RE: Why such controversy over prank?
December 9, 2012 at 1:07 am
(December 8, 2012 at 10:13 pm)festive1 Wrote: Call me crazy, and I may be going out on a limb here, but the nurse committing suicide might have a wee something to do with why the radio DJ's have been taken off the air...
http://www.cnn.com/2012/12/08/world/euro...?hpt=hp_t3
Pranks=funny, cool, amusing... I'm not sure what you call it when your prank leads to someone killing themselves... Irresponsible?
A person doesn't commit suicide because of one event. Suicide is brought on from a combination of influences upon someone. It is never one single quantitative event.
(December 8, 2012 at 11:09 pm)festive1 Wrote: Do the DJ's need to face criminal actions? No. But if a teenager decides to prank an old lady and she dies from a heart attack, is the teenager culpable? Yes. Same thing here. I don't think they should lose their jobs, but I think the station is right in pulling them off the air for a bit.
Two totally different situations. If you play a prank on someone, for instance let's say you're the teenager and you have a replica pistol - it's not even real, and you're driving and you point it at an unsuspecting victim driving their car next to you - they get immediately filled with fear and run the read light, crash and die. That's a direct result of a person's negligence. They had the ability to assess the danger of their prank and they were negligent. The fact that someone might feel guilt about something - when they shouldn't - isn't your fault or your responsibility.
(December 8, 2012 at 10:27 pm)Gooders1002 Wrote: After reading, it is disgusting I think everybody who thought it was a good idea (i.e. Managers that gave the go head e.t.c.) should be sacked and the DJ's at very least fined a significant amount of money
The announcers were just doing their job - like a prostitute giving hand jobs. They can't be to blame for doing their jobs the way that they're expected to perform them.
(December 8, 2012 at 10:52 pm)Annik Wrote: The woman who killed herself was just someone who answered the phone and passed it off (the media is confusing that fact). I have a feeling the radio show was only one of many things that weighed in on her unfortunate decision.
That's correct, she wasn't even the one who was "humiliated".
