Man Wasn't About To Let Oak Creek Police Stop His Fireworks: Cops

OAK CREEK, WI — An Oak Creek man was cited twice for shooting off illegal fireworks, but not before he insulted a police officer and said it was his right as an American to shoot them off, police said.

Now the man's pocketbook is more than $600 lighter as a result.

According to Oak Creek police call logs, officers were sent to the 3900 block of E. American Ave. just after 9 p.m. on the Fourth of July after an officer on patrol watched a 42-year-old Cudahy man shoot off "extremely large" fireworks near large trees and passing cars.

Police call logs stated that the officer questioned the Cudahy man about the fireworks, who shouted an obscenity at the officer, and demanded that the officer "write me my ticket."

According to police, the man walked away from the officer with his box of fireworks, and said he would continue to light fireworks off the moment he drove away.

Police said they warned the man not to light off fireworks. But shortly after officers began to leave, the man lit more fireworks.

According to police call logs, police went back and cited the man for two fireworks violations after the man insisted that he wasn't going to stop lighting them off.

The man told police that it was his "American right that the city took away," to light off fireworks, according to police call logs. Fireworks citations in Oak Creek are $313 according to city records.