Actor Bill Murry was having trouble differentiating life from the 1980 comedy Caddyshack. While in Stockholm Sweden, Murray was stopped by a police officer on suspicion of driving a golf cart while intoxicated. Drunk driving in a golf cart? What would have been a hoot on the big screen was not so funny to the Swedish police officer. Murray was apparently using the golf cart to shuttle himself from an upscale restaurant to his hotel in downtown Stockholm. Murray had been out with friends who had played the Scandinavian Masters Golf Tournament. No one really knows why Murray decided to use the golf cart to shuttle himself around town.
Murray refused to take a breath test for alcohol, so police took him down to the station for a blood test. At the station house, Murray signed a statement admitting to having had alcohol. News sources do not specify what his blood alcohol content was when he was stopped, but apparently it was over the legal limit in the Scandinavian country. Murray agreed to let a police officer plead guilty for him if the case goes to court and was released.
In the 1980 movie Caddyshack, a movie about a golf course and a country club, Murray plays an unstable groundskeeper who is obsessed with killing a gopher who continues to elude him. The goofy groundskeeper even decides that stalking the gopher in the dead of night with a rifle is a good idea. It’s all fun and games as long as it’s a movie. But carting oneself around the capital of Sweden in a golf cart after drinking with friends is not a comedy. It’s a crime. Drunk driving is frowned upon in Europe, just as it is in the good ole US of A. Even if it’s in a golf cart.
Angela Edwards lives on Washington State's Coastline in the Great Northwest.
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