>> if you looked suspicious you would get stopped or worse.

Off topic, but remember when Bob Dylan was picked up by cops, mistaken for a homeless man in Long Beach, NJ when he walked up to a house for sale?

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2009/08/bob_dylan_st...

Not to trivialize the subject, this is literally the only funny story I've heard about this kind of thing