Comments on: Those who made death threats against Kyle Williams should be prosecuted

By: travisblink619

travisblink619 — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 18:37:38 +0000

Kyle Williams will be a pretty special player. While I fault him for not going after the ball when had yo know that it bounced off his knee, I still absolutely want him on the squad next year and beyond. Soon enough, Kyle will redeem himself, and this will all be forgotten.

By: grannyvi4

grannyvi4 — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 06:18:52 +0000

cakemixa says:Jan 25, 2012 2:08 PM

Yes, you’re right. The government needs to spend time and resources to track down internet trolls. Good idea.
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Don’t football teams have their own security people? Why can’t they investigate these threats? I would think that would be part of their job.

By: reagirl

reagirl — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 05:49:50 +0000

Threats happen all the time on the internet. It’s sad that some people have to do such things in order to get attention. That is all these people are doing and look around we are giving them what they want. I bet they are laughing their butts off watching the tv coverage of their antics. You have to feel sorry for such folks, to bad they need this type of attention to make them feel good about themselves.

By: stixzidinia

stixzidinia — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 03:45:13 +0000

Right on. Athletes should not be threatened, media members should be.

By: buzzbissinger

buzzbissinger — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 02:50:00 +0000

Judging by the comments/thumbs down, I’d say we have some [alleged] death threaters right here! Cowards.

By: detroitcityryda

detroitcityryda — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 02:14:37 +0000

In England they prosecute those that make death threats to soccer players on twitter n fb .

By: starderup

starderup — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 23:11:49 +0000

bing253 says: Jan 25, 2012 4:44 PM

Internet crimes are being taken more seriously especially Internet stocking which usually starts out as death threats.
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I agree with the intent of this post, but the egregious mangling of the English language bothers me. There should be a test before allowing people to use computers, and this one is a HUGE fail.
stocking – putting items on a shelf in a store
stalking – following someone furtively

Holy cow. Someday, computers will be smart enough to take out restraining orders on people like this. It can’t come soon enough.

By: starderup

starderup — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 23:07:06 +0000

I didn’t see the first one, but the one in overtime was just an excellent defensive special teams strip, and it was a wet ball.
I hated to see my guys in Gold and Red lose, but they did lose to a very good team.
I’d support prosecuting anyone that made death threats, because it is against the law, last I heard.

By: mwojo586

mwojo586 — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 23:05:33 +0000

To late of a post and maybe it was already said but making a death threat is not illegal unless their is intent actually found or the threat was made against the president of the united states. There is nothing anyone can do except maybe ignore the idiot making said threat.

By: buzzardpointlookout

buzzardpointlookout — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 22:54:38 +0000

citynative says:Jan 25, 2012 2:15 PM

The tough guy who said one of the worst things on Twitter to Kyle Williams claimed his account was hacked, and closed his Twitter account and Facebook Page. Ironic, but not surprising, that he ripped Kyle who stood up to the adversity, but he could not do it himself.
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^this

By: yahmule

yahmule — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 21:55:20 +0000

Hilarious that the less intelligent 49er supporters are taking this as an insult to their entire fanbase.

By: pleazenufalready

pleazenufalready — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 21:49:53 +0000

Don’t be so naive as to think that the threats to Williams aren’t being looked into. My wife works in the IT dept. of a major university. Trust me on this one, if and when the FBI want to find out who sent an email or tweet, they can and do find out. It happens all the time.

By: frownifdown

frownifdown — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 21:45:20 +0000

He should be happy that people made death threats to him. Obviously those people are idiots, but because people went so extreme about it, more people are defending him now.

The fact that all these morons said they would kill him definitely helped soften the media’s and (sane) fan’s view on him and his fumbles.

By: bing253

bing253 — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 21:44:35 +0000

Not only should these people be prosecuted but the NFL should ban them from attending NFL events including games in perpetuity.

And I do not care what team they root for or city they live in anyone who gets caught making death threats should have an NFL ban for life.

Also these aren’t dummy accounts that were made up with the sole purpose of threatening Kyle Williams? They were active twitter accounts that people use to tell people what they are doing so it shouldn’t be that difficult to track them down.
For example if you look up ComptonAssDeezy twitter account he’s still tweating where he is at and what he’s doing. So if someone hacked into his account and posted that stuff why and how is he still using it and not shut down?

Internet crimes are being taken more seriously especially Internet stocking which usually starts out as death threats.

By: nfl1818

nfl1818 — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 21:29:36 +0000

Agree with the poster who highlighted the diving punt catch – crazy – i watched it again last night – Belichick or Coughlin would have lifted the guy right there (btw he also bobbled the 1st Qrtr reverse though that may have been a bad toss). Later in the 3rd Qrtr, he took a major hit from Sash (?) who dove in and hammered him – he was slow getting up but Fox immediately went to a shot of the sideline or Buck and Aikman. They never discussed it perhaps bc the hit was hard to see with the crowd of Giants converging and blocking the view. Knowing what the Giants have said about targeting him, take another look at that monster hit

By: gpete1962

gpete1962 — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 21:27:13 +0000

Wow !! I thought Philly fans were Crazy ?

49er fans Are Whacked !!!

By: nagaswan

nagaswan — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 21:21:15 +0000

no question

By: beeronthefridge

beeronthefridge — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 21:14:50 +0000

Prosecute people for death threats? Are you serious?

Death threats are protected by freedom of speech under the first amendment!

I’ve had numerous death threats in front of law enforcement officials and none did anything because they could only act if there was an attempt on my life.

However, they recorded the threats which can be used as a self defense in court if in the future the person making the threats attacks you and you whack him.

By: fancyleague

fancyleague — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 21:07:43 +0000

They did investigate it. They found out all the death threats came from Kyle himself. Now both of him are on schizophrenic suicide watch.

Both plays were just bad luck. The Niners should’ve brought some offense to the game. Then they wouldn’t have been at the mercy of a couple of bad bounces.

By: killitandeatit

killitandeatit — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 21:00:34 +0000

Time to recharge the East Coast football/sports bias,don’t fumble another opportunity,way to go P.F.T. How about another Jim Harbaugh article to bring out all the haters ? I don’t support death threats on Kyle and I don’t want Kyle around another punt unless he’s wearing a Giants uniform. Let’s see what would happen if he cost the Giants 10 points and a championship. I guarantee you he would have gotten the same treatment or worse.

P.S. :END WEST COAST SPORTS OPPRESSION.

By: eaglesw00t

eaglesw00t — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 21:00:03 +0000

lol

I make a comment about freedom of speech not always being a great thing, and they remove it.

How ironic

By: purplengold

purplengold — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 20:57:15 +0000

Prosecute. And how do internet death threats by cowardly nuts compare with the coordinated effort of the Giants to give him another concussion?

By: heyooo

heyooo — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 20:49:14 +0000

“When those Giants players plotted to put him out of the game because he’d had 3 or 4 concussions previously, they were plotting against his safety as well. Should they not be charged with something? Like reckless endangerment or something similar? I mean, they were out to get him, knowing that another concussion could ruin the rest of his life. Pretty steep stakes for a football game.”

Hahaha are you serious? The Giants never touched his head. They wanted to hit him hard (legally) to rattle his confidence and make him screw up. Looks like it worked. I didn’t see forty-whiners fans complaining when Whitner was gloating about all the players they’ve knocked out of games. Maybe he should be charged too? Whiners offense thrived on very short field position as a result of the defense or special teams getting turnovers. Then when it happens against you suddenly it’s not fair and you didn’t really lose. Tough to swallow your own medicine huh? From the coach, the players, and the fans, I’ve never seen such sore losers in my life.

By: sasquash20

sasquash20 — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 20:49:13 +0000

Yeah lets waste money investigating this crap. Get real

By: nite2al

nite2al — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 20:48:56 +0000

Blame it on Vegas!

By: sean6886

sean6886 — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 20:45:15 +0000

I believe people are blurring the lines between free speech and a threat because of the ease of use with social media.
It’s okay to say things like, I hate that guy for dropping the pass. That’s just an expression of emotion. When you say things like, I’m gonna kill that guy for dropping the ball, and then I’m gonna kill his wife and kids, it’s completely different and is a threat. I’d be concerned for my well-being and the well-being of my Family if people were posting that. I might feel bad of you hated me, but I’d be looking over my shoulder if you threatened to kill me. Big differences.
Those that threaten need to be prosecuted.

By: dickroy

dickroy — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 20:43:38 +0000

I just simply do not have the ability understand what makes any person do these kind of things. What gets in their minds to make them threaten someone for a bad play, that they themselves are 100 times more likely to have happen to them.

By: LoCoSu@%s

LoCoSu@%s — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 20:42:43 +0000

thatobnoxiousguy says:
Jan 25, 2012 3:23 PM

Then you will have arrested the whole pathetic 49er fanbase

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Your name says it all…..

By: ham1

ham1 — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 20:41:53 +0000

Having to live with that performace should be enough.

Death threats is way over the top.

By: jfurey

jfurey — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 20:36:56 +0000

give me a break, so someone who was really emotional after a stupid game and writes some garbage is gonna be prosecuted and stuck in jail. i was against the ‘sopa’ laws until i read crappy articles like this on this website.