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Consequences uncertain for Rogers Centre streaker

Posted: Sat May 19, 2012 12:23 am
by polo007
http://www.thestar.com/news/article/118 ... annopoulos

The next night, Yannis Carayannopoulos announces he’s actually going to the second game of the Jays’ opening series. He and his friends are taking the bus, they have return tickets, what could go wrong?

Parents Peter and Sofy Carayannopoulos, both business professors, feel there’s nothing to worry about. After all, Grade 11 honour roll student and varsity athlete Yannis is, in the words of his father, “a quiet kid, in all respects a good kid, one who never gave us problems.”

Then, just after 8 p.m., the phone rings.

“Any phone call that starts with, ‘This is Sgt. whoever from the 52 division,’ from that point on, you’re not thinking,” recalls Sofy. “Immediately running through my head, the son of a gun did it.”

He sure did.

“They can’t say I didn’t warn them,” says Yannis as he leans on the kitchen counter, wearing a Jays T-shirt.

On Tues., April 10, at the bottom of the third in a set-to with the Boston Red Sox, Yannis hopped the fence from his front- row seat at the home-run wall, stripped off his shirt, tripped over his duct-taped tearaway shorts and sprinted in a Speedo.

For an incredible 51 seconds, the crowd roared as he ducked and weaved — until security and police officers finally tackled the 140-pound teen to the turf and sat on his head.


[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_onR-pkETvQ[/youtube]

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Yannis Carayannopoulos, a 17-year-old from Waterloo, streaked the Toronto Blue Jays-Boston Red Sox game at Toronto's Rogers Centre on April 10. He had "YOLO" painted on his chest and back, a reference to a Drake song that advises, "You only live once."

Re: Consequences uncertain for Rogers Centre streaker

Posted: Sat May 19, 2012 12:24 am
by pinklemo
this yolo thing going to far. FU drake

Re: Consequences uncertain for Rogers Centre streaker

Posted: Sat May 19, 2012 3:42 am
by brwnman
hahaha went to the game/ have a video of it actually. We thought it was absolutely hilarious. Dude was running for a while. And all of us were just yelling "YOLO!!!!" plus, jays won.

Re: Consequences uncertain for Rogers Centre streaker

Posted: Sat May 19, 2012 4:14 am
by Waylon Mercy
We always seem to have tons of people who run on the field why is this one a story?

Re: Consequences uncertain for Rogers Centre streaker

Posted: Sat May 19, 2012 10:16 am
by YogiStewart
i feel bad for anyone who a) attempts this sort of activity b) applauds this sort of activity c) watches that video and gives that lonely, attention-starved teen support via youtube and twitter.

its one step worse than the "I'm nobody at home and and work, so i need to stand up and tell my section that WE MUST DO THE WAVE LETS GO ON THREE ONETWOTHREE!" guys. i watch baseball for the players, not for the fans. and any fan that thinks that i'm interested in their antics (unless its a drunk guy trying to high-five a girl's boobs) is quite wrong.

yeah, debbie downer, am i

Re: Consequences uncertain for Rogers Centre streaker

Posted: Sat May 19, 2012 6:22 pm
by RAPTORS4LIFE4
lmao good stuff.

Re: Consequences uncertain for Rogers Centre streaker

Posted: Sat May 19, 2012 7:36 pm
by J-Roc
YogiStewart wrote:i feel bad for anyone who a) attempts this sort of activity b) applauds this sort of activity c) watches that video and gives that lonely, attention-starved teen support via youtube and twitter.

its one step worse than the "I'm nobody at home and and work, so i need to stand up and tell my section that WE MUST DO THE WAVE LETS GO ON THREE ONETWOTHREE!" guys. i watch baseball for the players, not for the fans. and any fan that thinks that i'm interested in their antics (unless its a drunk guy trying to high-five a girl's boobs) is quite wrong.

yeah, debbie downer, am i


Could also feel sorry for the fan who thinks the hijinx pulled by other fans was meant for him.

Re: Consequences uncertain for Rogers Centre streaker

Posted: Sun May 20, 2012 12:08 am
by akakalakin
cops should just start shooting these ****

Re: Consequences uncertain for Rogers Centre streaker

Posted: Sun May 20, 2012 3:38 am
by Raptor_Guy
I can't stand this YOLO business

Re: Consequences uncertain for Rogers Centre streaker

Posted: Sun May 20, 2012 4:49 am
by RyanW
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7B4gic1-qU[/youtube]
The best "fan on the field" moment.