Do cops actually DO anything?

I'm getting really sick of police helicopters lately.

(Note to the left: can't you find somewhere else to start your demonstrations which is not Bloombury?)

They uphold the capitalist regime, that's for sure.

1. Eat donuts
2. Abuse overtime pay
3. Get the "blue flu" over union/management issues
4. Give out tickets by quotas

They also get up everyday and wonder if on one of those calls (and it may be the seemingly incidental one....like a domestic dispute) they'll get wasted by someone with a gun....(I am writing from the good ole USA, remember)

It's a dirty job, and someone has to do it. Frankly, if they offered me 75-100G's a year tommorrow, I'd pass, for sure.

*zing*

Rock legend Bob Dylan was treated like a complete unknown by police in a New Jersey shore community when a resident called to report someone wandering around the neighborhood.

Dylan was in Long Branch, about a two-hour drive south of New York City, on July 23 as part of a tour with Willie Nelson and John Mellencamp that was to play at a baseball stadium in nearby Lakewood.

A 24-year-old police officer apparently was unaware of who Dylan is and asked him for identification, Long Branch business administrator Howard Woolley said Friday.

"I don't think she was familiar with his entire body of work," Woolley said.

The incident began at 5 p.m. when a resident said a man was wandering around a low-income, predominantly minority neighborhood several blocks from the oceanfront looking at houses.

The police officer drove up to Dylan, who was wearing a blue jacket, and asked him his name. According to Woolley, the following exchange ensued:

"What is your name, sir?" the officer asked.

"Bob Dylan," Dylan said.

"OK, what are you doing here?" the officer asked.

"I'm on tour," the singer replied.

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

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, that he was just walking around looking at houses to pass some time before that night's show.

The officers asked Dylan, 68, to accompany them back 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 to them," Woolley added.

How did it feel? A Dylan publicist did not immediately return a telephone call seeking comment Friday.

that is one bored police

Don't know where that came from, but why is this news even? Are we supposed to laugh at the ignorance of the cop? I know I would probably not recognize most people in the top 40 today...

because that's the same

I'm in my late 30s and probably wouldn't recognise Bob Dylan if I saw him. I've heard the name and I've seen him on tv occasionally but he doesn't register.I suspect if you asked a number of British people of Jamaican descent who are approximately my age to pick him out of a line of similar looking white guys most of us would have difficulty. He's just not that kind of cultural touchstone for us. And someone in their 20s..? Sheesh!

I like how the inference of that story's all about how clueless the cop had to be to not recognise Dylan. Rather than how little Dylan impinges on certain sections of the community. Boomers and white folks automatically assuming that the things and people that are important to them have any importance to the rest of us...

my cousin's husband is a policeman. apparently he was so shocked to get a gun because he's a "pacifist"

huh so the cops can pick you up for walking around

I feel like it's safe to assume that these New Jersey cops weren't 20 year old Jamaican-British people

okay, sorry, but if you don't recognize Dylan, you are either an idiot or just so completely absorbed by Lady Gaga that you have dildo blinders on.

"One of us had better call up the cops."
And so Patty calls the cops
And they arrive on the scene with their red lights flashin'
In the hot New Jersey night.

It's retarded to expect everyone to recognize Bob Dylan. Especially cops. The only news in the story:

huh so the cops can pick you up for walking around

― ::googles 9/11:: (brownie), Sunday, August 16, 2009 3:14 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark

rong.

What kind of stupid bored paranoid loser calls the cops every time someone they don't know uses their sidewalk? Charge that person with wasting the cops' time.

wherever this is, the place probably has too many cops, if they're responding to calls like that.

Probably someone who still hasn't forgiven him for going electric.

If I were the cop, I would have said "I'll show you what it means to go electric!" and then I would have tazered him.

Lady Gaga that you have dildo blinders on.

shshh! don't give her ideas...

I feel like it's safe to assume that these New Jersey cops weren't 20 year old Jamaican-British people

― iatee, Sunday, 16 August 2009 20:14 (2 hours ago)

I think I'm with you on that one. The only reason I knew who Mick Jagger was during the 70s is because he collaborated with Peter Tosh on a song.

But I'm still a bit bemused by the idea that Bob Dylan is such a big deal that a) the cop should care about who he is and b) everyone regardless of age or background (even in the US) would know what he looks like...

he's in a fucking pepsi commercial that is on approximately every 20 minutes on every major tv network right now btw

they don't have to care about who he is, but even someone who didn't listen to rock music would presumably be familiar with bob dylan as one of the biggest american historical icons / pop icons / reference points.

not everyone would recognize a picture of thomas jefferson either, but that doesn't make it any less O_o-worthy

okay, sorry, but if you don't recognize Dylan, you are either an idiot or just so completely absorbed by Lady Gaga that you have dildo blinders on.

wow

I mean tbqf who wouldn't call the cops if u saw this dude walking in your neighborhood http://jeffhyatt.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/bob-dylan-tour-2009.jpg

http://www.independent.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00150/dylan2_150321t.jpg

dunno why im so surprised that ilx would immediately turn a funny news story into a retarded argument

bonus points for including cross-atlantic cultural differences tho

It's like alchemy. I find it beautiful tbh.

I try to call the cops on Bob Dylan the moment I recognize him.

Had a few close calls almost filing false reports on Dylanesque creep-os...

https://i.ibb.co/HTFFbvb1/IMG-9399.jpg

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