Kate hoax nurse found dead

[LatteLiberal]

00:49 - 08:49
Exactly 8 hours sleep. Spot on the health guidelines..

Well spotted that man!

[Homer Simpson]

I had a few beers last night, so my opions may have been written in a more intense fashion than normal.

Now, unfettered by alcohol, I meant to say that I thought the nurses suicide was a tragic overreaction. These kind of hoaxes are common, although this one was in bad taste.

Here's to alcohol: the cause of, and solution to, all of your life's problems!

[DodgyAgent]

What a stupid bint, it was a hoax call that happens every day. The radio presenters should be applauded for making fun of the Royal muppets.

I have just been reading about this story and this sort of response to the behaviour of these Australian idiots displays everything that is wrong with western culture. It does not matter that the object of their "joke" was the royal family (it does but that is another matter) its the ignorance and complete lack of understanding or sensitivity to other people.

there are well documented suicides that have been caused by pranks - google them. To the perpetrators it is funny as Libby Purves argues in the Times today "its a larf innit".

Well it isn't because the woman who killed herself had been brought up in a society that (rightly or wrongly) had great respect for the royal family and presumably other people and institutions. The thought that she had let the royal family down was so disgraceful that she killed herself. There does not seem to be any evidence that she was a nutter.

As for the jerks who jerks upon who the joke backfired I have no sympathy at all.

[Bunk]

I disagree Dodgy. I don't think any reasonable person could have foreseen this outcome from the prank. The nurse's suicide is tragic certainly, but I don't believe the prank and 'humiliation' caused by it would have driven most people to suicide so I wonder if she was prone to depression already. If that is the case then I don't think the presenters can be held directly responsible. I wonder if the same people issuing death threats against them were having a good laugh at the prank before it all went wrong.

[eek]

I have just been reading about this story and this sort of response to the behaviour of these Australian idiots displays everything that is wrong with western culture. It does not matter that the object of their "joke" was the royal family (it does but that is another matter) its the ignorance and complete lack of understanding or sensitivity to other people.

there are well documented suicides that have been caused by pranks - google them. To the perpetrators it is funny as Libby Purves argues in the Times today "its a larf innit".

Well it isn't because the woman who killed herself had been brought up in a society that (rightly or wrongly) had great respect for the royal family and presumably other people and institutions. The thought that she had let the royal family down was so disgraceful that she killed herself. There does not seem to be any evidence that she was a nutter.

As for the jerks who jerks upon who the joke backfired I have no sympathy at all.

+1. surely the rules are simple here. Would you play a joke on the person at work who happily plays the fool or the new bloke who currently won't say boo to a goose.

The problem with these radio jokes is that they are fine if the people you are tricking don't mind jokes its wrong if you don't.

Oh and the excuse that they tried to get agreement from the hospital between 5:30 and 6:30am just shows how stupid the people at the radio station are.

[BrilloPad]

I have just been reading about this story and this sort of response to the behaviour of these Australian idiots displays everything that is wrong with western culture.

I think agents display everything that is wrong with Western Culture. Leeches who add nothing and just bring everyone else down.

And you can't even take a joke.

Come the revolution you lot will be first against the wall and then perhaps the economy can start to move forward.

[LatteLiberal]

I disagree Dodgy. I don't think any reasonable person could have foreseen this outcome from the prank. The nurse's suicide is tragic certainly, but I don't believe the prank and 'humiliation' caused by it would have driven most people to suicide so I wonder if she was prone to depression already. If that is the case then I don't think the presenters can be held directly responsible. I wonder if the same people issuing death threats against them were having a good laugh at the prank before it all went wrong.

+1

The Daily Mail kneejerkers who want to lynch the DJ's are what's awful with the UK today. They are unable to think rationally.

[DodgyAgent]

I disagree Dodgy. I don't think any reasonable person could have foreseen this outcome from the prank. The nurse's suicide is tragic certainly, but I don't believe the prank and 'humiliation' caused by it would have driven most people to suicide so I wonder if she was prone to depression already. If that is the case then I don't think the presenters can be held directly responsible. I wonder if the same people issuing death threats against them were having a good laugh at the prank before it all went wrong.

The point is nothing to do with "most people" it is to do with showing sensitivity to people who do not look at life as you do (funny that). Your view of "most people are those that conform to your presumably "white anglo saxon" way (that everyone should be like us and share our sense of humour).

[SupremeSpod]

The point is nothing to do with "most people" it is to do with showing sensitivity to people who do not look at life as you do (funny that). Your view of "most people are those that conform to your presumably "white anglo saxon" way (that everyone should be like us and share our sense of humour).

Dodgy, you're wasting your breath with this lot of moronic selfish bastards.

[Bunk]

The point is nothing to do with "most people" it is to do with showing sensitivity to people who do not look at life as you do (funny that). Your view of "most people are those that conform to your presumably "white anglo saxon" way (that everyone should be like us and share our sense of humour).

Do you walk around on eggshells every day in case you upset or offend someone? I find that hard to believe.