Potato Chip Eating Drunkard Charged With Disorderly Conduct: Cops

PALOS PARK, IL -- The St. Patrick’s Day holiday weekend got off to a wild start for Palos Park police, who cited an alleged intoxicated reveler for disturbing the peace Friday evening.

Around 6:45 p.m. Friday, police were called to the area of the 11900 block of Rt. 7 (Southwest Highway) that a drunkard was yelling and screaming and alarming people, Palos Park Police Chief Joe Miller said.

Officers were advised that an alleged intoxicated man was going from house to house along Rt. 7 banging on people’s doors. When police arrived at the front door of the 11900 block of Rt. 7, they saw a man screaming and eating from a potato chips bag while knocking on the house’s windows and doors.

Police stopped the man at the front window and asked what he was doing. The man allegedly said he was looking for a party at a friend’s home. Officers said the man was highly intoxicated and unable to be reasoned with. Neighbors claimed the man had been yelling and banging on the doors of all the homes in the area.

The man was issued a Village of Palos Park disorderly conduct violation. He has a court hearing on May 4.

Miller said the man could not or would not explain how or why he was going door to door disturbing people in their homes.

Police also received two requests for rides home from people who had too much to drink.