Bob Dylan Gets Detained by the New Jersey Police

Bob Dylan as soon as sang, “In Jersey something’s authorized so long as you do not get caught.”

However he did get caught by the New Jersey police on July 23, 2009. Dylan was then on tour with Willie Nelson and John Mellencamp, performing in minor-league baseball parks throughout America. On that day, they’d performed a present in Lakewood, New Jersey, roughly an hour and a half’s drive outdoors New York Metropolis.

That night, police in Lengthy Department, New Jersey, a couple of half hour from the live performance venue, obtained a name from a home-owner a couple of strange-looking man who’d wandered into their yard which had a “on the market” signal on it.

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“We obtained a name for a suspicious individual,” 24-year-old Lengthy Department police officer Kristie Buble later advised ABC Information. “It was pouring rain outdoors, and I used to be proper across the nook so I responded. By that point he was strolling down the road. I requested him what he was doing within the neighborhood and he stated he was taking a look at a home on the market.”

However when Buble requested for his id, the person’s reply was doubtful to her.

“I requested him what his identify was and he stated, ‘Bob Dylan,'” Buble stated. “Now, I’ve seen footage of Bob Dylan from a very long time in the past and he did not appear like Bob Dylan to me in any respect. He was carrying black sweatpants tucked into black rain boots, and two raincoats with the hood pulled down over his head.

“So I stated, ‘OK Bob, what are you doing in Lengthy Department?’ He stated he was touring the nation with Willie Nelson and John Mellencamp. So now I am actually somewhat fishy about his story. I didn’t know what to consider or the place he was coming from, and even who he was.”

Buble defined that Dylan did not seem harmful or delusional, “simply suspicious. You realize, it was pouring rain and the whole lot.” It did not assist that Dylan wasn’t carrying any ID and when requested the place he was staying, essentially the most particular reply he might give was that his tour buses have been parked “at some large lodge on the ocean.” Buble wagered he meant Ocean Place Convention Resort, situated proper on the Jersey coast.

“‘OK Bob, why do not you get within the automobile and we’ll drive to the lodge and go confirm this?'” she then advised him. “I put him at the back of the automobile. To be trustworthy with you, I did not actually consider this was Bob Dylan. It by no means crossed my thoughts that this might actually be him.”

On this second, some rock stars might have pulled the “Do not you realize who I’m?” card, however not Dylan. He complied with Buble’s directions solely.

“He was very nice, although, and he stated he understood why I needed to confirm his id and why I could not let him go,” Buble stated. “I pulled into the car parking zone, and certain sufficient there have been these huge tour buses, and I assumed, ‘Whoa.'”

Ultimately, Buble was proven Dylan’s passport by his supervisor.

“‘OK,'” she recalled saying. “Um, have a pleasant day.”

Was Bob Dylan Searching for Bruce Springsteen’s Home?

Following this incident, some followers speculated that Dylan had been in search of the previous residence of Bruce Springsteen, situated only a few blocks from the place he was picked up by the police. It was at that home that the Boss wrote a lot of the fabric for 1975’s Born to Run.

This idea was primarily based on the truth that Dylan had lately visited the childhood properties of John Lennon in Liverpool, England and of Neil Younger in Winnipeg, Canada.

In Might of 2009, Dylan additionally went unnoticed in Liverpool, casually becoming a member of a 14-person public tour of the Lennon residence for a modest £16.

“He might have booked a non-public tour however he was joyful to go on the bus with everybody else,” a spokesperson for the Nationwide Belief, which owns the home, advised the BBC then.

A number of months previous to that, he chatted up the house owners of Younger’s former home in Winnipeg, who had come residence sooner or later to discover a man ready in their yard. The couple was used to individuals stopping by to take a look at the home, however even they did not fairly acknowledge Dylan at first.

“I am wanting round, and I understand, this man having a tuque on has actually nice cowboy boots on,” resident John Kiernan advised Rolling Stone. “He was carrying very nice leather-based pants. And I understand I am staring face-to-face with Bob Dylan.”

Allison Rapp is a New York Metropolis-based music and tradition journalist. Her work has appeared in Brooklyn Journal, Insider, Rock Cellar, Metropolis Limits and extra. She can also be the host of Huge Yellow Podcast, a present about Joni Mitchell. She tweets at @allisonrapp22.