Police To Bob Dylan: We Want To See Some ID

[Kadie]

Police To Bob Dylan: We Want To See Some ID
Officers Unfamilar With Dylan's Music
WAYNE PARRY, Associated Press Writer

POSTED: 3:00 pm PDT August 14, 2009
UPDATED: 5:03 pm PDT August 14, 2009

Rock legend Bob Dylan was treated like a complete unknown by police in a New Jersey shore community when a resident called to report someone wandering around the neighborhood.

Dylan was in Long Branch, about a two-hour drive south of New York City, on July 23 as part of a tour with Willie Nelson and John Mellencamp that was to play at a baseball stadium.

A 24-year-old police officer apparently was unaware of who Dylan is and asked him for identification, Long Branch business administrator Howard Woolley said Friday.

"I don't think she was familiar with his entire body of work," Woolley said.

The incident began at 5 p.m. when a resident said a man was wandering around a low-income, predominantly minority neighborhood several blocks from the oceanfront looking at houses.

The police officer drove up to Dylan, who was wearing a blue jacket, and asked him his name. According to Woolley, the following exchange ensued:

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[EFerrari]

1. Brilliant.

[hfojvt]

2. probably needed one of the Wilburys there to translate too

I cannot believe Dylan was profiled. My irony meter is overloading.

[SCRUBDASHRUB]

4. Pretty depressing some twenty-somethings didn't know who Bob Dylan is.

[Buzz Clik]

3. What? No taser?

[hfojvt]

8. for some odd reason, Bob cooperated

Since he was clearly profiled for walking in a minority neighborhood, he shoulda made a huge fuss and charged the cops with racism and the caller too. They clearly didn't know who they were messing with. Blow some doobie in their faces Bob. Everybody must get tazed!

[hfojvt]

5. The media still wants to know

How did it feel?

Yeah, Bobby, how does it feel? When your on your own. With no direction home. Like a complete unknown?


I bet this never woulda happened to Mick Jagger.

Like a Rolling Stone, my a$$.

[ChickenHawk]

6. No biggie.....

They talked to someone who was wandering around the area and asked him who he was. That happens all the time around the world. He didn't have any I.D. so they took him back to his hotel to verify it.

[WinkyDink]

7. I think you missed the point.

[Spider Jerusalem]

13. The police have no right to request identification without reasonable cause.

Meaning suspicion of wrongdoing or being engaged in illegal activity. Just walking around isn't enough. You must be okay with the idea of a creeping police state.

[NYC_SKP]

9. Could have been profiling. Depending upon appearance, white guys in a black hood = buying drugs.

I have first hand experience with it.

Unbelievable how insistent detectives can be in the face of facts that don't agree with their presumptions.

:patriot:

[Imperfect World]

10. Bob Dylan will live to be 120.

If being a flashy, in the spotlight celebrity like Michael Jackson causes premature death, then Bob Dylan will live to be 120.

[Elwood P Dowd]

11. The cops will never leave Tweeter and The Monkey Man alone.

:beer:

[doc03]

12. Why didn't they taser him?

[madokie]

14. Probably the words of a new song is in the making

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Dylan

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

15. Did they not know who Bob Dylan was or just wondered if he was the real Bob Dylan?

If it was the former, then I find it kind of scary that a police officer would not know one of the most influential singer/songwriters in American music history. Maybe I'm just getting old, but I would think that anyone interested in the world around them would know that, even a very young person.

[mdmc]

16. they were like Bob who?

they didn't know who bob dylan was.
an interesting moment for our man Bob.

[Blue For You]

17. He tried to run, but the cops said, "You ain't going nowhere"!

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