Crime & Safety
Local Man Sits on Train Tracks to Reattach Prosthetic Leg
Police said a Tinley Park man popped a squat last week on a set of downtown train tracks, where he was found trying to reattach his prosthetic leg. Metra police were called to the scene because he was preventing a train from leaving.
A local man was taken into custody last week after reportedly found him sitting on the train tracks trying to reattach his prosthetic leg.
Formal charges for the 51-year-old resident of the 17100 block of Oleander Avenue were not listed in the police report. It does note, however, that he was taken around 6 p.m. March 28 to "Metra lockup" in Blue Island. Police said the man was "sitting in the middle of the train tracks on the north side of a stopped train" near the 6700 block of South Street near downtown .
Officers were initially called to the area—adjacent to the —for a complaint that the man had been banging on the side of the train to prevent it from pulling away.
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He was not injured and refused medical help, police said. They led him to a nearby bench, where he was snagged by Metra police. The incident was listed as "alcohol related," according to the police report.
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