Tim Ellsworth

A Washington man didn’t like his wife’s 79-year-old grandmother telling him how to discipline his son. And so he pulled out a Taser and zapped her when she refused to leave his house.

Aaron de Bruyn, 26, was charged with fourth-degree domestic violence assault.

The argument began Wednesday morning when his 7-month-old son tried to reach behind the family’s entertainment system to grab the electrical wires, de Bruyn told The Columbian newspaper of Vancouver.

Fearing the boy would shock himself, he told the boy “no” a couple of times and gave the child a swat on his diapered bottom.

De Bruyn said his grandmother-in-law, Rosemary Garlock, told him that was child abuse and threatened to have the child taken away. He said he then told Garlock to leave and she refused.