Paul Van Dyk Caught Humming “For An Angel” In Public Hoping To Be Recognised

German trance DJ Paul Van Dyk was today arrested after it was alleged that he had been badgering people by loitering in public places humming the melody to his 1999 smash hit For An Angel in the hopes that people would recognise him.

Witnesses have described how the 42-year-old DJ was “humming the main melody quite loudly while making eye contact with anyone nearby” and “performing DJ gestures like pretending to twist knobs and clapping”.

The producer, who is understood to have mostly hung around the trance section of his local record shop, has so far failed to have himself recognised by anyone based on humming alone “even among trance fans, people who work there and people who were actually buying his records”.

“I didn’t know who he was,” claimed one 29-year-old man Jack Brown, who encountered Van Dyk in a local McDonalds behaving erratically and scaring children. “I vaguely recognised the track when he was humming it but I just never knew or cared who had made it.”

“He was hanging around outside with headphones around his neck, pretending to stretch so he could do a hands-in-the-air DJ pose and humming the main riff,” he explained. “I picked up a snippet of it and started humming it myself, that was when he followed me into the toilet.”

Mr. Brown claims that Van Dyk followed him into the toilet claiming “I wrote that track you’re humming, it’s me – DJ Paul Van Dyk” all while urinating forcefully and loudly and maintaining unbroken eye contact.

“In the end I couldn’t relax enough to pee so just told him I was a big fan and asked for an autograph so he’d leave me alone,” he added.

Police were eventually called to the shopping centre after Mr. Van Dyk stole a marker from a stationary store and etched a drawing of his own face onto his chest. Witnesses claim the police arrived to find Mr. Van Dyk running through the shopping centre car park screaming his own name at the sky and sobbing.

“We eventually got him in handcuffs and asked him his name,” explained arresting police office Dale Chambers. “But instead of telling us who he was he just smiled back, asked ‘don’t you recognise me?’, started doing air piano and humming.”

“We couldn’t get anything else out of him other than the admittedly catchy melody,” he concluded. “Eventually we had no choice but to Shazam the track in the hopes that it would lead us to him, thankfully once we did this a pic of the man appeared on the screen with the title of the track.”

“I’ll never forget what Paul Van Dyk looks like again,” he added. “Or that he wrote that track that goes “dum, dum da dum da dum, dum dum, dum, da dum da dum….”