Chicago Man Was Fed Up With Speed Bump, So He Smashed It To Pieces, And Got A Ticket

CHICAGO (CBS) — We’ve each grown frustrated with velocity bumps astatine 1 clip oregon another, but a antheral from Brighton Park, a vicinity successful southwest Chicago, was truthful fed up with the 1 down his location that helium removed it portion by piece.

And arsenic CBS 2’s Charlie de Mar reported Tuesday night, doing that gotten the antheral into a full clump of trouble.

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Nicolas Benitez said the velocity bumps successful his alley are excessively wide and precocious – truthful overmuch truthful they were damaging his car. So helium took matters into his ain hands, and present determination is simply a heap of slabs of asphalt leaning up against his garage.

Benitez got a $500 summons for digging without a permit, and destroying metropolis spot successful the process.

But helium said helium was bushed of bottoming his car retired connected the velocity bumps successful his Brighton parkland alley — and claims the bump was already cracking. So helium got to enactment with a hammer.

He admits to smashing the asphalt implicit a span of days, and past neatly piling it against his garage. Benitez wants the metropolis to instal smaller velocity bumps, and helium has complained to Ald. Ray Lopez (15th) astir the existent velocity bumps before.

But helium seemingly got bushed of waiting for a solution.

“Throw retired the ticket,” Benitez said, “because helium needs to regenerate not conscionable this 1 – helium needs to regenerate the full area.”

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Ald. Lopez was alerted to the missing velocity bump, and informed Benítez that determination was a occupation with Benitez’s velocity bump vigilantism.

Lopez tweeted a representation with a caption reading: “Please don’t instrumentality matters into your ain hands Chicago! This antheral wasn’t blessed astir a velocity bump. It has been successful his alley for a decade. He removed it connected his ain & earned a $500 good and a tribunal lawsuit successful the process.”

Please don’t instrumentality matters into your ain hands Chicago! This antheral wasn’t blessed astir a velocity bump. It has been successful his alley for a decade. He removed it connected his ain & earned a $500 good and a tribunal lawsuit successful the process. pic.twitter.com/XFCKjYc5Dp

— Ald. Raymond Lopez (@RLopez15thWard) September 20, 2021

“I’m aggravated and I’m upset. He came by and helium wrote maine a ticket, and I asked him why,” Benitez said. “It’s my fault. I broke the rule. But wherefore don’t they wage attention?”

Ald. Lopez said a metropolis Department of Transportation inspector came retired and issued the ticket.

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Benítez said helium plans connected warring the ticket, and volition look for his November tribunal date.