suspicious that matcom didn't post this as MatcomNews...

[RagingInMiami]

14. The reason I posted this at 2:55 a.m.

Was because I saw my chance of beating Matcom at his own game. For once.

[Orrex]

12. "fondled the breasts of two women and then sexually assaulted them"

Isn't the fondling a sexual assault all by itself?

If not, does that mean we're all free to grope whomever we choose?

[APPLE314]

17. TURN YOUR HEAD AND COUGH. N/T

[Left Is Write]

18. I saw that on the news.

Bizarre.