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NJ Cops Treat Dylan Like a Complete Unknown

Officers pick up rock legend out on walk

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(Newser) – A New Jersey police officer in her 20s didn't recognize Bob Dylan when she responded to a call about a suspicious, shabbily dressed man staring into a vacant house, the Asbury Park Press reports. "What is your name, sir?" she asked. "Bob Dylan," he replied. "OK, what are you doing here?" the officer asked. "I'm on tour," the singer said, explaining that he was looking at houses to pass the time.

The patrolwoman summoned a second officer who apparently also failed to recognize the rock legend. Dylan was asked for ID, which he didn't have. After he told them was staying in "a big hotel on the ocean," the pair brought him to the Oceanside Resort, where staff vouched for the singer. "We all got a laugh,'' the patrolwoman says. ""He didn't look like a famous person.''

Bob Dylan performs as the opening act of the Pawtucket Arts Festival at McCoy Stadium, in Pawtucket, R.I.
Bob Dylan performs as the opening act of the Pawtucket Arts Festival at McCoy Stadium, in Pawtucket, R.I.   (AP Photo/Stew Milne, File)
Bob Dylan was reported to police last month for wandering around a New Jersey neighborhood and peeking into a vacant house.
Bob Dylan was reported to police last month for wandering around a New Jersey neighborhood and peeking into a vacant house.   (AP Photo/Sony BMG, William Claxton)
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cochiserocks
Aug 15, 09 7:21 AM CDT
""He didn't look like a famous person.''- I'd expect nothing less from the great man. That's class that is - Given that a 'famous person' today is generally a desperate, talentless moron with their lips injected with their arse fat, a smile so fake it needs to be glued on every morning, and wearing the sort of clothes and jewellery that scream O, O , O, OVER HERE! LOOK AT ME!!! I AM FAMOUS!!! PLEEEASE LOOK AT ME!!! Trust Mr Dylan to inject a a little reality into the proceedings. ""He didn't look like a famous person.'' Of course he didn't - He's bigger than that! Reply
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jenna
Aug 15, 09 11:16 AM CDT
I was going to say something else but, after reading your statement, I have to totally agree!!
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plstyle
Aug 15, 09 1:43 PM CDT
The guys sounds like he might have been dressed like a gdamn slob and you people are praising him this? on the weeks i don't work, i don't comb my hair, shave or wear anything more then a tank top and shorts, but i can hardly say that its all in an effort to fight the fashion movement or thumb my nose at the media... Its because im feeling like a lazy sob!
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cognitivefilter
Aug 15, 09 2:42 PM CDT
@ pistyle, most rock stars are complete slobs, if they're dressing the way they feel who cares. they get paid to make music, not dress nice
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freethemall
Aug 15, 09 7:03 PM CDT
Well, this old hippy is surely a Bob Dylan fan, but methinks, perhaps, this is laying it on it on a bit thick, so to speak.
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