Crime & Safety

Hubby Shoots Wife With Stun Gun After Bears-Packers Game

Tinley Park trucker stunned his wife, literally, when he shot her in the butt after the Bears victory. But she asked for it. She bet on the Packers.

A truck driver from Tinley Park who bet with his wife on the outcome of the Chicago Bears-Green Bay Packers game on Monday Night Football shot her three times with a stun gun after the Bears victory.

John Grant, 42, of Tinley Park, shot his wife shortly after midnight — twice in the butt and once on her thigh — outside of Sidelines Tap in Mayville, WI.

After the game, husband and wife walked back to their semi-truck, and Grant threw his wife’s dog out of the truck, reports the Beaver Dam Daily Citizen, and he refused to let the wife or the dog back in the cab.

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She called police. Grant was arrested, but police later reviewed text messages and cellphone video that proved she bet on the Packers and consented to being shot with the stun gun.

She told the officers she didn’t think her husband would actually use the weapon on her, the Daily Citizen reported.

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Grant appeared in court Tuesday, however, on a charge of use of an electric weapon. He faces up to $10,000 in fines and six years in prison because stun guns are illegal in Wisconsin without a conceal and carry permit. 

“It takes not only the Packer and Bear rivalry to a new level, it takes the spousal rivalry (to a new level),” Mayville Police Chief Christopher MacNeill told the Chicago Tribune.


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