Posted on 11/06/2013 5:33:04 AM PST by Gamecock
NOVEMBER 5--A Wisconsin man was arrested early today after zapping his wife with a stun gun after winning a bet with her on last night’s "Monday Night Football" contest, police report.
According to a criminal complaint, John Grant, a 42-year-old Chicago Bears fan, and his wife Nicole, a Green Bay Packers backer, made a taser wager on the game at Lambeau Field. If the visiting Bears won, the couple agreed, John would be able to tase Nicole for three seconds.
When the Bears prevailed 27-20, Nicole was tased several times while the couple partied at the Sidelines Tap bar in Mayville, a city 50 miles northwest of Milwaukee.
While Nicole told cops that she had not agreed to the tasing, a cell phone video reviewed by officers showed that she was “standing still with her arms up and the male subject applies the Taser to her. In the video, Ms. Grant is seen laughing and it seemed apparent that Ms. Grant had consented.”
When asked if the tasing caused pain, Nicole told police, “Hell yeah it hurt.” She reported that while the electric device had “been used on the outside of her clothing…it caused burn marks on her buttocks.” She declined medical treatment, however.
After John agreed to allow a search of his semi-truck, a cop recovered a taser from a compartment above the windshield. During a police interview, John said that he bought “several Tasers at a truck stop in Virginia,” adding that he was unaware that it was illegal to possess the devices in Wisconsin without a permit.
John was arrested for possession of an electric weapon charge, a felony count carrying a maximum six-year prison term (and a fine of up to $10,000). He is scheduled for a December 4 Circuit Court hearing.
Police noted that Nicole and John each consented to Breathalyzer tests. Nicole’s blood alcohol level, .155, was nearly twice the .08 legal limit, while John’s was a bit lower, at .137.
Someone have the video?
Ah true love. Monday nite bar drinking and tasers.. Does it get any better?
I bet the D.A. will have a fun time with this one. Now that’s what I call true “cheeseheads”...
When the Pack gives up a sack, you get a zap?
Ah, Fuhbawl fans:
A special kind of stupid.
I’m pretty sure I met his wife in a bar once...she was such a TASE.
Alcohol was involved? Who’d of thunk it!
She was stupid for letting him tase her. She was even more stupid for marrying a bears fan in the first place
why no picture of the little lady?
Easy now.
My recollection is that Wisconsin only recently, in 1998, passed an individual right to keep and bear arms and the courts have done as they should, finding laws in conflict with their new protection to be unconstitutional.
This law too is unconstitutional and the man should walk free.
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