Prank call DJs

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Am I the only one who finds the outrage towards these two Aussie's laughable. Political correctness really is gone mad. If I were the DJs my stance would be prove that the prank call caused he to commit suicide. I certainly would be crying crocodile tears on television.
 
its the old "in hindsight" situation imo..this country specialises in being clever after the event in most situations

when the prank broke it was treated as such..and tbh you would have to ask yourself htf someone answering it ever thought the Queen or Charles would actually ring in person like that.

in my job if i gave out private info about an individual without first running security checks i'd be suspended and charged with gross misconduct..i doubt that its not the same if you work in the health industry..i don't believe the nurse would not have faced some kind of action..so how the hospital can now say they were sympathetic stretches my imagination

it was a prank...which in fairness should not have got beyond a few simple security questions...what has happened afterwards is awful..but is it enough to make someone commit suicide on its own?
 
I see it as a cheap puerile stunt -- pranking a sick woman in a hospital stay. Cheap and nasty -- a bit like the Ross/Brand telephone abuse of Andrew Sachs a couple of years ago.

But yes, I do agree that the global outrage is a bit OTT. These two radio jocks could never have foreseen the consequence (the suicide of the Saldanha woman).

Off-hand, I can't get out of my mind that there might well be a bit more behind Jacintha Saldanha's suicide. Would a switchboard operator kill herself because of a telephone call that by mistake was put through? Was Jacintha Saldanha the recipient of a letter of termination of employment from the hospital?
 
I've never liked prank calls for some reason, I've always thought they were a bit sick.

To even think of doing what they did would have to make you a bit sick. I've no sympathy for them whatsoever, I think they both eejits, attention seeking narcisstic eejits.

Prats like them will get over it soon enough.
 
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I've no sympathy for them whatsoever, I think they both eejits, attention seeking narcisstic eejits.
Prats like them will get over it soon enough.
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Completely agree with all of that !
To see the both of them shedding crocodile tears in their interview this evening was puke-inducing.
 
Prank-calls are just the lowest-common-denominator. They're at about the same comedic level as laughing at a tramp in the street.

Whilst I hold them in no way culpable for the suicide of this poor woman, I would be for sending them to the Gulag for offences against good-taste and joie-de-vivre.
 
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its the old "in hindsight" situation imo..this country specialises in being clever after the event in most situations

when the prank broke it was treated as such..and tbh you would have to ask yourself htf someone answering it ever thought the Queen or Charles would actually ring in person like that.

in my job if i gave out private info about an individual without first running security checks i'd be suspended and charged with gross misconduct..i doubt that its not the same if you work in the health industry..i don't believe the nurse would not have faced some kind of action..so how the hospital can now say they were sympathetic stretches my imagination

it was a prank...which in fairness should not have got beyond a few simple security questions...what has happened afterwards is awful..but is it enough to make someone commit suicide on its own?
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I am sick to death of hearing about this story, and wish people would honestly stop bringing it up.

The amount of unwanted attention it has now attracted not only here in Australia, but the world.

Its gotten out of control, to a point where you have to ask yourself, prank calls happen every single day if it had been John Smith from out the back of Bourke no one would have given a rats ass about it. That is the truth.

While I thought the act of the radio station, 2DayFM and the dj's was distasteful for words. I don't get what joy people find out of making fun of the sick. But the two said in their interview the joke was meant to be on them and their pathetic British accents with the barking corgis. They were meant to be hung up on. The intent was never to see someone die as a result of a phone call.

I have to ask this question, where was the respect of the Hospital for the privacy and protection of the people in its care? No one seems to be asking the Hospital why there was no protocols in place, which would have seen this absolutely pathetic call get flushed out through the first stage of it being answered.

At the end of the day I think there was more to this poor woman's mental state than a stupid phone call from Australia. I am sure the call and the pathetic media coverage surrounding it were what drove this woman to her death.

May she RIP and may her husband and two kids get the answers they truly deserve. As well as some peace from the hounding media.
 
What I mean was there was more being the scenes than we, the world know about Jacintha's personal mental state which led her to taking her life.

IMO very sad, but time to move on from the Overkill of this story.
 
Without sounding like a xenophobe,would a British Nurse have been taken in so easily by bad 1/2 Australian 1/2 English impressions of the royal family talking about corgis while supposedly phoning the hospital at 5 in the morning.I doubt it.Its a tragic prank gone wrong especially as she had two children.There must have been other factors involved too though.Criminally these djs cannot be held responsible,this would never hold up.Morally with hindsight they picked on a fragile woman it seems in a situation to get as much publicity as they could.well they got it.

If the Royals weren't involved and this was somebody else this story wouldn't have made page 12 of the papers.
 
The way its being reported gives the impression to viewers that they caused her to commit suicide. I'm very uneasy with that but I was even more uneasy with the DJs crocodile tears in public.
 
A prank that went horribly wrong. Slightly more concerned at the hospital's stance that they had been supporting the nurse in question - really do find that very hard to believe, disclosing patient information over the phone AFAIK is a massive "no no" and in all probability given the patient involved they'd have suspended her pending a disciplinery (possibly reported her to the Nursing & Midwifery Council also).

Communication at the hospital seems at best lacking given that the company who owns the station tried to get through to them (apparently) before the call was aired.
 
Reading the above comments has made me think again on this sad subject. Is it possible that the hospital were about to punish, maybe even fire this nurse for on-connecting the two DJ's to the patient's private nurse? If she was already suffering from depression, then that would have been enough for her to take her own life? It was a stupid prank by the DJ's, but they could never have foreseen the tragic consequences.
 
Would agree with that, I'm also surprised that there with a high profile patient in the hospital that someone from senior management was not on hand to divert all phone calls. There must have been lots of goodwill calls and genuinely interested people phoning, I would think.
 
There's also the possibility of a cultural issue whereby the poor woman felt an acuteness of embarrassment that people of other cultures wouldn't feel.

I only hope we get to the truth of the matter so that the family can have closure on what must be a dreadful situation for them.
 
I remember breaking up with a girlfriend a few years ago. I simply text a radio station asking for a song (stating this was because of a break up). Five minutes later I got a phonecall from the DJ of the station which is now Capital FM, asking me all the gory details. In hindsight I should have hung up, but they trick you into it with the niceties and then played the phonecall on air 5 minutes later. I felt like a right ****, and would have felt even worse were it not for the fact I kept taking the **** out of the DJ myself during the phonecall.

I did this because I'm a strong character and I knew the chick was nothing special anyway, but in the event I was really upset, it was clear the station wanted the ratings and my welfare was secondary.

This womans phonecall ordeal would have been a thousand times worse, I for one don't underestimate what she would have felt here.

The two dj's came across the me as two overpaid smug tossbags and its best everyone just try's to forget them personally but remembers their actions for future reference imo.
 
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Without sounding like a xenophobe,would a British Nurse have been taken in so easily by bad 1/2 Australian 1/2 English impressions of the royal family talking about corgis while supposedly phoning the hospital at 5 in the morning.I doubt it.
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Yes. A British Nurse did get taken in by the impression, gave out information and then got suspended by the hospital.

Unfortunately Ms Saldanha was not that person. Ms Saldanha was the receptionist who answered the phone and connected the call to the ward. In so doing she did not breach the Data Protection Act in any way and as a result was facing no disciplinary action from the hospital.

I would also doubt that the fairly nondescript information that was given out by the British Nurse was a breach of the data protection act. It certainly amounted to no more than would be expected if I phoned the hospital where my dad is at present and asked for an update on his situation. I would be more miffed if they refused to give out any information on the grounds that they were unable to accurately verify who I was - what are they supposed to do - take a list of security questions about relatives from patients when they are admitted?

Great sympathy for Jacintha Saldanha who clearly had far greater problems than most of us will ever face.

The rest of the story is a great big pile of horse poo.

PS - the nurse in question sounded nervous as hell about speaking to the Queen and almost certainly wasn't even listening to the terrible accents and corgis yapping in the background as a result.
 
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