Shorewood Boy Digs up Pothole in Search of Fort Materials

Most young boys hit up the local hardware store or their father’s toolshed when looking for materials for a fort.

But one Shorewood boy got creative Friday, while in search of something he could use to prop-up poles for his fort. He dug out some fresh blacktop that Department of Public Works staff used to fill in some potholes in the 4400 block of North Marlborough Drive.

The DPW workers filled in the potholes a couple days earlier and when they came back Friday, they found the blacktop missing for the holes and called police.

The boy’s mother later told police she had told him before not to remove the blacktop and promised police her son wouldn’t do it again.

Police took no action.