Golf’s greatest jester Bill Murray has gone up even further in our estimations after being stopped on a golf cart in central Stockholm. The Caddyshack star was pulled over as he returned to his hotel after ‘borrowing’ the cart to visit a nightclub half a mile away.

” The US actor Bill Murray could face a drunk driving charge in Sweden after riding through central Stockholm on a golf cart and refusing to take a breathalyser test, police said today.

Officers spotted Murray early on Monday morning in the slow-moving vehicle and noticed he smelled of alcohol when they pulled him over, Detective Inspector Christer Holmlund, of the Stockholm police, said.

"He refused to blow in the (breathalyser) instrument, citing American legislation," Mr Holmlund told the Associated Press. "So we applied the old method - a blood test. It will take 14 days before the results are in."


Bill Murray, yesterday.
Murray, the star of films including Lost in Translation and Ghostbusters, had been attending a golf tournament in Sweden. He signed a document admitting that he was driving under the influence and agreed to let a police officer plead guilty on his behalf if the case went to court, Mr Holmlund said. "Then he was let go. My guess is he went back to America," Mr Holmlund added….”

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8/28/2007 10:10:43 AM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)    Comments [0]