Comments on: Police may question Australian DJs over royal phone prank

By: Seth Halpern

Seth Halpern — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 21:32:40 +0000

I guess there’s not much point in my asking Mel for a date now.

By: Anti-Control

Anti-Control — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 21:19:47 +0000

This has become absurd. Shy Guy on December 9, 2012 at 2:09 PM

Entering a leftist's mind is entering the Twilight Zone, where giving people food-stamp and unemployment benefits is considered to be good for an economy, where massive public debt is considered to be irrelevant, where debt ceilings are considered to be harmful to fiscal responsibility and solvency, and where each of us is considered to be collectively guilty for the actions other individuals commit !

By: Seth Halpern

Seth Halpern — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 21:08:37 +0000

Well, there is such a thing in tort law as an "eggshell plaintiff." Stuff can go horribly, horribly wrong, especially with the overture to Wagner's Die Meistersinger playing in the background.

By: Moesart

Moesart — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 21:00:47 +0000

It’s not their fault that woman killed herself.

What a horrible precedent to set.

By: Shy Guy

Shy Guy — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 20:42:55 +0000

Folks, here's the prank call. They never dreamed it would go so far.

By: lester

lester — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 20:22:20 +0000

There’s no way they can be held liable for the suicide.

Impersonation of public figures with the intent to obtain private health data and making that private data public is a whole different matter.

By: juliesa

juliesa — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 20:22:02 +0000

As I said on another thread, at the very least it’s aholish to be pestering people in a hospital who probably have better things to do, like saving lives or dealing with worried relatives. Press should be afflicting the comfortable, not afflicting the afflicted. IMHO. I just think there are better targets for pranks, but I’m biased because I have an intense dislike for 90% of the media.

By: juliesa

juliesa — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 20:10:48 +0000

Maybe what they did was legal in the UK, but in the US you can’t by law have access to medical info without the patient’s permission. Obtaining that info by impersonating someone would seem to be some type of fraud.

By: tjexcite

tjexcite — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 19:51:48 +0000

They have tried for the last 15 years to get the paparazzi who helped kill Diana and have not changed the culture. This stunt was a new form of paparazzi as before no one in Australia could get the phone number of a private hospital in London. If anything happens to the DJ’s in the criminal court system it will come right up to Blasphemy laws but civil law is still open but should be prevented as well.

By: keep the change

keep the change — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 19:51:27 +0000

That article didn’t explain why the nurse committed suicide or what the prank call was about.