Okay, this is what happened to me about 30 Minutes ago. I think it is not even funny, just shocking where being in Nihilum and being known by a lot of players of World of Warcraft can get you.
To give you an impression what the day has been so far today I will describe it shortly:
-Waking up at like 13:00 (Saturday), going for Breakfast, playing a little Alterac Valley, a little bit of Warcraft III while listening to music: basically a perfectly normal slacking-day.
Suddenly my telephone rings (its the door-bell), but i don't bother with it. 30 seconds later it rings again. This time its my sister from downstairs who opened the door. She tells me that the police is there and wants to talk to me. First thing i thought: What the fuck, are they gonna take my PC due to mp3s (which could not be, because i rarely listen to mp3s so its not that i have illegal mp3s or so - onlineradio for the win (di.fm)). So i go down to ask them what is going on.
When i went down the the stairs i immediatly noticed this was a serious matter (No kiddin' there's police at my door but i first thought my sister was playing a joke on me) so i asked the policemen what was going on. They told me that they received a suicide-threat from France and that the person had used my name and address.
Well I asked them to go inside my room to discuss that, so we went to my room to talk about that (I want to mention this at this point because i didn't want to blew the surprise at the start of this blog: I DO NOT PLAN TO SUICIDE OR SOMETHING, I AM COMPLETELY HAPPY AND I WOULD NEVER EVER KILL MYSELF!).
Of course the two police-officers had no clue about World of Warcraft, so it was rather hard for me to explain that quite a lot people know Nihilum and my name, and i showed them one possibility to get to know my address. They still did not really get what i was trying to show them: That Nihilum is very well-known in the World of Warcraft scene so they started to explain their point of view:
They started off by mentioning that it is a dark month at the moment (fall->winter) where the suicide numbers are higher then usual and that they also have quite a few incidents with suicides and World of Warcraft.
They told me about the two possibilities they have at the moment:
1: Take me with them so I would have to meet a psychologist to make a psychic evaluation of me - Problem: It is Saturday, and no psychologists work on Saturdays/Sundays - Oh nice, psychiatry over the weekend.
2: Just leave again since they believed me that this must have been a prank call.
Both options we're fine for the agents, because they had permission to take me with them and they couldn't be blamed if i didn't want any help from them. I was scared a little bit to be kept somewhere over the weekend but the policemen that did all the talking started to tell me, that there is always other possibilities than doing suicide, and that, if i would ever need help, should just tell someone instead of killing myself (That is obvious for me of course, but in the case that they meet a real suicider they could maybe turn him around again with this, of course i understood that).
It all ended with them going again, not taking me with them fortunately. First thing I did was tell my sister/father what happened, then i told some Friends online. But I decided that it would also be a good idea to write a blog about this, so people see what the jealousy of Nihilum's achievements can create. |
