Robin Williams pulled over for riding his bike on sidewalk
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Robin Williams had a run-in with the law recently when he was caught riding his bicycle on a New York City street — but that’s not the shocking part. Apparently the comedian, starring in Broadway’s ‘Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo,’ was dressed as a ‘terrorist or a crack dealer’ when he was pulled over by police.
As he told it to the ladies on ‘The View,’ he was cruising down the sidewalk on a one-speed track bike wearing a balaclava (a.k.a., a mask) and looking like a ‘terrorist or crack dealer.’
Williams heard a ‘whoop, whoop’ and ‘pull over.’ Once officers checked his ID and he pulled down the mask, they let him go with just a warning.
‘I got hit by a bike on a sidewalk,’ Elizabeth Hasselbeck piped up during the story.
Williams poked back: ‘Well, then that’s why. It is the law because of her.’
The takeaway? Not every scary dude on a bike is a crack dealer or a terrorist — he could be Robin Williams.
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— Emily Christianson