<p>One of my musical heroes (who does have an honorary doctorate from Princeton) was arrested recently. I think both the young officer and the suspect handled it admirably: [“Like</a> a complete unknown”](<a href=“New Jersey homeowner calls cops on Bob Dylan - ABC News”>New Jersey homeowner calls cops on Bob Dylan - ABC News)</p>
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<p>I agree. I especially like how once ID was provided, she did not arrest him.</p>
<p>LOL, a the story and at PMK.</p>
<p>“I especially like how once ID was provided, she did not arrest him.”</p>
<p>I especially like the way Dylan didn’t give her even the slightest reason to think he was acting disorderly (and was not verbally abusive and confrontational), thereby risking arrest over a simple little ID issue.</p>
<p>Even in Bob’s best days, he looks a bit rough.
Glad she didn’t ask him to sing a tune :)</p>
<p>If she had asked him to sing, she would be realized how he were out of tune and rhythm so that she … :)</p>
<p>I’m glad he didn’t shout that the officer was pulling the gender card</p>
<p>How nice that some famous folks will be polite to civil servants…</p>
<p>Yes, but he did not have his ID on him, so could not prove who he was to a 20-something cop who recognized neither his face nor his name; he was not in his own home (unlike another somewhat less famous person who got into trouble with a local cop :)); and he was “profiled”: walking while white in a Latino community. And finally, the arresting cop did not make up a story about what she was told by the people who reported this suspicious-looking character.</p>
<p>I agree that in this case both cop and Dylan acted well (though one wishes that 20 somethings would know who Dylan is!); In the Gates-gate, both Gates and the arresting cop acted badly; but the cop more than Gates.</p>
<p>If you see him in your neighborhood, tell him to come to Hibbing next May for Dylan Days 2010. [Dylan</a> Days schedule of events](<a href=“http://www.dylandays.com/dylandays.htm]Dylan”>http://www.dylandays.com/dylandays.htm) He can find a house for sale in his old home town. :)</p>
<p>Is this a real article? I thought I was reading something from the Onion. Especially this line:</p>
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<p>This honestly sounds like something from a parody. I have to admit though that I don’t understand where the police officer comes off arresting somebody for not having ID on them. That certainly doesn’t seem to be against the law - someone correct me if I’m wrong.</p>
<p>I HATE how once he showed his ID, there was no futher trouble. In fact, he wasn’t even arrested in his own bus for disorderly conduct - I mean, he dared to TALK to the police officer- any self respecting police officer would have tackled him to the ground, arrest his ass and detain him for several hours in jail.</p>
<p>At least he wasn’t trying to forcefully open the doo-, I mean, open the box to grab a flyer from the for-sale sign. That would have cost the next year, rotting away in jail.</p>
<p>Disorderly conduct should be punished.</p>
<p>/sarcasm</p>
<p>As Marite pointed out, this really was profiling, since he was out of place as an older white male in a Hispanic neighborhood.
Although he is arguably this countrys most famous living protest singer, Dylan didnt protest or raise his voice to the officer.
This actually happened a few weeks ago, it barely hit the local papers, let alone the national airwaves.
As a result, he didnt even get a presidential comment or an invite to the White House for a beer (though Im sure he could wangle an invitation if he wanted, Obama reportedly has over 30 Dylan songs on his Ipod :D).</p>
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<p>I agree. We need to send him the thread about moisturizers for those of us 50+ (and rock stars who have partied too much.)</p>
<p>Thank goodness it wasn’t Kieth Richards! The family would have called in a suspicious zombie, and the cop would have believed it once she saw him!</p>
<p>Aw this stuff happens all the time. My BIL was visiting my ailing MIL last week in a rundown urban neighborhood in a factory town where she’s lived for 90 years since birth there. </p>
<p>It was Saturday night, and my gray-bearded BIL was walking around outside, trying to see above the rooflines to determine if Sabbath had ended so he could turn on some electricity.</p>
<p>A neighbor phoned it in to police as a suspicious man wearing odd circular head-gear, peering around the houses. Could be a robber. </p>
<p>When my SIL got another neighbor’s warning call, she realized it was her own husband under suspicion, so yanked him indoors.</p>
<p>You can really never be too careful these days.</p>
<p>We had a neighborhood watch group many years ago. The police officer who came to the meeting told us that we were be alert if anyone looked out of place. That’s the point. </p>
<p>Last week while my neighbors were out of town the son called to tell me that a friend was going to be taking his car somewhere. I forgot to call the next door neighbor and tell her. Fortunately, she called me when she saw some kid taking our neighbor’s car. I was able to tell her that I knew about it, and apologized for not giving her a head’s up. In my neighborhood we do this for each other.</p>
<p>We look out for each other. If I see someone walking down my street who seems out of place, who doesn’t look like one of the folks who normally walks for exercise, I may not call the cops, but I’m going to keep an eye out, and I may call a friend at the other end of the street to suggest that she keep her eye out as well. </p>
<p>Is that profiling? </p>
<p>Now, I know my neighbors, so if they are locked out they are more likely to come over here for their spare key than I am to call the cops as they try to break into their house. But if someone I don’t know is acting suspiciously in my neighborhood, I’m calling the cops.</p>
<p>I remember around the 1st anniversary of 9/11 when I was picking my son up from middle school. He was enrolled 1/2 days, homeschooled the other half. So I was there in our big honking van parked in front of the school in the middle of the day. The assistant principal (new) came up (very cautiously) to see who I was and why I was there. I politely explained, and there was no problem.</p>
<p>My youngest son was almost 6 feet tall in 8th grade. He was approached by the assistant principal and school officer at the end of the school day once (by then he was attending full time) because they thought he was a high schooler hanging around the middle school. He answered their questions politely and that was that.</p>
<p>It’s appropriate for folks in charge of our safety to look at things that seem out of place. That may, sometimes, be us.</p>
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<p>Seriously, who else sings like Bob Dylan (except someone parodying Bob Dylan)?</p>
<p>So if you are walking around, minding your own business, the police can pul you aside, demand to see ID, and put you in the back of a cop car because you have no ID></p>
<p>Does any one find that scary? That you can be doing nothing wroing but putting your head down inthe rain and you can be tossed in a cop car></p>
<p>I find that really creepy. Why do we have to walk around with ID? WHy do we have to prove who we are at all times, becuase that is what this event suggests. What reason besides a phone call did the police officer have for even talking to Mr. Dylan. None whatsoever, just an a phone call.</p>
<p>Scary indeed</p>
<p>What kind of socieity are we that anyone walking around “oddly” means calling the cops who then put you in the back of a police car, call peple to get ID, and you aren’t let go, even though you have done nothing wrong, until you can prove who you are</p>
<p>What did mr dylan do that deserved a call to the police> sad society we live in and paranoid to say the least</p>