Posted on 08/15/2009 11:41:02 AM PDT by Dadofmany
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.
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Dr. Gates should take a lesson from Dylan.
I don’t think this will get the same attention, and what ever happened to the gates deal?
Can't have a lone white guy wandering around in a black neighborhood now can we?
I expect Gates got a promise of a whole ton of stimulus money, in return for STFU about a lawsuit, in order to get that whole thing out of the news cycle.
Trying to think of a Robert Zimmerman line here,......
First in with “a complete unknown” quote,....?
Trying to think of a Robert Zimmerman line here,......
First in with “a complete unknown” quote,....?
How does it feel
To be on your own
With no direction home
Like a complete unknown
All he needed to do was to ask him to sing the phrase
“Like a Rolling Stone”.
When white drug buyers go to drug neighborhoods to buy drugs, the CHIEF law breakers are the BUYERS..?
No, but the buyers are WHITE and there is such a thing as PRIORITIES, ok? I mean there are just SOME things society cannot tolerate.
Oh...and uh...there IS a war on drugs, OK? Remember that.
The moment Sharpton arrived on the scene you just know some payola was involved.
The answer my friend
is blowin' in the wind.
The answer is blowin' in the wind.
So what? Is Bob Dylan some sort of God or something that everyone is required by law to know who he is and what he looks like? I would walk right past him as well. If I bothered to remember what he looked like I'd probably hurl an insulting comment at him as I walked by about his idiotic political views, misguided environmentalism, what a hypocrite he is expecting others to conserve while he exploits to satisfy his enormous carbon appetite.
The cops should be fired, prosecuted and sent to a work camp in Siberia.
The officer did the officer’s job.
...and he didn’t even ask “DON’T YOU KNOW WHO I AM!!????”
That is a perfect pic for a bit of joker makeup as well.
For not knowing one of the Leftwing moonbats demi Gods and daring to as who he is? Yea, if they had their way, she would be.
Maybe in a few more years...
You obviously don’t know a damn thing about Dylan’s political beliefs!!
Anyway, at least he’s not a “freak” like MJ or Elvis turned out to be.
I couldn't help but get at least one photo of Zimmerman's Gulfstream to show. : )
I think the officer, Dylan, and Nobama should all get together. Maybe they could all share a drink in the Rose garden!
Why is 20 something old cop supposed to know who he is?
I don’t see why this is a story.
this is a great story. maybe dylan will realize that he’s not very good after all
How dare a citizen walk the streets minding his own business. I like how the cops had to walk him back to his hotel.
NJ is crazy.
White guys wandering around black neighborhoods are usually hoping to score some druge.
I think the story is that he is a star, a legend, and didn’t cause a scene. A story with a happy ending. one that can be an example to others. Thats all.
Sorry, I posted before I got to your post.
LOL. Yeah, you can get into a heap of trouble looking at houses in Long Branch. He should have gone a little further west toward Norwood Ave, you can still get a good eyeful there.
And yet Mellencamp roams free. Amazing!
And Willie too, with all his priors and everything!
More like YOU don't. Someday when you get off your knees from the Dylan alter you should check them out.
Bob Dylan says: " Barack Obama is 'changin' America". He has backed the Illinois senator to do for modern America what the generation before did in the 1960s.
Times interview: Dylan gives a ringing endorsement to Mr Obama, the first ever black presidential candidate, claiming he is "redefining the nature of politics from the ground up".
Asked about his views on American politics, he said: "Well, you know right now America is in a state of upheaval. Poverty is demoralising. You can't expect people to have the virtue of purity when they are poor".
"But we've got this guy out there now who is redefining the nature of politics from the ground up...Barack Obama."He's redefining what a politician is, so we'll have to see how things play out. Am I hopeful? Yes, I'm hopeful that things might change. Some things are going to have to."
He added: “You should always take the best from the past, leave the worst back there and go forward into the future."
Dylan's endorsement contains much symbolic significance. The legendary singer-songwriter, who has an art exhibition opening in London next week, became a focal point for young people worldwide when he released the album 'The times they are a-changin'," including the famous song of that name, in 1964.
The track, which he wrote as the social liberation of the '60s astonished politicians and parents, included lines urging people to accept and embrace what was happening around them.
Memorable lines included: "Come senators, congressmen, please heed the call. Don't stand in the doorway, don't block up the hall," and: "Come mothers and fathers throughout the land, and don't criticise what you can't understand. Your sons and your daughters are beyond your command. Your old road is rapidly agin'."
Dylan songs are played loud and proud by all the hope and change leftwing moonbats.
Well it sure is a good story.
I have to admire someone like Dylan who doesn’t have the need to be to an object of adoration, but seeks to have privacy.
Bob Who? Dylan Gets Treated Like a Commoner (How does it feel?)
They’ll stone you when you’re walking on the street
They’ll stone you when you’re trying to keep your seat
They’ll stone you when your walking on the floor
They’ll stone you when your walking to the door
But I would not feel so all alone
Everybody must get stoned
Isn’t this like expecting a young cop in 1968 to recognize
Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy?
Sure looks like he wanted to do his rollin’ stoned.
Who leave home without your IDs! WHO I ASK YOU? WHO!!?
Dylan says “Dreams of My Father” piqued his interest in Obama, but that doesn’t mean the ever-irascible singer-songwriter is suddenly buying into politics as an agent for change.
“Politics creates more problems than it solves. It can be counter-productive,” Dylan told Flanagan in this excerpt, which can be found on BobDylan.com (the full interview can also be downloaded and read via .pdf). “The real power is in the hands of small groups of people and I don’t think they have titles.”
April, 2009
You obviously know nothing about the guy. He’s not a partisan and he sure ain’t an environmentalist.
Just because its kinda funny. Dylan didn’t seem to mind.
lol...I have no doubt about that, cause you're a class act.
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.
Bob is good people, which the article clearly depicts, regardless of what the ignorant buckets mouths bark from the side lines.
Dylan did not endorse him. Asked if he would be a good president, his answer is “I don’t know”. Dylan was a helluva lot more glowing about getting an “honorary Texan” award from George Bush than anything he’s said about Obama.
“This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway.” - Bob Dylan
I always thought this was insightful!
I’d have to agree.
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