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Aug 22 2007 12:00am EDT

Bill Murray Has A Caddyshack Moment in Sweden

Come on. Admit it. You've gotten a little loaded on the links before (how about a beer a hole?) and wondered what would happen if you hung a left instead of a right and took that zippy little golf cart on a short joy ride around town. Really, who is going to miss one golf cart? And they're so fun to drive! It's good to know that Bill Murray isn't that different from the rest of us when it comes to drunken golf shenanigans (So we got that going for us. Which is nice). From AP:

Bill Murray could face a drunken driving charge after cruising through downtown Stockholm in a golf cart and refusing to take a breath test, citing U.S. law.

Police officers spotted the 56-year-old actor-comedian early Sunday in the slow-moving vehicle and noticed he smelled of alcohol when they pulled him over, said Detective-Inspector Christer Holmlund of the Stockholm police.

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

Murray, who had been at a golf tournament in Sweden, signed a document admitting that he was driving under the influence, and agreed to let a police officer plead guilty for him if the case goes to court, Holmlund said.

"Then he was let go. My guess is he went back to America," Holmlund said.

[Photo Credit: Courtesy of the Everett Collection]


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