Wrestling's Dumbest Criminals

5. Johnny Grunge

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Life on the road and a proclivity for partying combined with no relish for responsibility means DUIs are as common as muck at a manure market in the history of professional wrestling. Innovator of extreme and no friend of furniture Johnny Grunge was just another name added to that far-from exclusive club.

His induction was pretty special, though.

In February 1996, just a month after WCW had rather curiously drafted Public Enemy onto their sterile Disney soundstage, Grunge went on a massive bender and ended the night in the slammer with a DUI and auto theft to his name.

But he didn't just steal any car. He stole one of his employer's production trucks.

Eric Bischoff wistfully recalled the incident in his book, dismissing it as nothing more than a mere prank at David Crockett's expense. Suitably amused by the crime, Grunge amazingly didn't violate his probationary period, and was kept in Atlanta for the next three years.

 
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