Poll: Australian Prank Call DJs first video interview.

[AldUK]

Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tyV19ItB20

In the interview they express their regret, sorrow and repeatedly ask for the focus to be on the family of the nurse who committed suicide.

They seem genuinely remorseful, I have to say I think the prank call was in poor taste, but nobody deserves the kind of witch hunt these two young people are being subjected to.

 

[SlaveNumber23]

The phone call may have been dumb but to accuse these radio hosts of anything sinister is complete bullshit. I doubt that the prank call had anything to do with the suicide even, no one kills themselves because they fell for a prank call, there had to have been countless other more influential factors attributed to the nurses suicide. The prank call was the straw that broke the camels back at most. Its sad and disgusting that this has been twisted so much to suggest that the radio hosts are responsible for the nurses death or that they even intended it as some people seem to claim, but I don't expect any better from the media.

Also, Anonymous has threatened to hack the radio station, if they don't fire those two radio DJs.

Anonymous is a joke, "We have studied the facts and found you guilty of murder." Utter nonsense, I'd like to see that hold up in a court of law and I'd love to study the broken mind that came to that conclusion. There is no justice in this.

 

[Erja_Perttu]

The phone call may have been dumb but to accuse these radio hosts of anything sinister is complete bullshit. I doubt that the prank call had anything to do with the suicide even, no one kills themselves because they fell for a prank call, there had to have been countless other more influential factors attributed to the nurses suicide. The prank call was the straw that broke the camels back at most. Its sad and disgusting that this has been twisted so much to suggest that the radio hosts are responsible for the nurses death or that they even intended it as some people seem to claim, but I don't expect any better from the media.

Especially considering they were just doing their job. Granted it was in the poorest taste possible, but besides the execution of the call, those two had very little to do with what happened. The fact that it aired at all had nothing to do with the DJs and everything to do with their managers and legal team, none of whom vetoed the segment, and who have yet to express any remorse, or even release a statement besides saying they didn't do anything legally wrong as a business.

The fact that these two people have had the world come down on them, practically accusing them of murder when there are so many factors in this, I think it's pretty awful. They're going to live with it for the rest of their lives, be blamed for causing a woman's suicide for the rest of their lives, and I don't think it's fair at all.

 

[Angie7F]

Well, the radio station shouldn't have had the stupid prank call show, the DJ shouldn't have done it, the nurse should not have believed it, and the hospital should have protected their staff.
No one person is to blame, so I say no one should be blamed at all.

 

[Scarim Coral]

Nobody, radio station people (radio host, DJ and etc) make prank phone calls all the time so theirs was not any different. Ok granted their is the first time I've heard of pranking someone prestige (don't quote me to say the royal family are not special) but still I bet there has been past prank on famous people before. If by anything I think the nurse just took it too far but I can understand why she felt she had to take her own life (her paranoia of being shun and humiliated for falling for the prank).

 

[SonicWaffle]

Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tyV19ItB20

In the interview they express their regret, sorrow and repeatedly ask for the focus to be on the family of the nurse who committed suicide.

They seem genuinely remorseful, I have to say I think the prank call was in poor taste, but nobody deserves the kind of witch hunt these two young people are being subjected to.

There shouldn't even be a story here. It's ridiculous. The connection between the prank and the (supposed) suicide is tenuous at best - nobody kills themselves out of embarassment alone - and for the blame to fall on these two pillocks is totally out of line.

 

[Casual Shinji]

If a prank call was enough to drive her to commit suicide, running out of peanut butter or finding out her favourite show got cancelled would've probably had the same result.

 

[Baron von Blitztank]

If a prank call was enough to drive her to commit suicide, running out of peanut butter or finding out her favourite show got cancelled would've probably had the same result.

Pretty much this. If this is all it took for the nurse to decide to kill herself then frankly she had some serious issues before the prank call.

 

[Comocat]

If a prank call was enough to drive her to commit suicide, running out of peanut butter or finding out her favourite show got cancelled would've probably had the same result.

Pretty much this. If this is all it took for the nurse to decide to kill herself then frankly she had some serious issues before the prank call.

The question I suppose is did national humiliation push her over the edge? I'm not trying to absolve the women from responsibility on an act she ultimately decided to commit upon herself, but I'm not sure it's fair to say the DJs played no part. The women was mocked for being a total moron around the entire world, if you are having issues that could be kind of hard to bear.

This is sort of the idea behind the "never cry wolf" parable. If you're going to be a dick and prank people and something bad happens, you don't get to just say "my bad." I think intent is what shapes legal decisions, and clearly there was no intent to harm, but there was a consequence from their actions, so what the liability is I don't know.

The only case I can think is comparable is a couple people died a few years ago in a water drinking competition sponsored by a radio station. Whoever drank the most water in an hour won a Wii. Of course they didn't consult a doctor and go figure drinking a shit ton of water really fast messes up the ion concentration in your body and can give you a heart attack. They didn't try to kill the contestants, but they really didn't think through the idea thoroughly.