Loyalty to a new Nintendo Direct game can be a good thing as long as it doesn’t involve a police investigation. Police officers began to investigate a threatening email from a Californian student that reached the university professor.
The student was urging the professor to cancel an upcoming class so they could use that time to catch Nintendo Direct. The Direct is expected to launch more of Nintendo’s 2023 line-up and new footage for The Legend Of Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom so the anticipation was heightening to a high level for this student.
The student decided he couldn’t miss it and initiated an email exchange with the professor. Unfortunately, it wasn’t received as a humble request and it came across as a threat to an authority figure.
In a statement by California State University, Fullerton’s police department, officials noted that the sender never addressed the Nintendo Direct by name. The student called it a “once-in-a-lifetime event” that would be for the “good of humanity.” He exaggerated the viewing to persuade the professor to budge on the rigid class schedule.
Investigators were able to pick up that he was indirectly referring to Nintendo Direct because he said the lifetime event would take place on February 8, 2023. The Nintendo Direct matched the date and the time of the class schedule.
Nintendo Directs are not once-in-a-lifetime opportunities since they occur on a consistent basis. His email efforts didn’t reach the desired results for him. He reached out to the professor to explain that it was a “bad joke” and no further penalties were issued.
Even though it was a bad joke, a threatening email called for some safety measures. There were extra precautions taken around the university’s campus with additional officers ready to supervise the school’s campus grounds.
Source: https://twitter.com/csufpd/status/1623207864906170368