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17 hours ago 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 ...
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(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 ...
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Bob Dylan Stopped By Cops, Asked For ID In New Jersey ...
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Something Is Happening Here, But You Don’t Know What It Is…
The Agitator —
... Seems to me the media accounts of this story are missing the point. Yes, it’s amusing and a bit surreal to picture Bob Dylan wandering around a local neighborhood near where he’s giving a concert. But now everyone’s having a good laugh about how two local police officers had no idea who Dylan was when they stopped and detained him after some residents reported an elderly man acting “suspiciously.” ...
Something Is Happening Here, But You Don't Know What It Is...
Hit & Run —
... Seems to me the media accounts of this story are missing the point. Yes, it’s amusing and a bit surreal to picture Bob Dylan wandering around a local neighborhood near where he’s giving a concert. But now everyone’s having a good laugh about how two local police officers had no idea who Dylan was when they stopped and detained him after some residents reported an elderly man acting “suspiciously.” ...
Bob Dylan and the Police (and What it Illustrates)
PoliBlog: A Rough Draft of my Thoughts —
Via the AP: You’re Bob Dylan? NJ police want to see some ID
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.
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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 ...
Bob Dylan - Born To Walk
JustOneMinute —
... , who links to this AP account and says this: There was a time when we condescendingly used the term “your papers, please” to distinguish ourselves from Eastern Block countries and other authoritarian states. ...
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