Congratulations to the Royal Couple.

I am mortified!! what a terrible ending to a stupid joke, these two pranksters will now have to live with the consequences of their juvenile behaviour and it is a very hard lesson to learn.

The tricksters, Michael Christian and Mel Greig from Australian radio station 2Day FM.

Australians have a brilliant sense of humour, if these two receive trick phone calls every day of their lives from now on, especially if they go into hospital, they will think it's a real hoot.

Perhaps the Australians haven't had the scandal with media intrusion there has been in the UK. But even so, ringing up the hospital like that is a pretty mean trick. They should get some comeback from it, enough to make them understand the implications.

Charley wrote:

cyfrifia wrote: They should get some comeback from it, enough to make them understand the implications.

Like what?
Beware if you make a prank call or play a joke on someone, the person on the other end of the prank may just commit suicide?

Whilst I have to agree with your sentiments Charley this was obviously the last nail in this poor womans coffin. There may well be many other reasons behind her final action but sometimes one final push is all that is needed.
Some people take their loyalty and duty far beyond that which others may consider fitting or appropriate. Who can say. I do however (as in a previous post ref - pranks) caution that what may seem as innocuous fun to one may be traumatic for others. That's all.

Even in the world of pranks, there are certain lines that should not be crossed, such as ringing up a hospital, speaking to a nurse and impersonating a relative. If people cross that line and things go wrong, they have to accept there will be consequences.

This act wasn't funny in my eyes, it was intrusive, thoughtless and very very juvenile. I am not devoid of a sense of humour but in my mind, this went one step too far.

As Atlas pointed out though, this act may not have been the full reason for this lady to have taken her own life but (as he indicated) could well have been the last straw that broke the camel's back. They must have known that, if successful in gleaning any sort of information from the hospital, some poor soul would become the victim and left to face the music.

It was just hard cheese for the 'pranksters' what they were doing was for the money, inane and irresponsible, stupid people do stupid things, sometimes that has unpleasant consequences.

I've just had a look at the radio station website, it's the most awful cheesy trash you can imagine, still complete with some old photos of Kate Middleton having 'wardrobe malfunctions', in this 'photo gallery'
http://www.2dayfm.com.au/the-dirt/galleries/wardrobe-malfunctions/

What is a prank to some may be hell for other people. I must admit a prank was pulled on me but also my confidentiality was also broken through it. This happened a long time ago and I did laugh at the time. Though it only dawned on me later that someone had broken my confidentialty which is then becomes less funny. The person who passed on certain information was in a position of responsibily but not serious enough to complain but a slight ticking off from me as to speak.

Though you do have to take the rough with the smooth sometimes as I have pulled pranks myself in the past so expect to take it back if you do it yourself as people say.

At the end of the day the lady who has lost her life through it all may have had other issues that is not known about or may never be known about.

Though the prank was played at the hospital and no one knew what the condition of was of the Duchess at the time. What was the radio station managers thinking at the time for them to allow a prank like this. Hopitals should be no go areas for pranks like this because no one knows how serious the patient is at the time.

Also is the Radio Station in trouble with the law in anyway due to breaking of confidentiality of all concerned before seeking permission from the hospital or patient concerned?

The pranksters are now being kept in the underground bunker in Australia where 'Prisoner cell block H' was made, and forced to apologise by radio station executives poking them with sharp sticks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPwh5-uSERk

Whilst I have every sympathy for the family of the nurse who apparently killed herself, I think the media have gone a bit overboard. As other posters on here point out, pranks calls are part of todays entertainment. Grahem Norton used to phone all sorts of public and private figures and poke fun at them. I agree with the poster who made the point that the poor girl possibly had a lot of other stress too. After all, all she did was put the call through and the hospital were not taking action over it. The DJs did not expect to get past the first hurdle, let alone be taken seriously and to my knowledge havent made public whatever details they got from the second nurse.I am sure they were really shocked to learn of the demise of the poor nurse, but is it really right to blame them? I think not. I expect guns blazing from some corners, but I cannot see that the DJs actions are solely to blame, and the media have just found a story to fill their front pages.

The 'apology' of the Australian DJs shows them as shallow and silly. No surprises there.

The "shallow and silly" is from watching and listening to the video. It's hardly remarkable these people would be shallow and silly, that's the sort of personality selected for and suited to that sort of light entertainment work. I don't blame them for being shallow and silly.

It's just an opinion. I looked at some of the photos and videos of these two on the radio website before they were taken down. They convincingly portray themselves as shallow, childish and silly, much as you might expect from celebrity gossip and silly pranks type radio station presenters. Under stress in the apology video they appear to be self obsessed, silly and foolish. Being like that is probably the best defence against any legal stuff that might come up against the radio station, so their bosses probably decided it would be a good idea to show the world with an apology video what silly, shallow people they were. I might be wrong.

I will not attempt to mind read the personalities of people who post on here, except, I guess you are a generally tolerant and kind hearted type, but you draw the line and don't put up with any seriously bad behavior, Charly, am I wrong?

Charly wrote:Problem is, you seem to state your opinion as fact.

Perhaps I do, too much. Most people do though don't they? Anyway, I'm interested to hear that, and will see if I can say what I want to without doing that so much. Well, I might, there is always room for doubt.