Oh boy!
A British man reportedly called into a taxpayer-funded medical hotline pretending to be an older woman to get phone operators to talk about their feet.
Forty-five-year-old Worthing resident Richard William Cove has quite a thing for feet. Over a two-year period, he made a total of 1,263 calls to National Health Service 111, which serves as a non-emergency 911 number. Cove’s fetish ultimately cost the service over $30,000.
“He said he had a sexual foot fetish which he indulged during most of the calls,” says David Quayle of the Sussex Police. Cove proudly admitting to authorities the calls were all for his personal enjoyment and benefit.
Richard would allegedly call the medical hotline providing numerous fake addresses and alleging to have foot issues using a disguised older woman’s voice. A foot-obsessed Cove did this in hopes of the operators volunteering information about their own feet so that he could pleasure himself. Police caught up with him due to a complaint from someone who claimed to have received follow-up calls from the hotline, which they never originally called, and all roads led back to Richard William Cove.
Cove pled guilty Tuesday to one count of malicious communications and is set to be sentenced on September 13.
