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.
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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."
