Duchess of Cambridge's nurse has reportedly been found dead

Lysander said:
If you work in a hospital you have to deal with a lot of crap. A lot.

A prank call is the least of your worries.
Click to expand...

Beamed across the world for people to laugh at makes it ok? I'd love to see how you'd feel before you can say such things.
 
Her poor family. This is awful. I think those DJs are going to have their lives turned upside down, yet I find it hard to see people are pretty much saying they have blood on their hands, though I suppose it's consistent with the blame culture we live in.

We've all seen and I suspect laughed at pranks like this, but suddenly there's a whole bunch of people taking the moral high ground.

Yes, the DJs were stupid, and personally I find these sort of pranks cringeworthy. But they cannot be held accountable for the nurses's death.
 
Last edited:
estebanrey said:
As I said, if you think you can make one of the most exclusive hospitals in London look like idiots and not consider the possibility that people would lose their jobs over it you are just naive at best, a moron at worst. Whilst they may not have thought she would kill herself, they must have known they were possibly ending her career with that call.

The people who are saying it was just a "harmless prank" are being extremely naive if they think the hospital management would take that view and just laugh about it.

The best this prank was ever going to do was get someone fired and make them a global laughing stock. The chance they may then suffer depression or harm themselves is a pretty clear logical step from there.

I would defend the pranksters more if they'd been two unknown guys trying to make a Youtube video as at least they would have the excuse they had no idea it would go global, but two radio presenters (who know exactly how the industry works and the consequences it would likely get international coverage) should have known better.
Click to expand...

Clearly it isn't a harmless prank, but the outcome could not have been predicted - are you wilfully ignorant of this or do you have perfect clarity of foresight?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20645838

King Edward VII Hospital Statement said:
We can confirm that Jacintha was recently the victim of a hoax call to the hospital.

"The hospital had been supporting her throughout this difficult time.
Click to expand...

So what's your ********, unfounded reasoning now? That the hospital was going to fire her in secret? Lizardmen? Aliens?

Unless your suggestion is that she offed herself because she felt ashamed of what she had done, in which case the blame lies squarely at her feet for being daft enough to disclose it.
 
V F said:
Beamed across the world for people to laugh at makes it ok? I'd love to see how you'd feel before you can say such things.
Click to expand...

I'd feel incredibly embarrassed, obviously

But I wouldn't take my own life...Or not so quickly.

This was so quick.
 
JoeF1 said:
Kind of is. If they didnt do said 'prank' she wouldnt have this intense pressure from the media to lead to this.
Click to expand...

From experiance it was the straw that broke the camels back, if this didn't happen then something else happening to her a few hours/days later would have caused her to kill herself. So althrough the ones who did the prank call deserve a slap for the call itself, no way can they be blamed for her death.
 
estebanrey said:
Because that's the same as what happened here isn't it?

I could ask just as a ridiculous question at the other extreme "If I bullied someone everyday, called them names and constantly harassed them and they killed themselves. Am I to blame?"
Click to expand...

But that is a yes, where as this is a no. You are being silly.
 
Theophany, are you taking the statement that the hospital were supporting her at face value? Obviously they are going to say that.
 
estebanrey said:
Because that's the same as what happened here isn't it?

I could ask just as a ridiculous question at the other extreme "If I bullied someone everyday, called them names and constantly harassed them and they killed themselves. Am I to blame?"
Click to expand...

That didn't happen.
 
Bit if history about 2Day FM:

Prank radio station 2Day FM is already serving two five-year licence probations after serious breaches of the regulator's code.

The broadcaster was handed the first reprimand in 2009 after a 14-year-old girl was attached to a lie detector and pushed into revealing live on air that she had been raped.

The reluctant teenager had been brought on to The Kyle and Jackie O Show by her mother who told the presenters she was worried about her daughter's use of drugs and partying.

The mother asked her daughter: 'Have you ever had sex?'

To which, she replied: 'I’ve already told you the story about this ... and don’t look at me and smile because it’s not funny'. After a pause, the girl added: 'Oh OK, I got raped when I was 12 years old.'

Mr Sandilands then incurred the second licence condition after he called a female journalist a 'fat ****' live on air.
Click to expand...
 
estebanrey said:
I would defend the pranksters more if they'd been two unknown guys trying to make a Youtube video as at least they would have the excuse they had no idea it would go global, but two radio presenters (who know exactly how the industry works and the consequences it would likely get international coverage) should have known better.
Click to expand...

Well, it's certainly a step up from that time when they set up an underage girl to tell on air how she was raped when she was 12.

Pure class those Aussie DJs.
 
dunker said:
shocking! why would she kill herself? was she told off very harshly or something? just makes no sense :(
Click to expand...

Some people will no doubt say she was givin a rollocking over it, but I'm willing to bet that nothing was said to hear after it was explained, that she was mearly the victim of a prank call.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom