I feel for the guy. He is obviously poor and destitute... Doesn't even have a TV! Otherwise he would have seen the 24x7 coverage of balloon boy and know that these stupid stunts don't work.
If someone is/was making death threats, getting banned from Prius Chat is the least of his worries. Making death threats is probably a felony, and he'll wind up in jail with no access to a computer and the internet. OTOH, if all we have is their word of it, it's probably another falsehood.
Anyone else see the irony here? Jim thought he would flip if he put it in neutral. Now their lives have been turned upside down because he didn't.
Assuming Sikes is the one claiming he's getting the death threats, I'd believe it as much as I believe anything oozing out of this guy's mouth.