Two local men who were cited last month for illegally accessing a fire hydrant to fill their backyard ice rink learned their fate last week.
The Tinley Park men notorious for tapping a fire hydrant last month to fill a backyard ice rink were ordered last week to pay $127.44 fine and complete 16 hours of community service. The judge reportedly also suggested that Timmy Ryan, 20, and Tony Nelin, 21, fulfill their service requirement through the Tinley Park Park District, according to a story in the Chicago Tribune. The duo was cited in December, when Police found a 500-foot long fire hose that was illegally connected to a hydrant and running into their homemade 93-foot by 41-foot backyard ice rink. The nearly regulation-sized rink remains set up behind a home in the 17600 block of Highland Avenue in Tinley Park. The unauthorized 26,000 gallons of water used surely got people …
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Mayor Ed Zabrocki said he prefers that two men who were accused this week of illegally filling an ice rink donate the water fee to charity. The duo cited said they didn't mean any harm. They're eager to make it right.
Tinley Park Mayor Ed Zabrocki doesn't want two men who were cited this week for tampering with a fire hydrant to pay a fee to the village. Rather, he prefers they donate that money to a local charity. "We're gonna let the kids pay the $130 or so for the water and instead of them giving it to the village, we're going to have them give it to Tinley Wish," Zabrocki said on Thursday. "These kids were wrong in what they were doing, but this isn't nuclear physics … They were trying to do something productive. It was definitely wrong, but this is not a felony we're talking about." Police found a 500-foot long fire hose Sunday that was illegally connected to a hydrant and running into a 93-foot by 41-foot ice rink in the backyard of a home in the …
One Tinley Park man and one Oak Lawn man were cited Sunday for tampering with a fire hydrant. The two illegally connected a hose to a hydrant adjacent to Tinley Park High School. Tinley fire, public works and police departments responded.
Tinley Park police said they were called to the backyard of a home near Tinley Park High School this week, where two men had used 26,000 gallons of fire hydrant water to create a do-it-yourself ice rink. A high school custodian alerted the cops around 7:30 p.m. Sunday to a hose connected to a fire hydrant on the west side of the property. The hydrant was on, according to the report, and leading through a fence and into a wooded area behind a home in the 17600 block of Highland Avenue. "I observed the fire hydrant was on and there was a significant amount of water in the grass area which was partially frozen, indicating the hydrant was on for an extended amount of time," an officer wrote in the report. Police found a large 93-foot by 41-…
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Jake C
3:00 pm on Tuesday, January 31, 2012
So many perks for this, its unbelievable that so many positive things are coming because of this. It reals makes me want to build a hockey rink in my backyard. more ›