Is it common for people to get death threats?

Or at least get enough that you can start ranking them by category?

Maybe I’m just lucky.

I had closed the gate to my checkout, turned out the light, wiped everything down, took my till out and had walked away a bit when I saw a customer start loading his groceries on the now-abandoned belt.

i walked back to try to help by simply saying, “Sorry man, that checkout is closed, you’ll have to go a few up to get through.”

I went upstairs, counted my till and posted my results, got my stuff and went to leave.

Suddenly my bosses are on me checking if I’m okay, and I’m being escorted off-site by security for my safety.

Apparently the man was not appreciative, went to the managers and told them he was going to wait for me outside so he could run me over…

Facebook: Got comments from by wife’s brother and his friends about God’s blessing and such being responsible for her pregnancy.

“It’s 2013. We have a pretty solid handle on how a woman gets pregnant, and there’s no god in the explanation.”

Of my fuck they exploded. “I’ll fucking kill you!” “Best not come back to this town!” So it goes.

I was working for an ISP and sent one of our customers a warning about harassing people via email. He switched to me instead. It escalated up the chain to my manager’s manager, who called the customer’s dad because he was 14. Dad got him under control, because the alternative was to lose his phone service for 12 months.

A year later, the kid contacted me again to say I should give him a job, because I’m an incompetent fuck and users shouldn’t have to put up with me. Would you be surprised to learn we didn’t hire him?

Every few years I stalk his blog to see what he’s been up to. There’s usually a couple more arrests to add to the tally, but like always they weren’t his fault, because someone provoked him!

I made a PR/commit to to a foss android kernel for ‘tap to wake’ ported from fork to another model. I fully attributed where and who and complied with the GPL. The guy lost his shit and threatened my very existence, over around 20 lines of code.

I was openly an atheist in highschool (early 2000s). Death threats weren’t sent, they were spoken to my face

Because I referred to Christianity as a cult.

I’ve been on the internet since the 90’s, and a lot of that has included online gaming, so I just assume that I’ve received a few. But none that I remember.

I was hired for a job some guy had been fired from several years earlier. There had been at least one other person in the position after him and before me. But for some reason he found out about me, decided I was a problem, and I had to get escorted to and from my car in the employee parking and the building each day for a couple of weeks until he lost interest.

And more pedestrian yet depressing, the stereotypical: I politely declined unwanted advances from a strange man in a bar, strange man promptly lost all emotional control and proved I made the right decision.

Posting vaguely feminist quotes on social media way back in the 2010s ¯\(ツ)/¯

Terminally online gamergate era proto-chuds got big mad over cheesy screencaps ig lmao

Not sent but spoken on the phone.

I worked for the tax services on the phone and received a call from a woman who needed to pay back some money, more than she could afford. Before she spoke to me she had been given advice by someone from the tax office she had met in person and they had told her she wouldn’t need to pay back anything. This was wrong, but we were not allowed to say that someone from the tax office made a mistake, even if it was obviously so.

She blamed me, personally, for making her pay back the money and then threatened to kill me. So I guess a death threat for fixing someone else’s fuck up is the stupidest reason yet.

I once had a conversation about economics with a different person. Just something clicked in some other guy and sent them down a spiral.

I think the one time I kept taunting that one guy about fucking his Mom in the butt. He threatened to kill me when I live-streamed it. Fucking ridiculous.

My biological brother: for basicly all the time when i argue against him and prove him wrong. Last time: for showing him with litteral math that salt water does not take longer to boil!

I’ve never had any death threats sent to me lol. From the title of your post, it sounds like you get them regularly??