Man wanting to confront Google for his deleted YouTube channel gets arrested
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A man was arrested for allegedly trying to confront employees at the Google headquarters in Mountain View, California, United States over his deleted YouTube channel.
Police caught 33-year-old Kyle Long, who supposedly drove all the way from his hometown state of Maine. The suspect sought to argue with Google employees over why his YouTube channel was taken down, local media Mountain View Voice reported on Monday, March 11.
His plan was foiled when law enforcement agencies from the states of Iowa and Maine notified local authorities that Long was headed to Mountain View.
The suspect was then pulled over at U.S. Highway 101 and later arrested on suspicion of making criminal threats, the report stated. Upon inspection, police found three baseball bats in his vehicle.
However, it was eventually discovered that Google employees were not the ones behind the deletion of his YouTube account — the one responsible, it turns out, was actually his wife Samantha, as per another report by Buzzfeed News.
Article continues after this advertisementSamantha said she found the only video uploaded on his channel — him “rambling” on how to get rich — rather “bizarre.” She added that she deleted his account because she was concerned over her husband’s mental health.
Article continues after this advertisement“I just didn’t tell him it was me taking it down because I didn’t want him losing his sh*t in front of my kids,” Samanta was quoted as saying. “He was mad initially, but I said I didn’t know what happened.”
She and her father-in-law, Kevin, both said Kyle has a history of mental issues. They also said the suspect became fixated on the video; he told friends and family his plans to discuss with Google executives about his ideas, thinking that it would lead to them paying him millions of dollars.
“He came up with this crazy idea to make everyone millionaires,” Kevin said in the report. “He had good intentions — he wanted to solve world hunger and this and that. It was bizarre and crazy, and it wasn’t going to happen.” Katrina Hallare/JB
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