Newlyweds Tasered at reception and then again 2 days later

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/1112809,CST-NWS-wed18.article

Wedding thrashers

LAKESIDE, MICH. | Newlyweds are Tasered, arrested at reception melee, and again two days later

August 18, 2008

BY SHAMUS TOOMEY Staff Reporter/[e-mail]

The wedding was on a Michigan beach, the reception was in an art gallery -- but a former Chicago couple's wedding night was spent in separate jail cells after both bride and groom got shocked by a police Taser and arrested at their raucous reception.

Andy Somora and Anna Pastuszwska's July 19 wedding reception in tiny Lakeside, Mich., is still the talk of the town after officers from 14 police departments swarmed the art gallery to quell a melee. The groom's father, uncle, aunt and cousin -- several of whom hail from Villa Park and La Grange Park -- also got arrested.

"The short version of the story is they didn't want to quit their partying," said Mike Sepic, Berrien County, Mich., chief assistant prosecutor. "If you put this in the class of wedding receptions gone bad, I guess this would take the cake."

And the story didn't end after the reception. Two nights later, the bride and groom were again arrested in Michigan -- and again shocked by a stun gun -- after struggling with police investigating a noise complaint, Sepic said. The groom was charged with pushing his new wife down during that incident, but the charge was later dropped as part of a plea bargain, Sepic said.

[NJmaverick]

1. Anyone want to guess how long this marriage lasts?

[JVS]

5. This marriage is too awful to break up. They'll be fighting and getting tasered at their 50 year...

anniversary.

[billyoc]

2. Hey, you two, save something for your first anniversary!

j/k, you won't have one. :rofl:

[Rabrrrrrr]

3. Chicagoans.

I have a feeling that they got married without really knowing much about each other, and that this isn't gonna last very long.

[JVS]

4. Chicagoans, or FIBs?

[Westegg]

6. I'd like to die now, and be re-born as their first child!

[Maine-ah]

7. heh, one of our local sheriff's had his bachelor party

http://knox.villagesoup.com/Government/story.cfm?StoryID=123994

"In August 2007 at a bachelor party for Welch, the bachelor was shot with a Taser, handcuffed, hog-tied with duct tape, oiled and feathered, and paraded through downtown Camden strapped to a lawn chair on the back of a flatbed truck."

Many of the partiers seen in the video were Knox County detectives, sergeants and deputies. Camden Police Chief Phil Roberts saw the flatbed truck drive through town the night of the bachelor party.