The prank call to the British nurse

It was rolled into the "Kate Middleton pregnant" thread.

She wasn't actually the nurse who gave out the info. She was the one who answered the call and transferred it, I believe.

 

I would send Prince Harry in on a helicopter gunship to strafe the radio station and call it even.

 

I am just more stunned you're just now hearing this.

 

Impersonating Royalty added to trying to gain private medical information about a person? They are in serious trouble.

I know you could call trying to get the medical information "investigative reporting of a public figure," but I think they jumped a pretty big shark here.

 

I hadn't heard of the suicide until this morning, either. Awful.

 

Charged with what, exactly?

Why is impersonating "Royalty" any different than impersonating anyone else?

I understand why this woman thought in the immediate aftermath of this that it'd never go away, but seriously, even in this internet world, it'd have been basically forgotten in a month.

No one thought this was such an outrageous prank until after she killed herself. Then all of the sudden the hosts, who had been either kinda stupid or kinda lucky or kinda funny, based on what you thought of the prank, were absolutely horrible. There was nothing malicious about the prank. They didn't mock the woman or anything.

 

Forgotten in a month? I bet Lindsay Stone is hoping that's the case. When stuff like this happens, you tend to get branded. When this story first broke, I said to myself that this has civil lawsuit written all over it. Somebody has to be held responsible.

 

Well, we have a thousands of wacky morning radio hosts around the country doing similar things to less well-known people every day. I hope we're going to crack down on all of them