Bill Murray Talks Stockholm Arrest

VENICE, Italy (September 4, 2007) — Bill Murray has addressed his bizarre golf cart incident in Stockholm.

Last week, the star of “Lost In Translation” and “Groundhog Day,” was stopped by Swedish authorities, who told the AP the actor, when he was pulled over, smelled of alcohol.

Murray, who is attending the 64th annual Venice Film Festival, told reporters Monday, that authorities assumed he was inebriated.

“[The police] asked me to come over and they assumed that I was drunk and I explained to them that I was a golfer,” the AP reports Murray saying.

Murray said he was hanging out with friends following a golf tournament.

When no one offered to take the wheel and drive people home, Murray took the reins.

“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 and 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,” Murray said.

Swedish police say Murray refused a breathalyzer so “we applied the old method – a blood test,” Detective-Inspector Christer Holmlund of the Stockholm Police said at the time.

Murray was released following the test. Results are expected in another week.