Radio hoaxers

[John Benton]

it's a real sad case, the dj's can't take the rap. Perhaps more stringent phone screening etc should have been in place, but who knows maybe she was already on the edge anyway. Candid Camera were doing stunts like this for years and I don't think anyone saw it as anymore than a joke.

And Jeremy Beadle - remember the woman who thought aliens were in her back garden and she asked them if they wanted a cup of tea? Or the bloke who's van they swapped over and ran it into the Thames. He was going ape. These were just well executed pranks, and they went on national tv afterwards to be interviewed by Beadle on the show. Didn't hear of anyone on that show committing suicide. Like I said earlier and most of the comments, the nurse must have been troubled by a lot of things!

 

[White Room]

it's a real sad case, the dj's can't take the rap. Perhaps more stringent phone screening etc should have been in place, but who knows maybe she was already on the edge anyway. Candid Camera were doing stunts like this for years and I don't think anyone saw it as anymore than a joke.

I tend to agree with that....

 

[Ajax123]

I don't think the des should take the "blame". Tis was apparently just an ill thought out badly timed but innocent prank. What I do think though, based on the events of others doing similr earlier this year and the same last year that programmers and dust should learn from their mistakes. It does not make for entertaining radio in my opinion. What purpose did this prank and other radio pranks serve. None at all except upset and in this instance the ultimate upset. Sad sad time...

 

[Deleted member 1779]

Just think its so sad for all really. A minor prank, gone very bad.

That hospital is going to be busy with Old Prince Phillip and his bladder infections this Christmas you can bet on it.

I dont think anyone will bother ringing them up to ask if his nurses have been taking the P.