WFMY-TV in Winston-Salem, NC. and TMZ update us on the the very latest John Daly out-of-control drinking escapade:
John Daly’s battle with alcohol abuse continued Sunday morning at a Hooters Restaurant on Hanes Square Circle in Winston-Salem. Someone at the restaurant called EMS after he lost consciousness. Paramedics say Daly refused to go to the hospital so they called for help from police.”
(Time to update that celebrity mughshot page!)
Officers described Daly as extremely intoxicated and uncooperative. He repeated he didn’t want to go to the hospital. Hooters employees asked Daly to leave. But Daly did not have transportation. Officers say he was part of a group traveling on a tour bus. The group left Daly behind at the Hooters because they didn’t want him to continue traveling with them.
So where did John have left to go? Jail, that’s where!
Police “escorted him to the Forsyth County Jail where he spent 24 hours in a ’sober up’ area.”
Best part isn’t that Hooters is Daly’s biggest sponsor. Or that’s he’s done countless dumbass commercials for them glorifying booze. No, I just love the fact that his traveling party “didn’t want him to continue traveling with them.” Doesn’t get any lower than that.
No, I don’t feel sorry for Daly. He won’t change a thing until he’s broke and has no more enablers (see sponsor exemptions). When that happens, get back to me.
4:47 pm on October 29th, 2008
Why does this story not surprise me in the least bit?
4:49 pm on October 29th, 2008
So much for John completing his 25 Hooters passport.
4:53 pm on October 29th, 2008
Daly did request his IV be filled with buffalo wing sauce.
5:01 pm on October 29th, 2008
I need to see video of the passed out Daly. The best footage of Daly to this date is not him winning the PGA at Crooked Stick, but of him shaking profusely during a tourney where he was suffering from lack of booze.
You would think that the Hooters would have called this guy a cab and got him home before the fuzz came.
Thanks a lot sponsor.
How about just leaving him there? That is cold-blooded. They were playing tag and Hooters was "it."
5:04 pm on October 29th, 2008
What more can be said than what a complete wreck this guy has become.
5:08 pm on October 29th, 2008
Yeah I would kill for a video of Daly slumped over on one of those polished, plasticky Hooters tabletops.
5:10 pm on October 29th, 2008
This is terrible, making Hooters' business suffer like that.
5:25 pm on October 29th, 2008
How convenient is it that orange is the color of both Hooters outfits and county jail jumpsuits.
5:28 pm on October 29th, 2008
Hooters can turn this into a great marketing opportunity. Spot John Daly passed out on our floor, get a free 10-piece wing plate.
5:29 pm on October 29th, 2008
And I thought I was a poor pathetic slob that hung out at Hooters too often. At least I always left upright.
5:30 pm on October 29th, 2008
The blue tint really hides his bloodshot eyes very well.
5:39 pm on October 29th, 2008
I knew the 3 Mile Island sauce was strong, but not that strong.
5:40 pm on October 29th, 2008
Couldn't the traveling group just have stuck Daly in the bus's baggage compartment?
5:42 pm on October 29th, 2008
Officers described Daly as extremely intoxicated and uncooperative. He repeated he didn’t want to go to the hospital. Hooters employees asked Daly to leave. But Daly did not have transportation. Officers say he was part of a group traveling on a tour bus. The group left Daly behind at the Hooters because they didn’t want him to continue traveling with them.
I'll drink to that!
5:48 pm on October 29th, 2008
After watching that video, sounds like Ol' Johnny could give Hank Williams Jr. a run for his money.
5:51 pm on October 29th, 2008
Daly can pass out at all the Hooters he wants, that's not going to stop me from still going.
5:53 pm on October 29th, 2008
Figures this would have happened once Hooters started serving more than just beer & wine. I'm surprised it didn't happen sooner.
8:22 pm on October 29th, 2008
After taking a look at John Daly, can you really argue that golf is a sport?
8:33 pm on October 29th, 2008
John does look a little blue. Probably because he didn't get to finish his buffalo chicken sandwich.
8:38 pm on October 29th, 2008
Lake:
You might want to ask Tiger Woods that.
8:55 pm on October 29th, 2008
Hooters employees asked Daly to leave. But Daly did not have transportation.
Couldn't they have just rolled him out the door and down the street? He's Raleigh's problem now!
9:38 pm on October 29th, 2008
The group left Daly behind at the Hooters because they didn’t want him to continue traveling with them
That's so awesome, it's hard to put into any more words.
9:57 pm on October 29th, 2008
Better lay off the ranch dressing, John.
10:18 pm on October 29th, 2008
I think he is a great man. Let the poor guy have a few beers. Its his life and I bet he is a hell of a lot happier than the jerk who wrote this article bashing him.
7:13 am on October 30th, 2008
Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go thourgh life son