The Answer Is Blowin' In The Wind

No I.D.? No clue who he was? Why??


Rock legend Bob Dylan was treated like a complete unknown by New Jersey police.

Dylan was in Long Branch, N.J., as part of a tour with Willie Nelson and John Mellencamp that was to play at a baseball stadium on July 23.

At 5 p.m. a resident called police to report a man looking at houses while wandering around a low-income neighborhood several blocks from the oceanfront.

A 24-year-old police officer appeared on the scene, asked Dylan his name, which didn't ring a bell, even though he said he was there on tour.

``I don't think she was familiar with his entire body of work,'' Long Branch business administrator Howard Woolley said Friday.

A second officer, also in his 20s, responded to assist the first one. He, too, apparently was unfamiliar with Dylan.

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 with him and that he was just walking around to pass time before that night's show.

The officers then asked Dylan, 68, to accompany them to the Ocean Place Resort and Spa, where the performers were staying. Once there, tour staff vouched for Dylan.

The officers thanked him for his cooperation.

``He couldn't have been any nicer,'' Woolley said.

Guess it's true. When you got nothing, you got nothing to lose.