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It's nice that Arlo and Officer Obie ended up becoming friends and Obanhein embraced ways to make positives from the event, song, and eventual movie, in which h
by Mountain_Skies 4y ago
It's nice that Arlo and Officer Obie ended up becoming friends and Obanhein embraced ways to make positives from the event, song, and eventual movie, in which he played himself.
- dredmorbius 4y agoObie is also the police officer depicted in the Norman Rockwell painting "The Runaway", noted in this ... Alice's Restaurant story: <https://www.bytesdaily.com.au/2013/06/alices-restaurant-part-2.html https://www.bytesdaily.com.au/2013/06/alices-restaurant-part...> A much higher-resolution image: <https://image.invaluable.com/housePhotos/ROGALLERY/64/675364/H4175-L213096745_original.jpg https://image.invaluable.com/housePhotos/ROGALLERY/64/675364...>
- wpietri 4y agoAlas, according to Wikipedia, that story is slightly too good to be true. Obie did pose for Rockwell, but was not the officer from "The Runaway", who was instead Massachusetts state trooper Richard Clemens: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Obanhein https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Obanhein
- dredmorbius 4y agoTIL. Thanks for the correction.
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