Posted on 09/04/2007 5:58:35 PM PDT by WesternCulture
Hollywood star Bill Murray has spoken out about the events that led to him leaving a blood sample at a Stockholm police station last month.
While speaking to the press at the Venice Film Festival, Murray was asked by a Swedish journalist to explain just what he was doing driving around Stockholm city centre in a golf cart.
"A friend of mine, Jesper Parnevik, invited me to play in a pro-am golf tournament in Stockholm. I was driven to a party celebrating the event in a golf cart," Murray said.
"After the party, the people that drove in the golf cart did not wish to drive so I said 'I can drive' and I drove."
But the journey from the Café Opera night club to the Hotell Anglais proved more circuitous than he had anticipated.
"I ended up stopping and dropping people off on the way like a bus. I had about six people in the thing and I dropped them off one at a time," said Murray.
Had it not been for a convenience store pit-stop, however, the inebriated actor might have avoided detection at the hands of local law enforcement officers.
"As the last couple were getting out, who wished to be dropped off at a 7-Eleven (I didn't know they had 7-Elevens in Stockholm), they [the police] just asked me to come over and assumed that I was drunk.
The assumption later proved correct and Murray's last gasp exit strategy proved futile.
"I tried to explain to them that I was a golfer," he said.
The Man Who Knew Too Little. It wasn’t a movie, it was prophecy!
Stockholm nights belong to Porsches, not retarded ‘golfers’.
Bill Murray is lucky to end up being questioned by local police.
A lame representative of the Stockholm Porsche tradition;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6X0IRlrDaAg
“Gunga Galunga” would be about all I could think to say in such circumstances.
Ya gotta give points for chutzpah.
““Gunga Galunga” would be about all I could think to say in such circumstances.
Ya gotta give points for chutzpah.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShacMAn_HK8
This could prove very expensive for Bill. I believe Sweden tailors its vehicle fines to the operator’s income. I think I recall reading about an executive whose fine reached six figures US.
No Stockholm street or any other paved route nourishing Her will ever belong to third rate golfers.
No Stockholm street or any other paved route nourishing Her will ever belong to third rate golfers.
Take your car/bike to Sweden instead. That was Finland.
When George Jones was married to Tammy Wynette, she hid the car keys from him to keep him from driving to the liquor store for more booze. So he drove his riding lawnmower to the liquor store.
“Mr. Murray, do you have a license to drive in Sweden?”
“No, officer, but I do have a license to kill gophers from the government of the United Nations.”
Hope that guy in the video splatters his brains all over the asphalt before he hurts someone else.
You don’t need a license to kill gophers. You don’t even need a reason.
Aye! Well, do it, man!
“Hope that guy in the video splatters his brains all over the asphalt before he hurts someone else.”
- ‘Ghost Rider’ was of course doing something extremely irresponsible.
This maniac was driving at speeds not even imaginable to most Swedish legal drivers - anyhow, that day small children were brought to nursery schools and so on, just like any other day.
In any case, Swedish police finally caught him. Today, Ghost Rider is in jail.
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