Again, sorry for my poor conversational skill, this has gotten me in trouble in the past as well.
I don’t think the threats should be ignored, even if they aren’t backed up by actual deeds, they are still a criminal act and should be dealt with by the police. If people react in some other way, the ones making the threats will ignore everything else apart from “I made that person do that.” Admittedly, even involving the police does that, but then they will have the law falling on them which will hopefully give them more pressing matters to attend to.
