A Super Bowl party on Sunday in Winter Garden didn’t go quite as everyone planned—it ended with two friends in the Orange County Jail.
When Winter Garden police officers showed up to the house on Charlotte Street about at 10:35 p.m., they found more than a dozen family members and friends shouting at each other, an arrest report states.
There was broken glass and tipped over chairs stretched from the kitchen to the living room. Food and drink had spilled across the floor, people were yelling and there was a knife in the kitchen sink, police said.
Chandardat Singh, 38, told officers he and his friend 49-year-old Bharat Pearaylall, had bet one another $50 on the outcome of the football game, according to an arrest report.
Things didn’t look so good for Singh throughout most of the game, as his team — the New England Patriots — trailed behind, according to the report. He told police his friend repeatedly reminded him of it, too.
Everything started to change in the fourth quarter, though, when the Patriots made a comeback, the report states. Singh said he seized the opportunity to “return the behavior” and made a comment about how he planned to buy a pair of shoes for his wife when he won the bet, according to the report.
That didn’t sit too well with Pearaylall, Singh told police.
The men started shouting and then one charged the other — neither could agree on who started the fight — and they eventually ended up on the kitchen floor, the report states.
Both men told police different stories about how the other grabbed a kitchen knife and started swinging, according to the report.
Family members finally managed to break them up, but both of the men’s wives told police they took punches in the process.
No one was seriously injured and police said everyone involved declined medical attention. The reporting officer said the men smelled of alcohol.
The men decided not to press charges against one another, but their wives told police they wanted to, so each was arrested on one count of battery, according to the report.
Officers said they also found probable cause to arrest the men on a misdemeanor gambling charge. As of Tuesday afternoon, both had bailed out of the Orange County Jail.
It’s unclear if Singh ever got his $50 after the Patriots won.
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