Did Rogers Call The Cops On A Jays Fan Who Threated The Ted Rogers Statue?

The text below is just one person’s story from Reddit, so take that for what it’s worth. And if you’re being a stickler for taking it seriously, he did threaten the destruction of property.

On the other hand… seriously?

I… uh… seriously?

I hope that didn’t happen. And I will fully admit I don’t know anything about what this guy’s history might be, or anything else that might help make this incident not sound as excessive and ridiculous as it sounds. Because as it is it sounds pretty incredibly excessive and ridiculous. Not because we should condone inflicting damage on that poor, defenceless, in-severely-poor-taste, slap-in-the-face-to-fans-and-Jays-legends-and-the-meaning-of-sports-to-a-community-and-the-SkyDome-site-to-this-community-alike slab of bronze. But because… c’mon.

Tone deaf (allegedly) is as tone deaf (allegedly) does, I guess.

Hmmm… OK, so maybe our aggrieved friend here was painting a sliiiiiiightly sympathetic portrait of himself. To wit:

Uh… yeah, but still though! Or… I don’t even know anymore, maybe not.

That doesn’t exactly mean this is a total non-story though…

Right??

To answer the question posed by the title of this post: yes, Rogers did alert the authorities on this.

From CBC.ca:

A Rogers spokesperson, Jennifer Kett, added that they “always err on the side of caution when the safety of our employees, property or fans at the Rogers Centre is threatened.”

That’s a perfectly reasonable position for the company to take, but one can’t help but wonder what went on behind the scenes that had this, of all things, getting actual police involved — both in Toronto and Kitchener-Waterloo, as that’s where @TorontoHooligan (aka Nicholas Kharshoum, per the CBC report) is from. It was Waterloo Regional Police officers, acting on behalf of TPS, who paid him the visit.

Because, again, as much as there is the element of the Jays in this story, the broader issue remains why this threat against a corporate statue gets traction and not, say, online threats against actual people. To wit:

That issue is big and important and deserves better than what a guy who is about to write about Aaron Sanchez and Gavin Floyd can say about it in a couple lines in the third update of a post about an awful statue, but seriously!