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Hospital nurse found dead after prank call on Catherine
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ChicagoGraphics
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She killed herself because of a prank phone call, she must have not been to stable herself.
TheSnowman
New Member
Yea...a prank call doesn't seem like it's worthy of nothing else going on and killing yourself. There's got to be more to her story.
CanuckSigns
Active Member
Yeah, It's sad, but at the same time I can't see why everyone is up in arms against the DJ's.
If something like this causes you to take your own life, you have bigger issues to deal with.
If something like this causes you to take your own life, you have bigger issues to deal with.
CES020
New Member
That may all be true, but had they not made the call, would she be alive today?
Not everyone is healthy, mentally, and to say, more or less, she deserved it is sad to read.
How would you feel if someone that you made to look like a fool, publicly, committed suicide the next day? My guess is you'd feel like a pretty low form of life and my guess is you'd do just about anything to take back the words that caused them to go past the point of no return.
Sad story, all for some stupid practical joke.
Not everyone is healthy, mentally, and to say, more or less, she deserved it is sad to read.
How would you feel if someone that you made to look like a fool, publicly, committed suicide the next day? My guess is you'd feel like a pretty low form of life and my guess is you'd do just about anything to take back the words that caused them to go past the point of no return.
Sad story, all for some stupid practical joke.
CanuckSigns
Active Member
I'm sure I would feel bad, but that still wouldn't make it my my fault.
at the end of the day, people of sound mind don't take such drastic measures as a result of something so petty, who is to say that if the phone call never happened, she wouldn't have done the same thing a month later over something else?
Bly
New Member
As an aside, I did a small job for this radio station a month or so ago.
They wanted a printed backdrop to do their interviews in front of.
But.They.Wanted.It.Real.Cheap..
I priced it up as a matt banner 1.8 x 2m.
Told her it would have to be taped up onto the wall cos it was what it was.
Priced it a bit over wholesale, expecting to receive finished art.
10 emails later and she ordered it a bit bigger than the original quote.
I emailed her the invoice for payment before I sent it to them.
She rang up in a state - "why is it more than the quote?"
"Err cos you asked for a bigger size".
I explained how I did her art setup for nothing ( a simple step and repeat in Illustrator but nevertheless) and was simply charging for what I was supplying at the same rate.
Then those magic words we love to hear: "but we don't have the budget for that!"
Ok then, "it's already been printed. I'll just cut 500mm off the bottom then shall I?"
And so that's what I did.
A couple of weeks later she rang again to explain how hard it was to tack onto the wall and can I price a pullup banner stand 1.8m wide for her.
Certainly.
This time I made sure I was covered for art setup and aggravation and sent her the quote.
Never heard back, thank god.
They wanted a printed backdrop to do their interviews in front of.
But.They.Wanted.It.Real.Cheap..
I priced it up as a matt banner 1.8 x 2m.
Told her it would have to be taped up onto the wall cos it was what it was.
Priced it a bit over wholesale, expecting to receive finished art.
10 emails later and she ordered it a bit bigger than the original quote.
I emailed her the invoice for payment before I sent it to them.
She rang up in a state - "why is it more than the quote?"
"Err cos you asked for a bigger size".
I explained how I did her art setup for nothing ( a simple step and repeat in Illustrator but nevertheless) and was simply charging for what I was supplying at the same rate.
Then those magic words we love to hear: "but we don't have the budget for that!"
Ok then, "it's already been printed. I'll just cut 500mm off the bottom then shall I?"
And so that's what I did.
A couple of weeks later she rang again to explain how hard it was to tack onto the wall and can I price a pullup banner stand 1.8m wide for her.
Certainly.
This time I made sure I was covered for art setup and aggravation and sent her the quote.
Never heard back, thank god.
tsgstl
New Member
Bly,
If they are anything like here in the states they have TONS of thing to trade. Movie passes, gift cards, DVDs, concert tickets just about everything. Next time if they complain ask them to throw in great seats to "the blue man group" or dinner at a nice place. Most of those companies have 4 different radio and/or TV stations and they will trade $100's to save $20
As for this poor nurse I think it was extreme circumstances. That nurse made it a story, NOBODY would of cared if they called and didn't get through. And I bet my life a majority of these people on social media that are slamming the DJ's shared and laughed at the recorded call before she killed herself. Once again SHE is causing the backlash. I understand this hospital has been the trusted care for the royal family for years. Her mess up got her butt chewed out royally (pardon the pun) Her position was probably hugely important to her and I am sure at the least a demotion was in the works.
If they are anything like here in the states they have TONS of thing to trade. Movie passes, gift cards, DVDs, concert tickets just about everything. Next time if they complain ask them to throw in great seats to "the blue man group" or dinner at a nice place. Most of those companies have 4 different radio and/or TV stations and they will trade $100's to save $20
As for this poor nurse I think it was extreme circumstances. That nurse made it a story, NOBODY would of cared if they called and didn't get through. And I bet my life a majority of these people on social media that are slamming the DJ's shared and laughed at the recorded call before she killed herself. Once again SHE is causing the backlash. I understand this hospital has been the trusted care for the royal family for years. Her mess up got her butt chewed out royally (pardon the pun) Her position was probably hugely important to her and I am sure at the least a demotion was in the works.
visual800
Active Member
exactly, if she was that close to the edge it was destined to happen. What scares me now is the FFC will raise the fines on DJs playing jokes, lol or totally elimate it. This is why radio is no fun any longer cause you cant act a fool
CES020
New Member
It's not about "being close to the edge". What a horrible way to look at things. So you're saying we shouldn't care about old people either because they are closer to death? That's idiotic logic in my opinion.
Seems she was able to function as a nurse for years, just fine. Now she'd made to look like a fool in front of her co-workers, employer, and her entire country and that's supposed to be pressure that's easy to deal with?
Ever been around someone that has a mental illness? I had a family member that was one of the happiest people you'd ever met. Everyone that met him loved the guy. He was about 47 years old, had 2 kids, wife, nice house, etc. Had a ice cream party for his daughter and her friends one night, went to bed with everything fine. Woke up the next morning, went into the garage and killed himself.
No one saw it coming. Not a single person, friend or family saw ANY symptoms of him being depressed. 9 hours earlier, he was laughing and joking with his kids.
Turns out he was bipolar. People that have that don't have the same logic capabilities when it takes over, so what's rational to you and me becomes completely irrational to them. He left a note, saying he was taking care of his family by doing it.
So it's easy to speak in sound bytes on the internet and sound tough, but if you look into how people with this condition are (and my not have been diagnosed), it's easy to see how the actions of that joke could have caused her to feel like there was no way out.
If the woman was your daughter, wife, or family member, I seriously doubt you'd have the same opinion you do now, saying that "she probably would have done it anyway".
fmg
New Member
The two DJ's did act the fool and look at the consequences.
bob
It's better to have two hands than one glove.
And you have come down with an acute case of Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc, an ever popular fallacy.
This specimen decided to suck the pipe all on her own. Her decision, her choice, her responsibility. To attribute her demise to anything but her own choice is to use the "He made me do it" excuse. It didn't work in the 3rd grade and it doesn't work now.
tsgstl
New Member
As much as it pains me to admit I agree with Bob. What a boring world this would be if we had to tiptoe around everything we do on the slight chance that the other person has some mental disorder. Whoville is great in a cartoon but its not for me. I feel sorry for that nurse and her family but her actions were her own. Same reason I don't agree with political correctness. With that said Merry Christmas, even to you Bob!