Posted on 12/07/2012 1:17:56 PM PST by CHRISTIAN DIARIST
Bull. First, she fails to do her job properly of ensuring client privacy, then she kills herself to save the embarrassment. By blaming others for her personal failure, you are justifying her suicide.
We are seeing it as citizens in a constitutional republic. She a subject in a monarchy. She probably felt great shame to be a party to the pranking of a royal highness. Here, we were raised with all men are created equal; there, she was likely raised to adore the royalty.
As a different example, look at how the people of Thailand are devoted to their beloved king. If this prank had happened there, I could see the same thing happening.
-PJ
I outgrew the “morons in the morning” theme decades ago.
Nobody alive on this planet can tell with certainty what were the true reasons for the suicide.
By blaming others for her personal failure [...]
If a prankster tricks you to enter a cage with hungry lions, will you be content to blame yourself for being unable to fend them off? Maybe it's your fault that you don't carry bear spray on a daily basis?
If another prankster calls you pretending to be a doctor and says that your only child had a car accident and died a moment ago, will you blame yourself for the heart attack that follows?
If yet another prankster SWATs your house and the police shoots you, will you blame yourself for ... for what?
There are certain things that sane, moral people just don't do. This was a mean prank.
“The suicide in the movie Dead Poets Society, however, made no sense because a character who clearly WAS sane shot himself because his father wouldn’t let him be in a play. The character was NOT distraught and took time to decide to kill himself, meaning he was not impulsive.”
It was more than that...he had been under the thumb of his father his whole life, and he had finally found what *he* wanted to do (go into theater). His father told him that, no, he was going to fulfill his father’s wishes and become a doctor...basically shoved his own will down his son’s throat. So I’d say there was a whole miasma of issues going on in the kid’s head...”distraught” isn’t always obvious.
“Did Radio DJs Kill Kate Middletons Nurse? “
No. It was either global warming or Bush. She isn’t responsible for her own actions. Everyone else is.
Please. The average Brit doesn’t bow and scrape to royalty. A couple of years ago, some shock jock radio station asked a caller (a soldier) whether he would shag the queen, he replied ‘yes, but only if she wore the crown’.
Even in George III’s time cartoonists like James Gilray and the Cruikshanks were crudely portraying the Royals as fat, oafish buffoons and using scatalogical humour to back their point up.
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/PRgeorgeIV2.jpg
I just can’t see being so despondent over a prank call that you commit suicide.
If her mental state was so fragile, something else would have been her breaking point, even if the prank hadn’t happened.
Such a tragedy.
Agreed. Some people can’t handle being dragged through the muck and targeted by the msm. After watching Princess Di spin out of control, I’m not so sure the palace gray suits didn’t pay her a visit.
I know someone who was innocent but after a year of nothing progressing on the criminal case and the msm spreading lies, he ended his life. The rabid msm still couldn’t let it go and posted his obit with his arrest picture. They are disgusting scum. They wouldn’t issue an apology even after many, many people demanded they do so.
No these DJs did not kill her or contribute to her death.
It was a harmless prank and no one was harmed and no critical information about the royals was released to the public.
The question is whether someone in the hospital or British security or wherever jumped down this woman’s throat for this minor incident and made a mountain out of a molehill. They know who they are and they are more to blame than anybody.
Whatever. This will have a chilling affect on pranks like this.
respectfully you are 100% wrong.
look up the principle of “eggshell skull” in the law.
it DOES NOT MATTER that she had mental issues. that is the law.
THEY CAUSED THE TRIGGER. They are liable.
There is 100% foreseeability in a negative consequence. Somebody would be fired, somebody will have a black mark on their career. The fact she was ill is of no matter.
(think having someone fake arrested and the victim having a heart attack.)
You take your victim, and the ensuring consequences, as you find them.
They killed her. period.
This is like yelling fire in a croweded theater as a joke.
I hope they and their radio station are criminally and civily sued.
I agree but I doubt anything happens but a ratings boost
This is exactly like those cases where a kid is bullied and commits suicide.
They riuned her job, made her the laughingstock of the UK, she probably could not live with being hated by everyone.
the DJ’s are liable. Her issues are irrelevant.
civily:
duty - breach - causation - damage
The dj’s failed all prongs under the case law.
criminally:
guilty mind and guilty act
that is crystal clear here under the case law.
Southern Cross Austereo, the company that owns 2Day FM station says that DJ Mel Greig and Michael Christian are deeply saddened by the news of Jacintha Saldanhas death and are taking themselves off the air until further notice. Read on for their full statement!
DJs Mel Greig and Michael Christian of Sydneys 2Day FM station, who claimed to be Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Charles during a prank call to Kate Middletons hospital room on December 4, have released a statement after Jacintha Saldanha, the mother of two who transferred the call, was found dead on Dec. 6.
http://hollywoodlife.com/2012/12/07/kate-middleton-prank-callers-statement-nurse-suicide/
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