Young people these days - 22 year old cop fails to recognize Bob Dylan

[Syt]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/bigbrother/article-1206617/Like-complete-unknown-Bob-Dylan-frogmarched-collect-ID-rookie-policewoman-fails-recognise-scruffy-music-legend.html

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

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.'

[derspiess]

To be fair, she probably couldn't understand anything he said (which I guess to us older people would be another indicator that it's Bob Dylan).

[crazy canuck]

When asked for ID, the officer was told the answer is blowing in the wind.  Missing the reference,  the officer proceeded to arrest the man for obstruction of justice.

[CountDeMoney]

A 22-year-old female officer demanded to see his identification papers.

And it wasn't even an election day.

[derspiess]

When asked for ID, the officer was told the answer is blowing in the wind.  Missing the reference,  the officer proceeded to arrest the man for obstruction of justice.

Like a complete unknown?

[Richard Hakluyt]

Even if he wasn't Bob Dylan the complaint against him was a bit ridiculous. Must have been walking in a non-approved Jewish and/or elderly way 

[DGuller]

Good thing he wasn't walking suspiciously in Florida.

[CountDeMoney]

But it's an ethnic Latin area and the residents felt he didn't fit in.'

The harmonica harness was a dead giveaway in a Salsa-Only Zone. 

[Neil]

He got racial profiled?

[CountDeMoney]

He got racial profiled?

Acting suspicious.  He had a bag of Skittles, rolled it up and smoked it.

[lustindarkness]

I wonder if he understands himself?

[The Larch]

Breaking news from 2009!

[Syt]

Breaking news from 2009!

Shhh! 

[11B4V]

He got racial profiled?

Acting suspicious.  He had a bag of Skittles, rolled it up and smoked it.

The officer was black?