Bob Dylan stopped by police... asked for I.D.......

[lib2DaBone]

A 24 year old police officer stopped Bob Dylan while out walking before a show.. and asked for his I.D.

lol... is there any hope left in this country.. :silly:

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http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/08/11/texas.soldier.arrested/index.html

Associated Press) 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 in nearby Lakewood.

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.

"OK, what are you doing here?" the officer asked.

"I'm on tour," the singer replied.

A second officer, also in his 20s, responded to assist the first officer. He, too, apparently was unfamiliar with Dylan, Woolley said.

The officers asked Dylan for identification.

The officers asked Dylan, 68, to accompany them back to the Ocean Place Resort and Spa, where the performers were staying. Once there, tour staff vouched for Dylan

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:

"What is your name, sir?" the officer asked.

"Bob Dylan," Dylan said.

[Warpy]

1. Oh, gawd, old enough to have outlived your fame

Of course, the years haven't been kind to him (or to many of us), so I doubt I'd recognize him, either. I'd have recognized the name, though.

Still, it had to be a real blow to the ego for the poor guy.

[Raschel]

9. Didn't he always like to be left alone? He might be enjoying the anonymity.

[dysfunctional press]

2. i doubt that too many people would recognize bob dylan if he strolled by.

and he does have a certain "vagrant" vibe about him...

[omega minimo]

17. .

:puke: :evilfrown:

[DevonRex]

21. I don't know anybody who WOULDN'T know that was Bob. My 20-something

kids love him even more than I do and would recognize him in a heartbeat.

[dysfunctional press]

30. i doubt that i know a single person that would recognize him just walking down the street.

and even if i did recognize him, i wouldn't care, because i think that most of his music, when performed by him, sucks. :shrug:

[DevonRex]

32. Yeah, a lot of people feel that way about him as a performer. You're

not alone there. I have to admit that until about a decade ago I didn't pay that much attention to him, other than a few obvious songs that everybody likes.

Then somebody told me just to read his lyrics as poetry first. I thought that was crazy, since I'm really not into poetry. But they were right. I loved it. After that I could overlook the voice. And after that I began to even like the voice.

[Webster Green]

34. Totally!

Sure looks like Bob Dylan to me. :shrug:

[pipoman]

26. Neil Young has that same vibe

I think I would know Dylan...maybe...after seeing Young's new video when he was in Wichita a few months ago, I prolly wouldn't have known him until he opened his mouth..The song is a cool story about Young's new LincVolt and the Wichita engineer who built it for him.

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=53934562

[ensho]

3. so now we aren't free enough to just walk around a neighborhood?

must have been an upscale neighborhood where everybody drives and only the hired help walks

[LWolf]

15. It was "a low-income, predominantly minority neighborhood" nt

[ensho]

19. I'm surprised - thanks for info

nt

[LWolf]

23. You're welcome.

I'm surprised as well.

Maybe the locals automatically assume anyone wandering around a low-income minority neighborhood is suspicious? :shrug:

[ZombieHorde]

4. I never understood BD's appeal. nt

[DevonRex]

20. If you're not into the music, just read his lyrics as poetry. Then you'll get it.

And after you turn on to the poetry part the love of the music will follow. Which is not to say that love of his voice will follow. I wish his son Jakob could do the singing for him.

[Zomby Woof]

31. Oh, he only permanently changed songwriting

Ranks as the second or third most influential songwriter of the 20th century. Arguably, even the first.

It's not about "appeal", it's about achievement, influence, depth, and scope.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

5. The disturbing part of this article is that they stopped a man, without

probable cause, and asked to see his ID.

This happened to me in Seaside Heights, NJ once. Pissed me off.

[nyc 4 Biden]

38. Thank you!!

Papers...papers...

[Annces]

6. he probably took it in stride, though it was an infringement on his rights n/t

[Smarmie Doofus]

7. This has happened before to Dylan.

A couple years back... think it was in Vegas... hotel security thought he was a homeless person trying to crash.

He never impressed physically and now the ravages of age are adding to the problem. Also he always dressed ever-so-casually.

Wachagonnado.

" Like a complete unknown", indeed.

[graywarrior]

8. He dresses like a gangsta bum....lol.

Bet he writes a song about this.

[omega minimo]

18. He's small in stature. Maybe they assume he can't be so big when he's so little

[malaise]

10. Bob is lucky he isn't

black. He might have missed the performance

[MasonJar]

11. Sorry, but that is outrageous. Why should he be stopped at all, irrespective

of whether the police recognized him? He was not doing anything illegal.

[Posteritatis]

13. But - but - he was wandering around the neighborhood!

Heaven protect us from the paranoid, freaking out when they see a stranger even as adults.

[Enthusiast]

24. They didn't tase him?

Good thing he didn't get mouthy. :rofl:

[BlooInBloo]

12. Americans are fucking idiots.

[LWolf]

14. Your link needs fixing:

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iy8jnlcZu7jfNUS3KQ5phFhctnBQD9A2UAHO1

This thread goes well with this, imo:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x6311753

[datasuspect]

16. maybe he was trying to buy heroin or crack

[Deja Q]

22. If this was Britney or Jessica, they would throw a tantrum and scream "DON'T YOU KNOW WHO I AM!!!!"

Before getting hauled away for disturbing the peace and rightly so...

[Skidmore]

25. Another hero cop...

[like wow man groovy]

27. He didn't have a Grand Mal hissy? He didn't tell the cop that he didn't know

who he was messing with? Knock me over with an effing feather!:wow:

[like wow man groovy]

28. He didn't have a Grand Mal hissy? He didn't tell the cop that he didn't know

who he was messing with? Knock me over with an effing feather!:wow:

(I guess this is the definition of humility, eh?)

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

29. "Zeigen Sie mir Ihre Papiere bitte" It sounds better in German, Ja?

[TexasObserver]

33. But I'll bet he knows who Eminem is.

They don't hire these because they're smart or knowledgeable.

[loyalkydem]

35. While I admit

I was never a fan of his, I'd ask for his autograph

[Orsino]

36. He admitted that it WAS him, babe.

It was he they were lookin' for.

[Soylent Brice]

37. wow. how sad.

[cbdo2007]

39. Is this all because he was a white guy in a minority neighborhood?

Hmmmm....