The Fox News Twitter In KC Took A Swing At The Royals' Inability To Score Runs And Their Pitcher's Inability To Drive Sober

Sources tell me @Royals pitcher Danny Duffy was arrested for DUI at an Overland Park Burger King on Sunday night. #Fox4kc

— Sean McDowell (@seanfox4kc) August 29, 2017

According to Burger King employee, Duffy passed out in the drive through. They called cops to wake him.

— kevin kietzman (@kkwhb) August 29, 2017

Apparantly quite the ordeal for other diners in line behind him. At least one was asked by Duffy to jump into drivers seat to save him.

— kevin kietzman (@kkwhb) August 29, 2017

Employee says a worker at BK reached into his car and put it into park position. He passed out with foot on brake or neutral.

— kevin kietzman (@kkwhb) August 29, 2017

When Duffy heard sirens, he woke up and tried to get into passenger seat.

— kevin kietzman (@kkwhb) August 29, 2017

It's not particularly funny that Kansas City Royals' pitcher, Danny Duffy, was arrested last night for a DUI after passing out in the Burger King drive-thru. There is nothing inherently hilarious about endangering the lives of others by getting behind the wheel after drinking so much that you can't even keep your eyes open long enough for your chicken nuggets to finish frying. That said, the the visual of a professional athlete crying to coax civilians into taking the fall for him after being absolutely conked while trying to have it his way, combined with the fact that the Royals haven't scored a single run in 43 consecutive innings was basically begging for one-liners that bordered on the offensive.

​That's where a tweeter that forgot to switch away from the 'Fox 4 News' account he contributes to comes in....

Deleted befor 11:04. Screen cap?

— Mike Barnett (@Mike_Barnett) August 29, 2017

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— Kyle Coffey (@kylecoffey11) August 29, 2017

You know, this person is probably going to lose their job for tweeting out something that is wildly inappropriate considering the handle that it came from, but there is bright side to this. At least the joke that he was so anxious to get off before he forgot the punchline that he didn't check what he was logged in under will see more eyes now. I wouldn't consider it a tweet that was so funny that it needed multiple hashtags, but the person who crafted it was obviously pretty proud of it. To each his own, as they say. The soon-to-be unemployed dude behind the keyboard might be searching for work very shortly, but you can't say he hasn't found his 15 minutes of fame. Even if everyone that doesn't have an underdeveloped sense of humor would more accurately refer to them as 15 minutes of shame.

Update: Turns out it was an anchor who apparently has enough job security to not care whether or not his over-the-top jokes are all that funny before sending them out to the entirety of the internet. I'm honestly more disappointed in the fact that someone with a blue check fell so short of the mark in reaching for laughs then the fact that they reached for laughs on the company account. In my eyes, distasteful becomes unforgivable when it lacks this much wit...

He should've had one of the @Royals batters take the breathalyzer test... would have registered zeros. #Duffy #Royals #fox4kc https://t.co/6B7ZeCMqcL

— Rob Collins (@RCFOX4KC) August 29, 2017

Epic fail on my part w/ a distasteful attempt at humor. Instead of deleting to hide an error, Apologies to @Royals @duffkc41 @fox4kc viewers https://t.co/289tf4VkVM

— Rob Collins (@RCFOX4KC) August 29, 2017