Should these disc jockeys face criminal charges?

what a fkn fruit of the loon....

Who is this directed to?

Wrong.

Oh tell me since when are criminal charges regardless to intent and entirely focused on results?

I think they should be based on results too. If someone is accidentally killed in a car crash, the person who crashed the car should go to jail.

Well that depends, if the driver was driving drunk or soberly driving in excess of the speed limit allowed then yes he'll face criminal charges. However there has never been a mandatory rule or limit specified about prank calling.

No, but they caused someone to die, so there should be criminal charges.

What if you were just properly driving down the road and then some suicidal guy just jumped in front of your car and got killed as your car collided into him before you were able to react, would you believe that you should be put to jail for that?? it's clearly not your fault, you were driving properly and you didn't expect that he'll just jump in front of your car.

But the DJs were not acting properly.

Generally prank calling is tolerable, committing suicide isn't an appropriate form of reaction to a prank.

I think that she had other issues and this just did it for her. And in some cases prank calling is not tolerable.

Remind me never to prank call seatlle....

Could you explain more clearly? I don't see a connection between your comment and mine.

Not really no.....

Fine then don't prank call Seattle. What's your point?

I'm not seeking permission to not prank call seatlle. My point is for me to know and you to forever remain inquisitive or not, whatever floats your boat really, i'm not that fussed.

Yes agreed. If a kid is bullied at school and runs into the street and gets hit by a car trying to get away from the bullies, they are at fault. If a prank calls and says that the person on the phone hit their child while going down Elm street on their way to work, and the child is dead, and that person has a heart attack at the thought of having hit a child, then the prankster is at fault! Playing with people's lives is not acceptable, period. If a person feels they have broken some honor code, that perhaps in their country makes you less than dirt because you leaked information, and a prankster hits exactly that situation in which they feel they have lost all honor, and they kill themselves, the prankster is at fault. The best answer, is stop being an ass, and playing with people's lives because everybody else does not have the same thoughts, upbringing, awareness, sense of humor or anything as you! That is reality, and less than that is just childish, immature and mean.

There is no evidence that she killed herself due to the prank! It is an ALLEGED suicide

say what? like what?

Probably some jail time.

england will probablt demand they are extradited and tried in england

They should be.

Public beheading? Or how much time do u think they should get for a phone call? And what about the hospital thst didn't follow protocol?

Did I mention public beheading? Where did that come from?

no,you didn't,i did

Then why did you mention public beheading? That is completely off topic.

There was absolutely know way they could have known from half a world away that their poor impersonation would cause a person to commit suicide; and really, there's no evidence that they were anything but the straw that broke the camel's back. I've said it before: there is never a singular cause of suicide. Normal people don't off themselves after one bad day. Something else is being overlooked as we point the fingers at some idiot DJ's.

They didn't even know that the nurse was probably having a hard time. They pull a prank so what. The nurse shouldn't have commit suicide which is dumb and wrong.

After reading the article and listening to the audio of the prank, I don't see how it could POSSIBLY be a factor in her suicide. All she did was answer the phone and then transfer the call to a nurse.

Actually, i believe she wasnt the lady on the phone, just the one that put the call through.

I'm on the fence about this one. I don't think they should face criminal charges or anything, but I do think that something needs to be done to prevent these sorts of things from happening. Media in all realms be they radio, newscasters, or reporters have been getting out of hand these days.

There are too many people having fun at other's expense in the world. Pranks are childish and adults should not be doing it anyway. There are always consequences, even if not as bad as this, making people feel foolish for a laugh is idiotic, and if you choose that as a course of action, and something negative happens as a result, there should be consequences! It is the same as bullying.

It isn't against the law to ask for personal information in either Australian or British law, they didn't name either of the nurses they spoke to nor did they claim to be someone else in order to receive said information, they impersonated the Queen and Charles but they didn't claim to be them.

It is however against the law for a hospital to disclose personal medical information without the patients consent in British law.



I think this poor lady must have had problems way before this happened and the hospital is oblgated to take care of their staff in that respect...which doesn't appear to have been done.



I can only think that maybe....just maybe, the radio station itself is culpable in as much as they are supposed to declare to whomever they're prank is involving that it was a prank and ask permission to put it to air...even then the most they could possibly be charged with is malicious intent....and even that would have to be proved in a court of law.

Not on this case

Them Australians have a very different sense of humour to the British. So I see how they found it funny, But the nurse they were speaking to must have taken it personally.

Dear god what?

It was tragic but how were they supposed to know the woman would commit suicide? Everyone supported the woman despite the mistake but she chose to kill herself, in the end that's on her.

They weren't forcing her to do anything. She took her own life on her own accord, they had nothing to do with it.

There was no criminal intent

I must be missing something here, I have read both articles and I don't see what the big deal about the call was. All I see is that they pretend to be the Queen and Prince and asked for Kate Middleton's condition........
So my questions are:
1] What is the big deal about that?
2] How could that possibly cause this nurse to kill herself?

Sorry, I just don't see it