Rectal Exam Prank Phone Caller Arrested

Whatever happened to "Is your refrigerator running"? A prank phone caller who convinced a woman to give herself a rectal exam was arrested and charged with second-degree aggravated harassment. The Staten Island Advance explains 49-year-old construction worker John Brady allegedly admitted he "would go through the phone book and pick random numbers and make telephone calls." Claiming to be from a doctor's office, Brady would then (allegedly) tell the person to perform a rectal exam while staying on the phone with him. One woman realized after her self-exam that the caller "did not represent a medical establishment" and the authorities tracked Brady down. The Advance says Brady, who faces up to a year in jail if convicted, has been arrested for previous harassing phone calls "but it's not clear if he's accused of pulling the same prank during those calls as well."

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By Jen Chung in News on December 18, 2008 10:17 AM

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7train

How can anyone fall for this one???

dodgegibson

Said victim was probably disappointed because she didn't get her long-awaited, anonymous phone sex.

Snakefist Von Thunderplug

I don't know why they're raising such a stink. Perhaps, they need to point the finger at someone else.

Paging Lou Sanis to the white courtesy phone.

robingee

I wonder if he advised her to put a glove on first.

Sinchy

So if he was "part of the medical establishment" it would have been OK?

It's like "If the president does it it's not illegal"

Completely obsequious to authority.

I bet this woman would have been a great NAZI- "I was just following orders!"

Future Taliban

A telemarketer can call and convince elderly people to spend their scarce hard-earned cash on some bullshit product or service they don't need WITHOUT BEING CHRGED WITH ANY CRIME yet a phone hoaxter is arrested for this shit?

You American war criminals really are STUPID.

KiljoyWasHere

How did she hold the phone?

Think2wice

Gullible³

Shabe

If we fall for this, what chance to we have vs. Ponzi Schemers?

zodak

my god, we've all been victims of john brady's "prostate exam." well, gentleman, the abuse stops here. i will not turn a brown eye to this. i am gonna sue that bastard and make him pay out the ass. no ifs, ands, or buts. i'm gonna be really anal about this.

sphincter.

nyrangers

this woman's problem is far DEEPER than not having caller ID

JacqueMehoff

don't people have caller ID?

colonelcasey

These are the same people who actually respond to spam messages. The world is full of morons like this.

Dirk

Classic example of social engineering. People just assume the guy is someone of authority and do what they are told.

Read this Wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strip_search_prank_call_scam

"These incidents involved a man calling a restaurant, claiming to be a police detective, and convincing managers to conduct strip-searches of female employees. "

Steven

Those the are the same people who fall for the many scams found on the Internet and those who get viruses and tons of spyware loaded on their computer.

PKinNYC

Patient: Hello this is Mary.

Doc: Hi this is Dr. Anoos.

Patient: Hello Doctor.

Doc: Stick your finger in your ass.

Patient: Excuse me?

Doc: do you need an excuse? Stick it in your

ass.

Patient: I am sorry are you my doctor?

Doc: I don't think you understand what I am

telling you...STICK YOUR FINGER IN YOUR

ASS.

Patient: OK.

Doc: Ha ha shit finger. click.

Rocknrope

Bababooey.

Felix Hoenikker

A year in jail. Really??

'Hello, 'mam? This is Stan Jones from the local cola bottling plant and we're testing the size of our bottles. Could I spare a moment of your time?'

mrguy

this guy needs his own radio show.

and seriously, how can you possibly be that gullible?

thefacts

I know of a lawyer who was also arrested for a similar sick prank about ten years ago.

He would call up hospitals posing as a doctor and request the nurses to give so and so patient an enema.