Tale of vengeful Polish dentist pulling lover’s teeth came out of ether

Article here. This story was reported on MANN a week or so back and this fact that it is a fake story has come to light. Therefore, the story has been deleted from MANN. Excerpt:

'It seemed like just another weird news story dug up from somewhere far away. The kind of story people can’t help clicking on, sharing, talking about.

“A dentist pulled out all her ex-boyfriend’s teeth after he dumped her for another woman — who has now left him because he is toothless,” reported the website of British tabloid the Daily Mail.

MailOnline was first to report the saga of Polish dentist Anna Mackowiak’s vengeful dental work on an ex-boyfriend. Soon the story spread far and wide in the English press.

Fox News, Huffington Post, Yahoo! News, the Los Angeles Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, the New York Post, and the New York Daily News all took a swing at the story, offering takes on their respective websites. On the home front, CBC.ca wrote a blog post citing the Daily Mail story.

Then one killjoy decided to actually call up police in the relevant Polish town for an update on the status of charges against Mackowiak. Police had no idea what the reporter from msnbc.com was talking about. '