BS: Third time lucky?

Subject: BS: Third time lucky?
From: GUEST,Bring on the republic
Date: 23 Dec 12 - 08:55 PM

"THE nurse who committed suicide after answering a hoax call made by two Australian radio hosts reportedly attempted to kill herself twice in the past year and was prescribed anti-depressants."

Still think the DJs are to blame?

Subject: RE: BS: Third time lucky?
From: Bobert
Date: 23 Dec 12 - 08:58 PM

I donno... Do you???

B~

Subject: RE: BS: Third time lucky?
From: GUEST,Bring on the republic
Date: 23 Dec 12 - 09:05 PM

No.
If a joke MIGHT cause injury (butterfly effect) should we now ban all jokes?

I know some miserable, self-righteous, sour faced assholes that would like to do just that.

Subject: RE: BS: Third time lucky?
From: Bobert
Date: 23 Dec 12 - 09:12 PM

Problem is that with shrinking resources - or we are told - that people with mental problems are not getting quality care... I know too much about this subject being a former social worker working with such people...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: Third time lucky?
From: Janie
Date: 23 Dec 12 - 09:23 PM

*sigh*

Subject: RE: BS: Third time lucky?
From: gnu
Date: 23 Dec 12 - 09:41 PM

If you engage in public mischief and such has consequences you are liable for those consequences. To state that to engage in an illegal or immoral or ANY act and not need be held be responsible for ANY resulting consequences is ludicrous.

"Gee whiz... golly gosh." is not a defense. It is a shame.

Blaming the victim is beyond shame.

Such statements to the contrary remind me of why I cannot play a geetar or Rhan any more... I used to beat the shit out of bullies at school when I was a wee and not so wee lad and I have the worn, arthritic knuckles to show for it. And I am happy I have them. Fuck all the bullies.

Bring it on, BringBring. I am still here. And I will still take out the trash. Bring it on.

Subject: RE: BS: Third time lucky?
From: GUEST,999
Date: 23 Dec 12 - 11:38 PM

"No.
If a joke MIGHT cause injury (butterfly effect) should we now ban all jokes? I know some miserable, self-righteous, sour faced assholes that would like to do just that."

I am sure you do.

Subject: RE: BS: Third time lucky?
From: GUEST,hg
Date: 23 Dec 12 - 11:57 PM

People on the edge can be pushed over with very little force. But it was still wrong. Kind of like bullying for ratings. - -a
kin to Rush Limbaugh

Subject: RE: BS: Third time lucky?
From: GUEST,Bring on the republic
Date: 24 Dec 12 - 12:54 AM

I just KILLED ten butterflies.
That ought to fix it!

Subject: RE: BS: Third time lucky?
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 24 Dec 12 - 07:20 AM

'Third Time Lucky' rather a cruel way to describe the poor woman's suicide attempts, don't you think? And setting aside the 'joking' aspect of the incident, it is not right to phone a hospital pretending to be 'family' in order to have access to a confidential progress report on a patient. A lady is dead, her family devastated, and it's very sad.

Subject: RE: BS: Third time lucky?
From: Henry Krinkle
Date: 24 Dec 12 - 07:39 AM

It was the wrong thing to do. Really tasteless and immature.
=(:-( l)

Subject: RE: BS: Third time lucky?
From: Megan L
Date: 24 Dec 12 - 07:51 AM

So much for guests not starting BS threads

Subject: RE: BS: Third time lucky?
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 24 Dec 12 - 08:18 AM

Megan,
The restriction on guests starting BS threads was removed some time ago.
However, we all have the option of not responding to them, and so making some of the trolling that goes on here pointless.
The 'guests' who start these threads thrive on attention. If we stop responding we strangle the weeds!

Subject: RE: BS: Third time lucky?
From: GUEST,Big Al Whittle
Date: 24 Dec 12 - 08:33 AM

I think OP has a point. At very least, the nurse should not have been allowed to work in a hospital where there was access to drugs, and the possibility of hurting other people undetected.

Subject: RE: BS: Third time lucky?
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 24 Dec 12 - 09:35 AM

I'm finding myself agreeing with some unlikely people these days. There was nothing funny about the "joke" and all of those "practical" jokes are only funny if you think it's OK to humiliate and demean someone. To call enjoying that having a "sense of humour" is like calling bear-baiting or cockfighting a "sport". I'd still string the DJs up. The male one by his balls and the other by the most painful equivalent.

Subject: RE: BS: Third time lucky?
From: GUEST
Date: 24 Dec 12 - 10:01 AM

I'm with you Liza, very cruel. Displays a complete lack of empathy.

Rog

Subject: RE: BS: Third time lucky?
From: Henry Krinkle
Date: 24 Dec 12 - 10:04 AM

She shouldn't have been employed.
She should have been in a psychiatric facility.
=(:-( l)

Subject: RE: BS: Third time lucky?
From: GUEST,Rog Peek
Date: 24 Dec 12 - 10:06 AM

Sorry, GUEST was me.

Subject: RE: BS: Third time lucky?
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 24 Dec 12 - 05:35 PM

Ah, flip-flopping today, Krinklenut?

Subject: RE: BS: Third time lucky?
From: GUEST,Bring on the republic
Date: 24 Dec 12 - 07:36 PM

"I'd still string the DJs up. The male one by his balls and the other by the most painful equivalent."

Richard, there are plenty of curry consumers with a chip on their shoulder who might follow your advice.

It was a "joke" right?

(kettle-pot- discolouration)

Subject: RE: BS: Third time lucky?
From: Charmion
Date: 24 Dec 12 - 08:20 PM

If it's a joke, surely someone should be laughing?

I don't hear any laughing.

Subject: RE: BS: Third time lucky?
From: akenaton
Date: 24 Dec 12 - 08:46 PM

Well, I certainly think the prank was stupid, but i feel that way about most of what passes for humour these days......mostly disgusting demeaning innuendo and smut, but there was plenty of mirth in the media when the story broke.

Having said that, the stupid pair were not to know the state of mind of the poor woman and I think I agree with Al, surely a nurse with two suicide attempts should not have been empployed in such a responsible position.

Subject: RE: BS: Third time lucky?
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 25 Dec 12 - 07:31 AM

""surely a nurse with two suicide attempts should not have been empployed in such a responsible position.""

Yeah! That'll work!

Remove all depressives from gainful employment, they'll be much happier on the scrap heap.

She was on medication. She was a highly skilled and competent nurse, suffering from a condition which afflicts way too many people these days. She was on medication to control her depression when two idiots threw a spanner in the works and pushed her over the edge.

So let's all get together and blame her rather than the numbnuts pair who triggered a tragedy with a tasteless and thoughtless prank.

I like a good laugh as much as any and more than most, but I can't abide these so-called practical jokes (neither practical nor funny), which cause humiliation or actual harm.

I'm in the James Thurber camp!

He told the story of the best man who rented the room above the honeymooners and had two friends lower him on a rope, so he could scare the bejeezis out of the happy couple in the early hours.

He was hanging outside the sixth storey window when the rope snapped.

Thurber said that was the funniest practical joke he had ever heard of.

Don T.

Subject: RE: BS: Third time lucky?
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 25 Dec 12 - 11:16 AM

Don't much care about your plans Troll, but I for one will greatly appreciate your departure.

Maybe some public spirited person will take you at your word and humiliate the hell out of you with a stupid pointless prank.

One can only hope!

Don T.

Subject: RE: BS: Third time lucky?
From: GUEST,999
Date: 25 Dec 12 - 11:35 AM

Good article by PM Newton in Australia.

Subject: RE: BS: Third time lucky?
From: gnu
Date: 25 Dec 12 - 02:00 PM

9... VERY good article. Thanks.

Subject: RE: BS: Third time lucky?
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 25 Dec 12 - 02:51 PM

That is a very good article. It's too charitable when it refers to the antics of the schoolyard bully - the turds who pulled this prank are lower than that sort of vile low.

Subject: RE: BS: Third time lucky?
From: Elmore
Date: 25 Dec 12 - 09:02 PM

DJs were guilty of poor taste, a policy heretofore subscribed to by their employers, but it's a stretch to say that they could have forseen the consequence of their act.

Subject: RE: BS: Third time lucky?
From: Charmion
Date: 25 Dec 12 - 09:53 PM

The consequence they foresaw, indeed hoped for, was humiliation of somebody, preferably a member of the hospital staff, but they were willing to be their own fall guys if necessary. How anyone can find entertainment value in humiliating the poor sap answeringthe phone at a hospital is beyond me.