Like A Rolling Stone......How Does It Feel...

[ABM]

...Bob, to be reduced a veritable unkown?

Funny.

From Yahoo

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.

"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:

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

"Bob Dylan," Dylan said.

"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 singer of such classics as "Like a Rolling Stone" and "Blowin' in the Wind" said that he didn't have any ID with him, that he was just walking around looking at houses to pass some time before that night's show.

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 officers thanked him for his cooperation.

"He couldn't have been any nicer to them," Woolley added.

 

[ABM]

Re: Like A Roling Stone......How Does It Feel...

I hate typos.

"Rolling"

 

[crandc]

Re: Like A Roling Stone......How Does It Feel...

He can comfort himself by knowing there is precedent.

In the 1820s in a small German town, in the early hours of the morning, a German constable arrested a dirty, disheveled man who was wandering the streets shouting and waving his arms. When taken into custody, the man began ranting "I am Beethoven!" The constable thought he had a madman on his hands and locked the madman up in jail, where he continued to rant. It was not until evening that someone thought to bring the conductor of the local orchestra, who to his shock discovered the madman was indeed Beethoven. The composer was quickly released from jail, driven home in the mayor's personal carriage, and reportedly the unfortunate constable was instructed on the difference between lunatic and genius - not always easy to tell.

True story.

 

[maxiep]

Note how Bob Dylan acted. He didn't give the Michael Irvin "Do you know who I am?" accusation while standing with a pile of blow and a couple of "self-employed models". He didn't have ID and the police needed to verify who he was. In that area, elderly people head to the beach and get lost all the time, especially in the summer. As someone who was born in Central NJ and still has family there, I can assure you Mr. Dylan had wandered into the wrong area. The police were trying to help him.

If everyone had this kind of attitude toward the police, they'd be less on edge and law enforcement would work better for everyone.

 

[porkchopexpress]

If everyone had this kind of attitude toward the police, they'd be less on edge and law enforcement would work better for everyone.

Its a two way street.