Surprise, surprise! Vengeful dentist story is a hoax
Really? There were journalists who actually believed the story about the Polish dentist who got revenge on her ex by pulling out all of his teeth?
Msnbc.com did some fact-checking and found that police in Wroclaw, Poland, where this supposedly occurred, have no record of the case.
A legal adviser for Poland’s Chamber of Physicians and Dentists, which handles disciplinary matters, said the organization is not investigating and has never investigated any such case, and added that there is no dental practitioner named Anna Maćkowiak listed in Poland’s central register of dentists.
Msnbc.com correspondent Erin Tennant adds: “Most online news outlets in Poland left the story alone.” They weren’t as hot for pageviews as American news outlets?
* Dentist pulls ex’s teeth: America can’t resist the story (LAT)
* Vengeful jilted dentist story was too good to be true (MSNBC.com)
If this had supposedly happened in the U.S., the hoax would have been revealed sooner. It is much easier to check out a U.S. story than a foreign story.