A 53-year-old German woman who was driving her dead mother across country to save on mortuary transportation costs was fined by police for disturbing a dead person’s peace. You’re not allowed to transport dead people in your private car,” said Ralf Schomisch, police spokesman in Koblenz, where the car was found after a tip-off from a mortuary. “The corpse was on the back seat without a seat belt, which in this case didn’t really matter. But it was covered up with clothing. It is a misdemeanor.”
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 on 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.
Procter & Gamble Co. is looking into a report that an Iowa woman found a dead turtle in a package of its Folgers coffee, the company said on Friday. P&G spoke with the woman, Marjorie Morris, on Thursday. The incident was reported by the Associated Press. Morris says she found the turtle in a vacuum-packed brick package of Folgers coffee. She transferred the coffee to a plastic container for storage in the refrigerator and no longer has the original packaging, a spokeswoman for P&G said. Morris is sending the animal to P&G for investigation. “We believe that this is an isolated incident,” P&G spokeswoman Susanne Dusing told Reuters. P&G, which makes Folgers and Millstone coffees, said it was not aware of any other such incidents. According to the AP report, Morris, of Ainsworth, Iowa, said she does not plan to sue Folgers. The report comes months after Wendy’s International Inc. saw its sales suffer after a woman claimed she had found a piece of human finger in a bowl of the burger chain’s chili. The woman and her husband were later arrested and pleaded guilty to charges that they planted the finger in the chili to obtain compensation from Wendy’s.
A homeless man searching through garbage bins for recyclable cans found a missing wallet and had it returned to its owner. Kim Bogue, who works as a janitor in the city’s government buildings, realized that her wallet was missing last week and doubted she’d ever get back the $900 and credit cards inside, she said. “I prayed that night and asked God to help me,” said Bogue, who was saving the money for a trip to her native Thailand. Days later, a homeless man found the wallet wrapped in a plastic bag in a trash bin, where Bogue had accidentally thrown it away with her lunch. He gave it to Sherry Wesley, who works in a nearby building. “He came to me with the wad of money and said, ‘This probably belongs to someone that you work with, can you return it,’” Wesley said. Workers at a nearby relief kitchen said the man, who didn’t want to be identified, insists on paying for his food. “He has a very good heart,” said Bogue, who gave the man a $100 reward. “If someone else found it, the money would be gone.”
