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Australian radio hosts impersonate the Queen, leading to apparent suicide.

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#1 ·
http://www.standard.co.uk/news/lond...-found-dead-in-suspected-suicide-8393236.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...n-DJs-prank-phone-dies-suspected-suicide.html

Basically, an Australian radio show pranked the hospital were Kate Middleton was receiving care into believing they were speaking to the Queen of England a couple of days ago, and this morning the receptionist who took the call apparently took her own life.

How crazy is that? How is that possible, how can anybody believe it? They were even making corgi noises in the background. What a tragic turn of events.

I made this thread here because I'm not sure what to think. Surely pranks like this have been around for years and they don't deserve punishment? It's cruel, but until this morning people were laughing about it, or do they deserve to be punished for invasion of privacy?

Tragic ending, though.
 
#33 ·
Obviously the aftermath of this was a tragedy but I think the criticism the two aussies are getting is unjust, it was just an innocent prank, and an obvious one at that. It's not like they called up intending to do anything to drive somebody to suicide, it was harmless, they were probably expecting to be politely told to fuck off.

The nurse that killed herself was the one that answered the phone anyway, not the one who actually divulged the info about Kate.
 
#35 ·
Diana's death obviously came from the royals, only dumb Brits can't put the pieces together, because they don't wanna believe, but it's definitely not the case for this lady.
 
#41 ·
I don't want to seem harsh, but honestly I think that as shitty as this prank was it didn't deserve the negative press the suicide has given it. Please don't get me wrong, it was a total asshole move, but if something as innocent as a simple radio prank could get a person to commit suicide, then they weren't stable in the first place.
 
#42 ·
I agree that although it would seem the prank call contributed to the suicide, it was just a prank call, albeit on - what turned out to be - a pretty big scale, however the DJ's aren't in control of people's emotions, although it was obvious a backlash like this would happen, when the 'Royals' are involved in any 'incident' it tends to garner certain individuals and reactions from the media, and because of the kind of things the spokespeople for the Royals say, there is only a few ways 'incidents' like this tend to go.
 
#47 ·
Ive heard all about this story since I live in the UK and it makes so angry that those fucking australian dj's have caused that poor nurse to take her own life because of their stupidity of doing that prank phone call. Well from watching the news today those dj's have been took off air and theres an investigation into this now I hope to god those dj's get sued for every penny for causing this death the poor family of that nurse must be going through hell
 
#48 ·
I think this is one of the weirdest stories ever. And not really because of the parties involved. But the third parties. Media & people buying into it being the fault of the DJs. People do stuff like that every day. On the same scale? Not so much. Its a one in a billion thing that someone actually commited suicide within a week of the result of a prank.. And to blame them, you have to be very narrow minded, or just very guillible. Baaaaaaa. Baaaaaa.
 
#53 ·
If you wanna dish it out, you better pucker up and take it. That whole radio station has been using distasteful humor for years now, it's no surprise something like has happened.

Since no crime was committed, if I was the lawyer of the family I would use the current publicity and make a request of money and see how the radio station handle it.
 
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