Husband tasers wife over Packers/Bears bet

By JD

The Green Bay Packers' loss to the Chicago Bears was particularly painful for one Packers fan who was tasered by her husband, who is a Bears fan, to settle a bet after Monday's game.

John Grant, 42, of Tinley Park, Ill., told police that he and his wife made the wager as they watched the game at a bar in Mayville, Wis., but his wife told police that she didn't think her husband would follow through with it.

After the Bears beat the Packers 27-20, Grant and his wife, who police say had both been drinking, went outside to an alley next to the bar to smoke cigarettes. Grant tasered his wife twice in the buttocks while she filmed it with her cellphone camera.

Mayville police chief Christopher MacNeill said the woman was laughing during the first two taserings caught on video, but when Grant tasered her a third time in the thigh, this time not on video, she apparently considered that over the line. An argument ensued that led to the woman calling the police.

As a Packer fan I want nothing more than to spin this against John Grant, but as a man I honestly don’t think I can.  The bet was made. Such a chick move to agree to the terms of a bet, laugh about it at first, and then freak out about it when she has to pay up.  Her only chance at pressing charges here is to claim she never shook on it, right? Obviously that lands her husband in jail immediately. But if they shook, it’s official.

Honestly for Packer fans this should be somewhat comforting because now we know there was a greater reason for Rodgers’s injury.   This couple agrees to a bet – loser gets tasered – and God strikes down our best player on the first drive of the game because the wife deserved to be punished for something.  Monday night’s fluke had nothing to do with Packers/Bears and everything to do with this bet. There was a greater power at work. I don’t know what Mrs. Grant did, but I hope it was worth it.  Now we’ve got a guy back there whose throwing motion is being compared to Uncle Rico from Napoleon Dynamite.

PS – I’m pretty sure Obama had something to do with that game too but I haven’t figured it out yet.