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i honestly think that they deserve to sit in jail. no, i don't think that that is an overreaction. they are assholes and they deserve every bit of shame that they get.

did you miss the part where it said the girl died?

Hmm maybe not jail unless charges are pressed for involuntary manslaughter. I don't know how that works though. I think at worst the station will be reprimanded/fined for airing a prank without the consent to air it first from the deceased who was one of the pranked hospital staff. It hasn't been confirmed yet whether or not it was illegal but Austereo say they are confident they didn't break any laws, (because apparently they just want to save their own asses).

I agree completely. This thread is so crazy I can't.

Unlawfully obtaining personal information. I believe the Criminal justice act 2008 allows for a custodial sentence, as well as the fines in the Data Protection Act 1998.

Fucking cunts, that station should be shut down

ugh, fuck this radio station. so disgusting.

also, they seriously had a banner that said "best prank ever"??? what world are these delusional people living in.. even before this tragedy, how was that even funny. what morons

How is this 'Aussie humour' though? It's not like we're the only country that has radio DJs making prank phone calls.

I just can't believe that at no point during the vetting process for this stupid fucking audio clip they didn't consider that at the VERY least the prankees would be publicly humiliated and/or have their jobs endangered. Confidential medical information regarding the royal family was involved, jfc. I can believe that they didn't think they'd get through, but then they did get through, and on top of that it was PRE-RECORDED, so everyone had time to fucking think about it. And they still aired it. That whole ~they weren't doing it to be malicious~ schtick is such a load of bullshit.

While saying the DJs drove this woman to her death or should be put in jail for murder is a little much, I don't think they're at all blameless for humiliating her and putting her job on the line for cheap laughs. Those things in and of themselves are horrible, and that it may have contributed to her committing suicide is just tragic.

I think that one of the things really bothering me about the whole fire them/don't fire them debate is that ultimately, firing them (if it happens) won't mean anything. The radio station behind this CLEARLY doesn't have a problem with the types of actions their DJs are taking, or else this wouldn't have been so incredibly hyped up. The kind of thoughtless, petty, cruel-but-omg-I-was-just-joking!!!! mentality on display here is absolutely disgusting, and so much in line with a lot of the things wrong with the collective western culture. Attitudes like that cause suicides all the fucking time, and the fact that this was all pre-recorded and gleefully extolled upon with no thought of the consequences is just... IDEK. Predictable. Disgusting. Typical of bullies, and of people who never want to admit that they're wrong. People who think that if they're laughing, and maybe someone else is laughing, that their actions and words don't hold real consequence, and any negative reaction to them is OTT and the other person's fault and ~omg you guys just get over it~.

A woman is dead because of those attitudes, and she isn't alone. I'm pretty sure everyone who reads this comment has heard about more than just scenario in terms of words/taunting resulting in suicide, if they don't actually know someone who killed themselves personally because of the same. I do. I dealt with similar feelings, because years of being bullied as a child doesn't just go AWAY, and you can be set off by people bringing that cruelty back into your adult life.

Those DJs are pigs. The radio station deserves to be shut down. The entire mentality of humour justifying cruelty needs to fucking stop.

ok I'm not playing the ontd PhD card but I have worked in mental health and in hospitals, and confidentiality is a major issue to anyone trained to work in those fields. So if this poor woman got flustered and those DJs caused her to panic and go against everything she was taught and patch the call through I can see why she would be devastated. I know I would have felt like I failed as a professional. It was cruel and reckless to do this horrible "prank" on a woman who would naturally take it very seriously. Its unfair and unkind to assume that she was just waiting for some excuse to take her own life. This proves that the prank was unethical to the highest degree.

Like wow at this thread. All of you self righteous people didn't think this was kind of funny before her death? Not even a little bit? You all thought it was grave and tasteless and and of course you'd never say anything to embarrass someone or be rude to someone you didn't know, for fear of their unknown mental state.
Calling for jail time??? Give me a break. This fucking site says worse about people, famous and otherwise, and publicly embarrasses people every fucking day of the week.

this.

they won't be fired. the radio station is 2dayFM and they employ the #1 most hated man on radio, kyle sandilands. "vile kyle" is pretty much hated by the australian public, every 6 or so months there's controversy surrounding him and the fucked up things he says on air (called a journalist a fat slag because she didn't give him a good review; asked a 14 year old rape victim if her rape was her only sexual experience; etc etc). every time the public calls for his sacking, he gets off with a 'warning' and sometimes a suspension at the most. they'll never fire him because "ratings!!!!!!!!!"

these two fuckwits will be back on the air in no time.

i don't give austereo that much credit. they probably see this whole thing as a huge opportunity for RATINGS~~~

you know the nurses got bitched out.

this was probably just the straw that broke the camel's back for this poor woman.

idk whole goddamn thing is a mess.

idgaf about royals ~uppity colonialist~ but this prank was tacky as hell since even if they didn't expect to get put through Kate deserves privacy in her medical issues. I know tabs try and get confidential medical info but there should be laws against that shit.

not that say rupert murdock would care.

Wow.

damn that sucks about your job. people are nuts.

i know england doesn't have HIPPA like we do in the USA but my mom was a nurse and then we did the flip side when she was sick and they don't fucking play with the privacy stuff. So i don't believe that hospital for a second when they say they backed their staff. they had to have bitched those nurses out. And considering it's the mother of the future ruler of Britain i'd be shocked if someone didn't get fired. that was before this tragic death, now maybe nobody will, but there is no way someone wouldn't have lost their job. I agree completely. The hospital is trying to cover their own butts.

I"m really concerned for her kids.

This story is still baffling to me. I don't understand any of it. I know the facts but I just don't understand the thought process behind it and I don't understand how people are reacting to it. How were people responding to this prior the nurse's suicide?

It is in poor taste but I kind of see how they thought it wouldn't be a big deal. Because I would have never thought something like this would last more than 5 seconds.
I feel very bad for thinking this about a woman who was so deeply shaken by this that she committed suicide but how could she fall for it?
How can a person living in Britain think that the Queen would call the hospital reception landline herself?
I just don't understand how this could happen.

The radio station, the Djs, and whoever specifically ok'd this are assholes. As much as we want to say it was a harmless prank because they thought they'd get hung up on, the fact is they didn't and it was pre-recorded. They HAD to know,all involved that is, that because it went through and they got info SOMEONE was probably going to get in trouble or possibly fired and they STILL went through with it for their own gain (ratings, whatever). To me that changes things. Once you put someone elses livelihood in danger that's no longer harmless. it wasn't like this was live. It wasn't like they couldn't have stopped and not aired it. Instead the parties involved thought the joke was "funnier" than whatever the consequences for anyone else would be.

I never got how the prank was supposed to be funny in the first place. Who even prank calls a hospital? Radio djs really are the worst.

I think that "just for laugh gags" has it down to an art-- a prank that seems cruel ISN'T cruel when you let the person in on it before any real harm is done, and you don't try to humiliate them for falling for your set up. The joke shouldn't be to make someone feel badly about themselves.

Disgusting, absolutely disgusting.

This whole thing is so stupid. It's sad that she killed herself but suicide is a personal choice and they aren't responsible for her death.