The online space was abuzz on Monday as netizens shared pictures
of what appeared to be a letter sent by the Nanyang Technological
University (NTU) asking students not to masturbate in the dorm
showers.
The letter has turned out to be a hoax. It looked to be a copy
of a notice purportedly by a foreign university and also believed
to be fake.
The letter, which appeared to be sent by the Hall 8 General
Office of NTU, told students that investigations had revealed that
blockages found in showers were caused by semen. If the
“problem persists”, the university would trace the culprits by
matching DNA.
Netizens who tweeted the image of the letter were mostly amused
by its contents, with some deducing it must be a hoax. Twitterer
Scarletscandals said, “Many funnies! if you’re from NTU & stay
in hall, I’ll give you funny looks hereonforth.”
Local blogger Mr Brown tweeted that he received more than 4,000
twitpic views of the NTU letter in an hour.
A second-year student at NTU, who declined to be named, said he
saw the earlier letter, which came from a United States university,
a year ago. But while he found it funny then, he was less amused by
the recent letter bearing the NTU name.
“In Singapore, an Asian country, I don’t think it’s
appropriate,” he said.
When contacted by Yahoo! Singapore, a spokesperson from the Hall
of Residents 8 at NTU said, “The letter is obviously a hoax, as can
be seen from the wrong phone numbers. The wording of the message is
exactly the same as that of an older hoax involving a foreign
university.”
The university has no plans to investigate the hoax at this
point in time, he added.
-- Yahoo!