Mars and Venus make a bet, and more

Mars and Venus make a bet

An Illinois man was arrested after he used a stun gun on his wife to settle a bet on an NFL game. John Grant, a Chicago Bears fan, and his wife, a Green Bay Packers fan, agreed that whoever’s team won could user a taser on the loser. When the Packers lost, Grant tasered his wife three times. She called the police, saying she didn’t think the bet was serious. “You just couldn’t make it up,’’ said the local police chief.

What' s wrong with bib number 666?

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A Kentucky high schooler dropped out of her cross-country regionals when she was given the bib number 666. As a devout Christian, Codie Thacker considers the number to be a sign of the devil. But race officials refused to give her a different number, so she withdrew. “I didn’t want to risk my relationship with God,” she said.