WATERLOO, ONT.—So, one evening around the dinner table, your 17-year-old son rattles off a list of things he’d like to do in life. Skydive. Bungee jump. Start a really big food fight. Streak a Blue Jays game at Toronto’s Rogers Centre . . .

You’re like, yeah, sure. Skydiving and bungee jumping are dangerous. And it’s on to the next subject. Maybe the girls’ ballet lessons. Or the next family adventure-vacation.

The next night, Yannis Carayannopoulos announces he’s actually going to the second game of the Jays’ opening series. He and his friends are taking the bus, they have return tickets, what could go wrong?

Parents Peter and Sofy Carayannopoulos, both business professors, feel there’s nothing to worry about. After all, Grade 11 honour roll student and varsity athlete Yannis is, in the words of his father, “a quiet kid, in all respects a good kid, one who never gave us problems.”

Then, just after 8 p.m., the phone rings.

“Any phone call that starts with, ‘This is Sgt. whoever from the 52 division,’ from that point on, you’re not thinking,” recalls Sofy. “Immediately running through my head, the son of a gun did it.”

He sure did.

“They can’t say I didn’t warn them,” says Yannis as he leans on the kitchen counter, wearing a Jays T-shirt.

On Tues., April 10, at the bottom of the third in a set-to with the Boston Red Sox, Yannis hopped the fence from his front- row seat at the home-run wall, stripped off his shirt, tripped over his duct-taped tearaway shorts and sprinted in a Speedo.

For an incredible 51 seconds, the crowd roared as he ducked and weaved — until security and police officers finally tackled the 140-pound teen to the turf and sat on his head.

The crowd booed. When he was brought to his feet, cuffed, Yannis just couldn’t resist letting the fans know he was all right. So he clicked his heels. The crowd went nuts.

Sitting up high, a friend captured it all, in high-definition yet, and posted it on YouTube. Of course, this being the Internet Age, complete strangers also shot it on camera phones and also put it on YouTube.

The video attracted the attention of Drake, the Toronto-born actor and hip-hop star whose profane song “The Motto” urges, “You only live once: that’s the motto, nigga, YOLO.” Yannis, you see, had painted “YOLO” on both his back and his pecs before streaking the field. Which is why Drake tweeted the video to his 7 million-plus followers.

“I didn’t expect it was going to get all this attention,” says Yannis. “I knew I’d get love from my friends. I got standing ovations in my first-period class and the cafeteria. But what drew all the attention was the YOLO because then it turned into, ‘He’s a streaker with a message.’ ”

Yannis’ Facebook and Twitter followings doubled. The buff-but-baby-faced youth — he’s got of a bit of a Justin Bieber thing going on — was hit on by countless girls online. And the videos went viral so fast that his uncle, away on a business trip in California, heard about it within an hour of the streak.

But it wasn’t quite a streak, seeing as Yannis didn’t do the Full Monty.

“The original plan was to go naked or in a Borat (thong) suit,” he explains. “But when I did my research, I found out I could get charged with public indecency, exposing myself to a minor, listed as a young sex offender. It only gets very messy. That little piece of fabric is what saved me from a bunch of other charges.”

As it turned out, Yannis was charged with “mischief — interfering with property.” The legal consequences of his actions have yet to be decided. Despite his blemish-free record, his grades, his dancing and filmmaking hobbies, and his volunteer work as a basketball coach with younger kids, he could also be facing extra-judicial penalties.

Which is what he pretty much expected when he planned his streaking operation, starting with watching Blue Jays videos to determine where security was weakest. He researched the law, thoroughly weighing all possible consequences. He made his own tear-away shorts because none of his friends would lend him theirs, knowing they’d never get them back. He even planned to do the run early enough so that, when the police called his parents, it wouldn’t have to be a late-night drive for them from Waterloo.

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Of course, he didn’t pull it all off as planned. He never got a chance to perform the breathtaking backflips he makes in his dance videos. (Last year, his entry came second in a Tic Tac commercial contest, and aired on TV.) And he missed the big finish: sliding into home plate. But still, he pulled it all off and, even though his parents and some of his relatives and teachers disapproved, they had to admire his planning.

“It was between, ‘Oh my gawd, I am going to kill him and I can’t believe he actually pulled this off,’ ” says Sofy as she and Peter both laugh in spite of themselves. “Because this is Yannis we are talking about.

“When he says he is going to run out on the Blue Jays field, there are 50 things that could go wrong and he probably would have run into all of them. He would have been sitting at some place in the field where the wall would have been too high to jump over. He wouldn’t pay attention to security. He’d jump right into the arms of security. Would give himself away at some point.

“It amazes me to hear the story: the thoughtfulness of the ‘YOLO,’ the detailed consideration of consequences, the planning as to where to get the ticket. This is a kid you send upstairs and he can’t find his pajamas in his room because he is standing on them.”

“The image of him being taken away in handcuffs really bothered me,” adds Peter. “It still bothers me. The only good thing out of the experience at least is that it showed he can be organized, that he can pay attention to details.”

“As a mom and a dad you want your kids to have guts, to set a goal and reach for it and find ways to accomplish it,” says Sofy. “It would have been nice if this hadn’t been his goal. But, hearing the story afterwards in terms of how he planned, that gives me some encouragement, hope, that he possesses these skills and will be able to apply them in life to other, more appropriate projects.”

Neither parent wants Yannis to be rewarded for what he did. They were even reluctant to speak to the Star for fear it would just make matters worse. They’re very concerned that this will be a blot on his life forever, and might hurt his future career in what he now says will be business.

But the Internet never forgets, and one more Google hit won’t make a difference, they realize. The story is out there — so might as well make it a cautionary tale.

“I’ve always had the philosophy that, okay, you’re entitled to do one stupid thing but harmless thing in your life, and buddy, you’ve just blown yours,” says Sofy.

For now, Yannis is grounded. His i-privileges have been taken away. He and his sisters, Laiya, 18, and Kia, 15, have always had chores, but now Yannis is carrying an extra burden.

“Let’s just say the fridge has never been so clean,” Sofy says wryly.

Yannis’ streak wasn’t just a good thing for the family appliances.

The night he ran the bases at the Dome, the Jays trounced the Sox 7-3.