1) Props to the cops for being reasonable, not sure if I would have believed that he was Bob Dylan either.

2) Props to Dylan for being a Mensch and not pulling that "I'm a celebrity" scrap and cooperating

3) Props to the AP for running another non-story :roll:

 

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. (2100 GMT) 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.

 

How did it feel? A Dylan publicist did not immediately return a telephone call seeking comment Friday.

LOL, you are right a true non story

I still find it disturbing that they can take you in if you dont have ID on you....You do not have to show ID.....you are supposed to tell them who you are, which he did, but there is no law that requires you to carry and show an ID card of any kind....

They didn't take him in, just took him back to where he said he was staying. Kinda gave him a lift, but they really shoulda just left him alone as he wasn't doing anything wrong but from the sounds of it, he wasn't really in a good neighborhood so they kinda did him a favor.

 

 

Kinda a pointless story all around lol