Duchess of Cambridge's nurse has reportedly been found dead
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In my opinion the point where you have to consult the lawyers as to whether or not to broadcast is a litmus test in itself.
The station didn't make a harmless prank call to a pizza shop, it called a hospital who care for the sick. That was a display of poor judgement by the hosts but incompetence by their legal advisors and management to proceed with the broadcast.
What has since unfolded is the unfortunate case of somebody who in all likelihood was already unwell being pushed over the edge. It is however debatable as to how close to the edge this person was before the incident.
To put into context the nurse was in her mid forties and career committed. This one seemingly innocuous incident was globally broadcast and was detrimental to her reputation. This could have been a real threat to her career. This incident was not the same as a stranger being rude to you being the final straw.
The station didn't make a harmless prank call to a pizza shop, it called a hospital who care for the sick. That was a display of poor judgement by the hosts but incompetence by their legal advisors and management to proceed with the broadcast.
What has since unfolded is the unfortunate case of somebody who in all likelihood was already unwell being pushed over the edge. It is however debatable as to how close to the edge this person was before the incident.
To put into context the nurse was in her mid forties and career committed. This one seemingly innocuous incident was globally broadcast and was detrimental to her reputation. This could have been a real threat to her career. This incident was not the same as a stranger being rude to you being the final straw.
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Not really surprised by the media's reaction, condescending hypocrites that they are.
Just put everything on those two idiots and stoke up that fire. Just them! Don't look at us, and our 24 hours a day coverage of the Royals milling about, our cameras and crews rubbernecking above hospitals and nursing staff, and our insatiable appetite for Royal ****.
Just put everything on those two idiots and stoke up that fire. Just them! Don't look at us, and our 24 hours a day coverage of the Royals milling about, our cameras and crews rubbernecking above hospitals and nursing staff, and our insatiable appetite for Royal ****.
Well obviously not - that is purely incidental.... the DJs had malicious intentions from the outset, while they couldn't predict the suicide they were happy to potentially put people's jobs on the line and cause them unnecessary stress, humiliation... let millions of people have a laugh at their expense.
The DJs duped her and her co-worker in front of a global audience - It was controversial before she committed suicide with plenty of people criticising them for wasting the nurses time, breaching privacy etc..etc.. phoning a ward of sick people at 5am.
If you took the mickey out of/played a prank on someone at work perhaps, in front of the rest of the office, then the next day they committed suicide you wouldn't be too surprised if you became rather unpopular in the office irrespective of the likelihood that the person might have had other things going on behind the scenes.
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are the dj's directly responsible for her death - no
but who the hell prank calls a hospital for gods sake! could be life and death distracting people who are very busy and not only that but the butt of the joke being a nurse who is just trying to help
prank calls are the most stupid lame joke possible anyway
people on here are disgusting at the lack of empathy on display, typical internet mentality that just because you would cope with a certain situation that means that any one else should as well
but who the hell prank calls a hospital for gods sake! could be life and death distracting people who are very busy and not only that but the butt of the joke being a nurse who is just trying to help
prank calls are the most stupid lame joke possible anyway
people on here are disgusting at the lack of empathy on display, typical internet mentality that just because you would cope with a certain situation that means that any one else should as well
It's juvenile. It's even worse that they get paid for wasting other peoples time.
Short interview with the DJs
They do seem remorseful but their careers will be in tatters now so I have no sympathy
They do seem remorseful but their careers will be in tatters now so I have no sympathy
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Viewership? Do they have webcams?
Agreed, mostly. Plus, if the tough guys experienced something like this directly I'm sure their opinions might change...
People with this 20-20 hindsight are really starting to bug me now!
How many pranks have you watched or listened to over the years? How many of those might have ended up differently with a pinch of such misfortune? How many of them have you found funny, but given a similar turn of events may have embarrassed someone (mentally unstable enough) into suicide? How many times have you jumped out from behind a door to shock someone? Should we all stop doing this encase they have an unforeseen heart attack?
So here we have a prank where some DJs phoned up with dodgy accents, not even expecting to get anywhere, but amazingly did... Even so, what harm was intended, or in reality actually done? Some embarrassment for the hospital staff at worse, but which unfortunately (& unbelievably) caused a suicide.
Now here we have people running around with pitch forks seemingly crying out for the blood of the DJs? It's pathetic! No harm was meant, and what harm could possibly have been forecast? Really?
To those people now wishing the DJs to pay in some way, they need to take a reality check. Bad things sometimes happen and no one is to blame. This is such a case.
We cannot be expected to pussy-foot around every potential outcome just because of what might happen, no matter how unimaginably unlikely it might be.
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I agree that the outcome has pretty much been the worst case scenario, but, I don't know, they were still calling a 'serious' place with the intention of deceiving staff over a patient's confidential details. Not exactly clever in any sense!
Great post. 100% agree.
Have you listened to the call? What "confidential details" did they try and deceive the staff into giving? Was it during the bit where they pretended to bark like corgi's?
Yes, they phoned a hospital, which of course is always questionable, but in reality we're talking about a reception, and a couple of minutes. It's hardly calling a doctor out of open heart surgery.
It was a tad foolish, but in absolutely no way malicious. Let's remember that. And if it were not for a mentally unstable person (for what ever reasons) taking their own life, we'd not be thinking twice about it.
Disagree with the last point, I don't think there was any real intent or expectation that they'd succeed with the call. Dodgy accents, corgis in the background it was meant to be over the top slapstick not a serious attempt to deceive.
I don't really blame the pair to be honest, it was a poorly thought out and cheap method of entertainment but the nurses responce to it can't be considered expected or indeed normal.
It is however just another tragic example of the ever growing attitude of irresponsibility and assumption of being absolved from any effect of your actions. You see the exact same attitude all around you on a daily basis.
It is however just another tragic example of the ever growing attitude of irresponsibility and assumption of being absolved from any effect of your actions. You see the exact same attitude all around you on a daily basis.