Williams avoids sidewalk biking fine

NEW YORK, April 20 (UPI) -- Comedian and actor Robin Williams says police pulled him over while he was riding his bicycle on a New York sidewalk, but they didn't give him a ticket.

The New York Post said Williams recounted his brush with the law when he appeared on the talk show "The View" Tuesday.

The former "Mork & Mindy" star said he was headed for a bicycle path in Manhattan when police told him to pull over.

"I wasn't dressed, like, in bike clothing ... I had a single-speed track bike, and I had on a balaclava, which basically makes me look like a terrorist or a crack dealer," the Post quoted the Oscar winner as saying. "No one else -- no one -- was on the sidewalk. Then all of a sudden, they're going, 'Can we see some ID?' I had a wallet, luckily. They say, 'Hey, Mr. Williams, how are you?' And, 'Mork!'"

He said the police warned him: "There's a new law. Look, we won't give you a ticket this time."

The Post said police declined to comment on the story.

Williams is starring in the Broadway play "Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo."