Prank phone call

Err?....I'm not quite sure what you mean Bluebell, could you explain please? All I wanted to say was that as we go through life we, as grown up members of society should exercise judgement. Thus mounting a full scale prank via the radio amounts to taking a calculated action - they made a choice to do it AND continue with the call when it was put through. They could have (a) not made the call, and then (B) ended the call when it started getting serious. I am not sure what I have said that caused you to comment quite so vehemently.

I heard on Mr Baz say on the radio yesterday that he had spent time with Nurse Saldanha's family and that they were a very close knit family. He then went on to say that she only came home once a month and that they had no idea about her state of mind as they hadn't heard from her for some time. Did anyone else hear that bit? Did I miss hear or is it a cultural thing? If my husband heard that such a prank had been pulled he would have been on the phone straight away to see if I was involved and was ok. She seems to have been in quite an isolated position.

Maybe a lesson to be learned is that withdrawing protection from high profile individuals can put ordinary mortals at risk.

Over the weekend I read one of Diana's detectives saying that at one time phone calls like this would have been passed to the accompanying police officer who would have quickly sorted out the hoax calls. Because William and Kate are trying to live a normal life he thinks they don't have the same level of protection.

Please ask the question bluebell

Ask it. We're all ears.

Well then if cultural differences and difficulties are so important it does rather beg a question doesn't it but I'd get shot for asking it

Thanks, jane.

Ditto, Ana

I find that very believable, jane. Thank you for that perspective.

Agree with you Lily and Merlot re the Royal Family.
And I am prepared to believe the hospital when they say neither of the nurses were disciplined - if an employee is very distressed about something that has gone wrong, it would be counter-productive to instigate formal proceedings or even give a warning.
This was posted on another forum that I belong to and I think it is nearer the truth than anything else.

"there is another element to this. People from the subcontinent is very conscious that every one of their actions may bring shame on themselves and their families. I know this first hand being pakistani. What nobody has commented on is the ridiculous high esteem we seem to hold the royals in, for no discernable reason. Now she would be acutely aware of this, and as soon as this became public news would have felt shame that you cannot really understand if youre not from the subcontinent. She would have felt so ashamed about this that she would have believed that she would pass this shame onto this family and couldnt live with herself.

Now this may have been silly but having had numerous personal experiences of this, albeit not to the same level, I have to think that this had a major part to play in her suicide."

I agree, Lilygran. The Royal Family are unlikely to have taken any action. They usually maintain silence and would have left it to the hospital to take any appropriate action. Would the nurse have belonged to a union? Surely any heavy handed discipline would have been counter productive.

I'm definitely getting bad-tempered. I'm astonished at gillybob's various posts. There has been no indication at all that the Royal Family took any action in the matter and the hospital authorities said there was no question of either of the nurses being disciplined in any way. Why look for some conspiracy?

I have explained myself, Nonu.

I don"t think this thread is getting bad tempered , just proceeding in it"s merry little way , as per .

Sorry, I was replying to bluebell's first post - the second one wasn't there when I did so. I didn't realise she was responding to Hilda....

I don't think so, ana. If you look back to Hilda's post, what Bluebell says makes sense. The capitals are for emphasis not bad temper.

What does, bluebell? This thread is getting a bit...bad-tempered.

Sorry still not very good at this posting lark!

Hilda - it means you SHOULD - not that you DO!

It means you SHOULD - not that you DO!

soap you were not to know what was going to happen--this is not the norm...

I wish to goodness that I hadn't laughed when I first heard of the "prank". Too late! I did, and now I feel very silly and deeply ashamed.

Crimson you have a point. Something doesn't quite ring true regarding the hospital procedures.

If this is a private hospital they will be dealing with high profile patients a lot of the time and must surely have the press trying to get information on a regular basis. Something doesn't quite tally here. Patient confidentiality is paramount whether it be private or NHS.