So that UK Nurse that got pranked...

[RogerSmith 72]

The video maybe, but the situations are not.

 

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[FastCargo 412]

Alright, knock it off.

 

Keep the discussion civil and the sarcasm to a low roar....

 

FC

[SayethWhaaaa 245]

Interesting article on how, in the days since the prank, the British tabloids have really opened up the throttle on the fury and hypocrisy and how barely anyone over there is scrutinising the hospital at all.

 

http://www.news.com.au/national/right-royal-hypocrites-telling-it-like-it-is-or-witch-hunt/story-fndo4eg9-1226533660692

[+logan4 847]

Rog, you missed the point again. The point is that no one can predict what will be the reactions of others to any sudden - even sometimes funny - tricks, pranks, jokes or even predict that the prank will go down the way they expect in their planing.

22 years ago while in the army, at the base there were two best friends in the guard squad. Very close to the end of their service time they were in the readyness room, loaded weaps, live ammo, etc. One of them from joke pointed the AMD65 at the head of his friend with only one hand, but the same time he miscalculated the weight of the msg and his finger slipped to the trigger to keep it in the air he wanted. The only problem was the weap was on single round setting and he splattered his friend's brain all over the wall. Did he broke some regulations, yes certainly, but hey, it did look like a funny joke to begin with.

[MigBuster 2,884]

How did they cross the line? No reasonable person would seriously believe a fairly innocuous prank call would lead to someone commiting suicide. Or are you just butthurt because royalty is involved? :D

 

Sorry if you don't understand what I've written - this has nothing to do with royalty its about putting that nurse in a position where she could lose her job.

[RogerSmith 72]

Rog, you missed the point again. The point is that no one can predict what will be the reactions of others to any sudden - even sometimes funny - tricks, pranks, jokes or even predict that the prank will go down the way they expect in their planing.

22 years ago while in the army, at the base there were two best friends in the guard squad. Very close to the end of their service time they were in the readyness room, loaded weaps, live ammo, etc. One of them from joke pointed the AMD65 at the head of his friend with only one hand, but the same time he miscalculated the weight of the msg and his finger slipped to the trigger to keep it in the air he wanted. The only problem was the weap was on single round setting and he splattered his friend's brain all over the wall. Did he broke some regulations, yes certainly, but hey, it did look like a funny joke to begin with.

 

There's a difference between stupidity and a prank, pointing a loaded weapon with safety off at someone's face has seriously obvious life threatening dangers. Pranking a nurse, not so much.

Edited December 11, 2012 by RogerSmith

[RogerSmith 72]

I've heard the tapes on the Radio and the nurse who committed suicide only talked to the DJ for 6 seconds, he last words? They were "Yes?" and "Yes Ma'am", that's it. The nurse who gave out the information was a totally different nurse. The nurse who committed suicide didn't even release any info she just transferred the call to a 2nd nurse. The true criminals here are the Dead nurse's colleagues for constant teasing and belittlement towards her at work way before the call even took place, They were a**holes to her, and somehow slip by without repercussions or notice.

 

But it still confuses me why she would commit suicide when she wasn't the one who made the mistake. Could be just a coincidence that she chose that same week to kill herself and now her kids' lives are ruined; and now the DJs' lives because the media trying to be judge, jury and executioner before they even get their facts straight.

 

Anyways, I think this is getting attention only because of Royal Fanatics in the newsrooms are being butthurt and the fact that these two countries don't seem to like each other that much, if this was just a random UK citizen that was pranked you wouldn't have heard a peep on world news or maybe even the local UK news.

 

Did you guys over in the UK hear about the Fort Hood shooting on the news 24/7? A man who killed people on purpose? Something that never started as harmless in the first place? A traitor in the Army yelling aloud "Allah Ackbar" whilst shooting our service men and women? Probably not.

Edited December 11, 2012 by RogerSmith

[fallenphoenix1986 603]

Actually yes, we did.

As for getting butt-hurt over the fact Royals are involved, more than a few of us could gladly live the rest of our lives never hearing a word about them or from them.

 

 

Craig

[RogerSmith 72]

Actually yes, we did.

As for getting butt-hurt over the fact Royals are involved, more than a few of us could gladly live the rest of our lives never hearing a word about them or from them.

 

 

Craig

 

Well, at least the Royals are classy. We have the Kardashians :\

[fallenphoenix1986 603]

So do we unfortunatly :(

 

Classy? Prince Philip, 'nough said lol

 

Craig

[RogerSmith 72]

So do we unfortunatly :(

 

Classy? Prince Philip, 'nough said lol

 

Craig

 

This post is the Like button (already reached "Like" quota today)

[zzzspace 2]

It's just plain wrong to do 'Radio Pranks'

 

Imagine if a Radio Prankster called the US Government, to say that the Pentagon was going to be attacked in a 9/11 type way?...wtf do you think would happen to them?...they'd get lynched!

It's inexcusable... and they should be made to pay!

 

Lighten up, that's a thoroughly inapplicable strawman. US TV is full of pranksters, we see that rubbish all the time, where they're winding someone up on purpose. Punking seems to be a US national hobby. What the radio station presenters did was called light humour and entertainment and it happens every where every day. And people don't just kill themselves over something like this. There's obviously something more going on there, much more than we can see. And it is none of our damn speculative business what it is either. I felt sick when I heard she was dead, very sad.

 

Basically in Australia taking the piss out of Royalty is a National Art, and one the media in particular loves to indulge. And not just Australian media either. Plus everyone's all gung-ho for Queen and country in the UK these days, and it's hard to look at that and take it seriously, like the 80% 'popularity'. Whatever.

 

Then there's the media already imposing on the morning-sickness issue in the days immediately prior to all this, and how the Royals were asking for the media to respect privacy. Yeah well, that should have been a red flag to back off and tread lightly, but some idiot radio executive-producer thought it an opportunity.

 

Ok, maybe there's a case to answer there, but death threat? Buggar-off.

 

All that prior stuff just pump-primed this huge over-reaction, firstly of the nurse. Do you think her response was not pump-primed as well by media, and collegial collective embarrassment, and whatever else going on in the background? And the hospital. And the media ... and the public ... and more media ... and more public bile ... and more media bile ...

 

The stupidity of the whole situation is horrifyingly banal and ill, including the neurotic social-media deadbeats talking puss, out of chronic boredom. But continuing these over-reactions, media, and personal, and back a gain, amplifying it some more, is just as sad, and just as ill. What an incredibly regrettable situation. So crushing for that family. The best we can do is stop poking at the family's wound and the shame of others with our verbal sticks. Enough sadness and stupidness has been created here. Let it go die in the corner and not do that.

Edited December 13, 2012 by zzzspace

[Grinseed 19]

The nurse who committed suicide did not pass on any information about the royal morning sickness, she merely directed the call to another nurse in the relevant ward, who despite the obvious sham impersonation of the royal 'we' and fake corgi barking in the background, dutifully revealed all to who she thought was her blessed Queen and Prince Regent. You think she really committed suicide solely because she passed on a phone enquiry? I would suggest she got her arse kicked first.

It appears some notes she wrote were found in her flat and in at least one she allegedly mentions unfair treatment at the hospital, which has been furiously denied, of course. The hospital, in defence of its own vaunted royal reputation has focussed attention on the two 'shock jocks'.

The two 'shock jocks' are emotionally devastated. Be serious, they didn't set out to have anyone kill themselves, and the prank was not their own idea, but that of the radio station management, who for the most part have escaped personal retribution of any sort because their identity has been obscured by the heat focussed on the two djs who have been publically crucified. The howling members of the international lynch mob seeking some bizarre sense of revenge can relax, their nascent media careers of these two dimwits have been totally destroyed and and the shadow of this woman's sad death will be hanging over them for the rest of their lives.

 

Prank calls have been a feature of media broadcasts for decades. They are a bloody pointless nuisance and the lowest expression of modern communication and deserve the greatest criticism. You will find recent examples on youtube, where unsuspecting people are recorded being prodded to raging infuriation in a perverted attempt at 'entertainment'. Yet, up to now, there has been no serious attempt to discourage the practice, because most people aren't usually expected to hang themselves because of a prank call. They usually do it after protracted mistreatment.

This poor woman certainly had more issues than has so far been revealed, but for the moment, its easier to demonise and condemn the two djs than to find the real lesson from this woman's suicide.

Let the heat pass, allow some light in, my money is on the inquest revealing more unpleasantries all around.

 

 

In any case, for what its worth, real victims of this awful event are this woman's children.

 

[Ruggbutt 45]

Suicide is cowardly and shows a weakness of mind and spirit. If she killed herself because of a prank then maybe it's for the best. Don't want those inferior genes floating about, do we?

[JediMaster 451]

She already had kids IIRC. Too late.