Dude Drives From Maine To California With 3 Baseball Bats In His Car To Fight Google For Shutting Down His YouTube Channel

DAILY MAIL - A man who drove more than 3,300 miles from Maine to California to confront Google officials over the fate of his YouTube channel has been arrested with three baseball bats in his car’s trunk.

Police in Mountain View, the San Francisco-area city where Google’s sprawling campus is located, were warned by two out-of-state agencies that Kyle Long was on his way and arrested him Sunday on suspicion of making criminal threats.

According to a press release from the Mountain View Police Department, the 33-year-old Waterville, Maine, resident was upset because his YouTube channel had been shut down.

He allegedly told his hometown police that he would get violent if his Google confrontation didn’t go well.

I think this is what Gaz used to do when we got too many strikes on our social accounts until we adopted the new policy of gift cards to the store.  Throw on a diaper, hop in the Blackout RV and drive wherever he needed to go to keep the lights on around here.

But this is the new world we live in: Instagram Influencers and YouTube Content Creators.  And I’d say a casual guesstimate is about 98.7% of them have a major screw loose.  Mess with their revenue stream and there’s no amount of distance that will keep them from protecting The Brand.

Not even literally 3,300 miles.

Iowa State Patrol had spoken with Long twice that day: once after his vehicle was involved in a minor car crash and a second time after he allegedly vandalized a restroom at a gas station store a short time later.

‘Long informed state troopers that he was on his way to Mountain View, California, to meet with Google after his YouTube channel had been shut down, which he claimed was resulting in him losing money,’ the news release stated.

On Sunday, police in Waterville, Maine, reached out to their counterparts in Mountain View saying they had received information that Long ‘had stated if his meeting with Google personnel did not go well, he was going to resort to physical violence.’

Obviously stories like this have become not so funny after last April’s shooting at YouTube HQ, so kudos to police for getting to this lunatic before he was able to do any damage.

(via The Daily Mail)