Officers called to pot smell coming from neighbor’s apartment find burning T-Rex costume instead: Park Forest police

Police responded Feb. 12, 2020 in Park Forest and found a burning T-Rex costume. | Sun-Times files

Officers responding to a report of a burning pot smell early Wednesday in south suburban Park Forest instead found a dinosaur costume that had caught fire.

Police were called shortly after midnight to the 100 block of Forest Boulevard after someone in the second-floor apartment said they smelled cannabis smoke coming from the first floor, according to Park Forest Police Chief Christopher Mannino.

Last night we received a call of the smell of burning cannabis in a multi-family housing unit. Officers reported the smell was the result of a t-Rex costume that caught fire.

We couldn’t make this stuff up.
#ThatsPolicing #DinoCosplay #ThatsWhyTheyreExtinct

— Park Forest Police (@ParkForestPD) February 12, 2020

Officers entered the apartment and found a burning inflatable T. rex costume, Mannino said. The fire was put out without fire department assistance, he said.

“It’s just one of those stranger calls,” Mannino said.

A smoke alarm had been set off, but the call was considered non-criminal, he said.