"When you go out, you'd better watch out," the manager of Nanyang Technological University's (NTU) executive centre was warned over the phone.

The callers were allegedly NTU students who bore a grudge against the manager for reporting to the media a confrontation he had earlier with them.

Prior to receiving the threatening calls, the manager, who calls himself "ravebroNTU" online, had alerted citizen journalism site STOMP to a group of NTU undergraduates who had challenged him to a fight after he told one of them to move a car that was illegally parked.

According to the report on STOMP, the students had parked their car on double yellow lines in front of a wheel clamp sign located at NTU's executive centre.

Noticing the car, the manager asked the students to relocate it to a nearby free parking lot that was "less than five steps away".

However, the car owner refused to do so.

His declination prompted the manager to take out a camera to photograph the vehicle in the incriminating spot.

Upon seeing the manager's actions, two of the students then tried to pick a fight with him.

The manager explained to the students that the car was parked against the law.

One student then demanded to know what the manager meant by 'parking'.

The manager told STOMP that he had then given a definition of the word, which "left the student speechless and embarrassed"

The students reportedly fled the scene after campus security was called.

Threatening calls

After the manager shared his account, he has now alleged that the errant driver is sending him anonymous phone calls threatening his safety.

"I believe it is the same student, the driver of the car who is the culprit; he sounds the same, though he had called from a private number.

"He called me twice on my office line, and twice on my mobile phone.

"The first time he called, he asked me for my name and I told him who I was," the manager told STOMP in a separate report.

The manager also added that the caller had called a few more times, telling him: "You are such a loser, and have nothing better to do" and "better watch out when you go out."

ravebroNTU claimed that the caller probably got his number through Facebook, an online networking site.

The NTU employee, who plans to make a police report later this evening, asked: "Do NTU students think they are above the Singapore Government?

"Why do the students think they are in the right?"

Netizen Aiyayayayai agreed: "One would expect that an "Institute for Education" is the most unlikely place to see such display of arrogance."

Another netizen expressed that the student's parents were to blame for their actions.

Said jwe6869jwe: "Blame it on their parents who spoilt (sic) them with a car when they have not even started working.

"Pity them on how they can stand on their own (sic) when they are without their doting parents."