Yale Dropout, Eric Yee, Arrested After Posting Comments About Killing Schoolchildren on ESPN.com
Eric Yee, a former student at Yale, was arrested Monday after making “terrorist threats” on an ESPN.com message board about killing children. Yee said, “he was watching kids and wouldn’t mind killing them” and it would “be like the one in Aurora” according to the Houston Chronicle.
Yee was arrested after the sports network ESPN reported threatening posts were made in a reader response section to an online ESPN story on Thursday about new Nike sneakers named after LeBron James that cost $270 a pair. Some of the nearly 3,000 reader comments on the story talked about children possibly getting killed over the sneakers because of how expensive they are, said ESPN spokesman Mike Soltys.
Yee lives with his parents on a street that overlooks an elementary school and a middle school and police found “several guns” at the house.
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September 19th, 2012 at 9:49 AM
ESPN contacted Bristol, CT police who got hold of California police. Yale is also involved.
September 19th, 2012 at 9:49 AM
Seems like a nice uy.
September 19th, 2012 at 9:50 AM
Uh, guy. Jesus.
September 19th, 2012 at 9:54 AM
We’ve done worse
September 19th, 2012 at 9:55 AM
Probably the least hate filled comment of they day over at espn.
September 19th, 2012 at 9:55 AM
Probably his father’s guns. I’m sure they were locked up and only his dad knew the lock combination.
/Yeah, right
September 19th, 2012 at 9:56 AM
Someone to root for.
September 19th, 2012 at 9:58 AM
Some of the nearly 3,000 reader comments
What is the point of commenting if 3000 other people are commenting. There can’t be much interaction. Posting there is just like farting to smell your own fart.
/farts
September 19th, 2012 at 9:58 AM
Yuck Fale
September 19th, 2012 at 10:00 AM
I’m curious how many people do this in real life.
September 19th, 2012 at 10:01 AM
Police state.
September 19th, 2012 at 10:01 AM
Do we get $ociali$t monitored mecksican?
September 19th, 2012 at 10:04 AM
depends what i had for lunch
September 19th, 2012 at 10:06 AM
/Throws cellphone in lake
//Internet cafe messages GF from anonymous email to execute Flee Protocol
///Buys sunglasses with built in mustache for puppy
September 19th, 2012 at 10:07 AM
It’s that whole Yale thing
September 19th, 2012 at 10:09 AM
“Wow, 3712 comments! I’m setting aside 2 hours to plow through these!” – no one
September 19th, 2012 at 10:10 AM
I’m always amused to see some random yahoo article with 14,000 comments. Plus, it could be about a guy in kansas winning an award in a barbecue competition or any other random subject, but the comments inevitably turns to discussing just how much of a muslim Obama really is.
September 19th, 2012 at 10:11 AM
No one reads the comments.
/obligatory
September 19th, 2012 at 10:11 AM
Cmon guys…we birthed that craig james mutant
September 19th, 2012 at 10:11 AM
I’m curious how many people do this in real life.
if you just waft it, that’s a rookie move. You wanna use a jar.
September 19th, 2012 at 10:13 AM
but the comments inevitably turns to discussing just how much of a muslim Obama really is.
I’ve been meaning to mention that white people are the real minority in this country. Hard working, real americans, taxed to the breaking point to take care of freeloading illegals.
/that’s how every single conversation i have with my neighbor ends
September 19th, 2012 at 10:14 AM
Police: “We are looking for one Eric Yee. Is he here?”
Eric: “Here Yee, here Yee!”
/shows self out
September 19th, 2012 at 10:14 AM
We also would have accepted a tennis ball can.
September 19th, 2012 at 10:17 AM
i seem to remember lighting farts being a thing. what’s happened to that american tradition?
September 19th, 2012 at 10:19 AM
Frat boys took it over and the hipsters renounced it.
September 19th, 2012 at 10:22 AM
Frat boys took it over and the hipsters renounced it.
time for a renaisscents
September 19th, 2012 at 10:24 AM
Cmon guys…we birthed that craig james mutant
That was an anomaly.
September 19th, 2012 at 10:25 AM
most mutants are
/cept in appalachia
September 19th, 2012 at 10:48 AM
Wow, 3712 comments! I’m setting aside 2 hours to plow through these
Craig James post notwithstanding…I hope.
September 19th, 2012 at 10:49 AM
Police: “We are looking for one Eric Yee. Is he here?”
Eric: “Here Yee, here Yee!”
GOLD.
September 19th, 2012 at 12:25 PM
Well, for one thing, I think he was probably a closet homosexual who did a lot of cocaine. That whole Yale thing.
September 19th, 2012 at 12:30 PM
you saying patrick bateman was gay?