If I jump out of a corridor and shout "boo" at you, and you have a heart attack, should I be sent to jail?
Duchess of Cambridge's nurse has reportedly been found dead
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If I jump out of a corridor and shout "boo" at you, and you have a heart attack, should I be sent to jail?
I think there is a lot more to than just being very sensitive, I think this women had some mental issues on going before the prank, and I doubt we will ever know if this was the case or not, because that information is very personal.
It just doesn't make sense to why a healthy minded person who has a family would end their life over something so silly. The prank its self was pretty light hearted, so its got to be something to do with how the media exploited the situation and made a person with depression/mental illness want to end their life.
While not directly the same, the 'thin skull' rule covers this from a physical aspect.
Wikipedia page on Eggshell Skull rule
I wonder if this sort of stuff can apply to non-physical cases
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Interesting stuff.
"holds one liable for all consequences resulting from his or her tortious (usually negligent) activities".
Is a prank call tortious? All of the case law on it in Wikipedia is based on actions which are pretty clearly tortious (molten metal, kicking a can, car accident). Vosberg v Putney is the only one which looks comparable, but as it was a US case and looks pretty tenuous, even that's not all that relevant.
I don't know much about all this but if she we're to blame then she'd probably be fired and may find it hard to find another job as a result, I don't know. Plus the negative attention, I don't think you have to be that crazy to see suicide as an option especially given how hard nurses work for their money.
The hospital has already said that they were not going to discipline or blame her.
I *think* they said this before she committed suicide, although am not positive about that.
While my stance on the DJ's haven't changed, they were wrong to what they did and are party responsible for this I can't help but say the Media have had a huge play in this too.
The British gutter press once again have a lot to answer for.
The British gutter press once again have a lot to answer for.
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It was like '20 questions' today at work trying to get information about patients from staff members.
You can't be serious...
Why are people still calling it a prank here?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Practical_joke
As wikipedia correctly says
It was never a prank. As previously stated the victim could potentially have lost their job and embarrassed on a global scale. This has been stated several times by different people in this thread already.
So when people say, can't you take a prank or accept pranks are funny, note that this isn't a prank.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Practical_joke
As wikipedia correctly says
It was never a prank. As previously stated the victim could potentially have lost their job and embarrassed on a global scale. This has been stated several times by different people in this thread already.
So when people say, can't you take a prank or accept pranks are funny, note that this isn't a prank.
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If I cause someone unwelcome severe stress in some way (perhaps even illegal as in this thread, say I trespassed into some old person's house at night to play a "prank") and they have a heart attack, am I partially at fault?
Or was it the fact they were old and had a weak heart?
Or was it the fact they were old and had a weak heart?
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true.
but i can't get over that fact that if they had just sought permission, and then not got it because he woman was clearly upset, then none of this would have happened.
Bad example. You broke the law, they technically did not.
Impersonating somebody to gain confidential information could quite easily be criminal. Given the high profile of those being impersonated and the victim, I wouldn't be surprised if a judge took a heavy-handed approach.
After all, when you get those anti-fraud calls from your bank it is an offence to not hang up if you are not the intended recipient as it could be considered as such.
They were nopt denied permission. From what I understand they repeatedly attempted to get permission, but were ignored? Anyone able to clarify?
Love to know how many people declaring the DJ's basically accountable for murder, have actually listened to the 2 minutes of appalling impressions and corgi barks?
Have you listened to it? Give us the honest answer?
If you had, you'd know they weren't attempting, and didn't get, any confidential information.
thats what they claim but i think the hospital say nobody rang them.
still if they couldn't get permission they shouldn't have run it - it would hardly of been a great loss to them.