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Bill Murray: Swedish Chauffeur
Bill Murray has revealed exactly what he was up to when Swedish police nabbed him last week for driving a golf cart through downtown Stockholm—and it had nothing to do with chasing down a furry brown gopher.
At the Venice Film Festival on Monday, the Caddyshack star told reporters he was merely giving some revelers a ride on their way back from a bash he had attended with some other VIPs, following his appearance at the Scandinavian Masters Tournament in the Swedish capital.
"[The police] asked me to come over, and they assumed I was drunk, and I explained to them that I was a golfer," Murray explained at the premiere for his new movie, The Darjeeling Limited.
The 56-year-old funnyman noted that when no one at the party wanted to drive the golf cart back to the hotel, he decided to serve as the shuttle driver for the night and gave about six people a lift. Authorities caught up to him just as he was dropping off the last couple—at a 7-Eleven, of all places.
"I ended up stopping and dropping people off on the way, like a bus," said Murray, then quipped, "I didn't know they had 7-Elevens in Stockholm."
Officers observed Murray, an avid golfer who also happened to score an Oscar nomination for 2003's Lost in Translation, buzzing around the city center. After pulling him over in front of the convenience store, they noticed that he smelled of alcohol and asked to administer a breath test, but Murray refused, citing U.S. law.
Hoping to resolve the matter quickly, the SNL alum instead submitted to a blood test and signed a statement acknowledging that he had been operating the cart under the influence and agreed to let a police officer plead guilty for him should the case go to trial.
Should the blood test come back positive, he could face drunken-driving charges that would likely land him either a fine or jail time, depending on how high his alcohol content was determined to be.
The tournament's director, Fredrik Nilsmark, said Murray had apparently commandeered the cart—which was stationed in front of the hotel in which Murray was staying and not intended for guests' use—in order to drive it to the chic Café Opera nightclub about a mile away, which was where the after-party was being held.
He told the Associated Press he didn't "hold any grudge against Bill Murray for borrowing our cart for a while."
Murray's turn in The Darjeeling Limited reunites him with director Wes Anderson, for whom he starred in 2004's The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou. It unspools in the U.S. in November.
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