Online Threat

[Malachite]

Hi folks, I got into a little bit of "banter" with someone somewhere very public online and it resulted in several threats, including "...and I'm going to video it".
The person knows roughly where I live, is a total stranger and has told me "I know who you are now".
Yeah I know, silly me, please no "you shouldn't have done it/you asked for it" responses ...I know.
Should I take it seriously?
TIA
Mal

[vetuste_ennemi]

I assume your post is an attempt at satire, Malachite.

[vetuste_ennemi]

Snowflakes' anthem:

[vetuste_ennemi]

How much do agree, or otherwise, with Wiki's description of Malachite, Malachite:

The pigment is moderately lightfast, very sensitive to acids, and varying in color.

[Malachite]

No VE, I am serious. I thought that was plain and obvious.

[-SharonA-]

Call the police.

[vetuste_ennemi]

Most social media trolls are nasty, but don't necessarily intend to harm you physically.

Why do you think a stranger wants to harm you?

[Malachite]

Thanks VE ... I got gobby with him, that's all.

[Theland]

Tell him you will meet him outside a local landmark so you can batter him. Ask him what flowers he wants sent to the hospital.

[Malachite]

I was trying to be clever ...no threats to him and his resposes were loaded with obscenities, I kept it down.

[Malachite]

Thanks Theland ...then seek forgiveness? ;-)

[Theland]

All mouth and no trousers. Call him out.

[Theland]

Nothing to forgive. The loudmouth coward won't turn up.

[vetuste_ennemi]

//Call the police//

I don't think the police will take this "know where you live", "send he boys round" nonsense seriously, Sharon.

I suspect Malachite has been spreading hate on the internet and will be attracting the attention of the police for that reason.

[Theland]

I agree. It sounds nonsense. A Keyboard Krusader. Noisy but harmless.

[Malachite]

Why would you say that VE? It was just a spat with quite a lot of tit-for-tat mudslinging, not "spreading hate". None of what I said was threatening and therefore would have been of no interest to the police.

[vetuste_ennemi]

You do grasp the rules of today's game don't you, Malachite?

The difference between you and me is that I remember the old rules - eleven on each side, impartial judge and all that. That set of rules has been redefined.

[Malachite]

You'll have to be more plain than that VE, it's very late and I can only take in "plain and obvious" right now.

[-SharonA-]

Malachite, never resort to such low behaviour. Then you wouldn't find yourself in this situation. Next time rise above it.

[Malachite]

Thanks Sharon but I *did* say:
"Yeah I know, silly me, please no "you shouldn't have done it/you asked for it" responses.
The issue now is that someone is posturing for some sort on real life encounter and I'm trying to find out if this could be real or if it's just bluff.

[vetuste_ennemi]

A twenty year old VE read "1984" and Huxley's earlier "Brave New World". (Lucky - I thought at the time - that I'm not living in either society.)

Both methods of control (medication in one case and propaganda in the other) work. But I never thought that the Stalinist model would have been adopted by my own country in the 21st century.