Yee-haw.

Cops tell man, 80, to stop shooting icicles from roof

By Stephanie K. Baer
Tribune reporter
7:16 p.m. CST, January 14, 2014

An 80-year-old Kane County man used an uncommon method to remove icicles hanging from the edge of his roof last week. He shot at them with a .22-caliber revolver, police said.

On Friday morning, Kane County sheriff's police responded to a call of gunfire in the 6 N 300 block of Essex Avenue in unincorporated St. Charles, according to Lt. Pat Gengler, spokesman for the sheriff's office. When they arrived, police found the man shooting at the icicles on his roof, Gengler said.

Police ordered him to stop.  No charges had been filed as of Tuesday, but the incident was still under investigation, Gengler said.  "It's still unincorporated, so some of those places it's OK to shoot a gun," Gengler said.

"I'm not sure why somebody would want to do this to begin with. … I've never heard of anybody shooting a gun at icicles. That's something new."