Bod Dylan Racially Profiled and Detained

[IllTestYourGirls]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz...ic-legend.html

I guess you shouldnt be white and walking in a Latin area.

Like a complete unknown: Bob Dylan frogmarched to collect ID after rookie policewoman fails to recognise scruffy music legend

By Annette Witheridge
Last updated at 10:50 PM on 14th August 2009

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He has sold albums by the million and was the idol of the 1960s protest movement. But yesterday Bob Dylan discovered what it's like to be just a face in the crowd.

Police were called in a quiet seaside town after he was spotted freewheelin' down the street and apparently acting suspiciously. A 22-year-old female officer demanded to see his identification papers.

He assumed she would at least recognise the name if not the face. But she ordered him into the back of her car and took him to his hotel to check his story.

Then she radioed her older colleagues at the police station to ask if anyone knew who Bob Dylan was.

'I'm afraid we all fell about laughing,' said Craig Spencer, a senior officer in Long Branch, New Jersey. 'If it was me, I'd have been demanding his autograph, not his ID.

'The poor woman has taken rather a lot of abuse from us. I offered to bring in some of my Dylan albums. Unfortunately, she doesn't know what vinyl is either.'

It was in 1965 that Dylan wrote Like A Rolling Stone, with its line: 'How does it feel to be on your own, a complete unknown?'

He found out while staying at the Ocean Place Resort in Long Branch. Before taking part in a concert with Willie Nelson and John Mellencamp, he decided to take a stroll through the town's Latin quarter.

'Residents called to complain there was an old scruffy man acting suspiciously,' said officer Spencer. 'It was an odd request because it was mid-afternoon. But it's an ethnic Latin area and the residents felt he didn't fit in.'

This is not the first time that Dylan has wandered off alone while on tour.

After a concert in Belfast in 1991, he shunned his chauffeur-driven limo and was captured by a TV crew waiting at a bus stop.

And in the middle of an American tour he popped unannounced into the childhood home of author Mark Twain.

When the stunned curator asked if he was really Bob Dylan, he said: 'I guess I am.'

[cherrylula]

like a rolling stone

[Fletch XXX]

anyone who thinks whites do not get treated the same by cops are fucking idiots

[Shoehorn!]

Bob Dylan is a legend.

[The Judge]

He is not white, he is of the ethnicity of the gentleman in my avatar. Dylan is not his real name. I feel cheated each time I hear his 'music'.

Originally Posted by Fletch XXX

anyone who thinks whites do not get treated the same by cops are fucking idiots

[PornMD]

Nice subject...is Bod Dylan a pornstar?

[Cash]

So he did nothing illegal and was taken by the police? Jesus ...

[Jdoughs]

Originally Posted by The Judge

He is not white, he is of the ethnicity of the gentleman in my avatar. Dylan is not his real name. I feel cheated each time I hear his 'music'.

That gentleman looks pretty white to me.

[Robbie]

Originally Posted by Jdoughs

That gentleman looks pretty white to me.

I believe he is referring to the fact that Dylan isn't his birth name and that he is Jewish.

By the way, Bob Dylan is one of the greatest songwriters, lyricists, and poets that has ever lived.

[Machete_]

Had to be live that story, since he is touring in Cali at the moment