Bill Murray Reportedly Commandeered Taxi From Oakland To Sausalito Last Week
OAKLAND (CBS SF) - During an on stage appearance at the Toronto Film Festival Friday, Bill Murray recounted an unusual night he'd just spent on the Bay Area roadways.
The New York Post's Page Six reports that, during his question and answer segment at the festival's 'Bill Murray Day' event. the actor and comedian said that he had started the prior night in Oakland. He ended up jumping in a cab with a driver who said he liked to play the saxophone. The driver said he has trouble finding time to practice, but that the he kept the sax in the trunk.
"Pull over and get in the back, I know how to drive a car,' " Murray then demanded.
The driver grabbed the horn and played all the way to Marin County as Murray operated the cab.
"We stopped and got barbecue. He [wound up] playing in what some would call a sketchy, weird place in Oakland at 2:15 in the morning. I was like, 'Relax, man, you've got the [bleeping] horn! We're cool!' And it was great and it made for a beautiful night," Page Six reports.
Anybody spot Bill Murray the local freeways last Thursday?