Daly Says Night In Jail A ‘Misunderstanding’
02/11/2008 23:59
With no golf on his schedule, John Daly says he went to North Carolina to have fun with some friends.
What followed was a night in jail to sober up, a photo of Daly in orange coveralls with his eyes half-open, and the kind of publicity that seems to accompany the two-time major champion no matter where he goes.
"Nothing is going right in my life right now," Daly said in a telephone interview Sunday. "I'm going through a hell of a divorce. I haven't seen my son. It was an unfortunate incident, but it's a joke what people are saying. I take full responsibility for what happened, but it wasn't that big of a deal."
According to Winston-Salem police, Daly appeared "extremely intoxicated and unco-operative" when he was found outside a Hooters restaurant early Oct. 27. With no other means of transportation, he was taken to the Forsyth County jail for 24 hours to get sober.
Daly said it could have been avoided if his friends had realized he tends to sleep with his eyes open when he's tired, stressed and has been drinking. He said the driver of his private bus, parked near Hooters, panicked when he saw Daly and called the paramedics.
"If I had seen someone like that, I probably would have done the same thing," he said. "They were only trying to protect me."
But he said he was not arrested, nor was he thrown out of Hooters. The restaurant closed more than an hour before police arrived.
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SWIVEL HIPS SAYS:
A ‘misunderstanding,’ eh? What’s the matter, didn’t John understand where he was? You know folks, the continuing downward spiral of John Daly is very sad to watch. Let’s hope he gets the help he so desperately needs, before his friends do find him dead the next time.