Man busted outside Google HQ with baseball bats after his YouTube channel was shut down
A Maine man angry at Google because his YouTube channel was shut down was busted in California with baseball bats in his car while on his way to the tech giant’s headquarters, officials said.
Police arrested Kyle Long, 33, on Sunday afternoon in Mountain View, Calif., with three baseball bats in his car and his navigation set to Google’s headquarters, according to a post to the Mountain View Police Department’s Facebook page.
Iowa State Police were first alerted to Long’s bizarre behavior on Friday, when he told troopers he was on his way to the company’s flagship location in Mountain View “to meet with Google after his YouTube channel had been shut down, which he claimed was resulting in him losing money,” according to the Facebook post.
Iowa police encountered him twice that day — once during a car crash, and later when he allegedly “vandalized a restroom at a gas station store,” during which time he made the claims.
Then, on Sunday, Mountain View cops heard from Maine’s Waterville Police Department.
“They had received information that Long was not only in California, but that he had stated if his meeting with Google personnel did not go well, he was going to resort to physical violence,” the post further states.
Long was arrested shortly thereafter with the bats in his car. He was charged with making criminal threats and was being held on $25,000 bail.