PORT ST. LUCIE — A man accused of hanging out near some Dumpsters had a question for investigators.

“What is a name?”

Rather than the internal musing of a graduate student in philosophy, it was a question posed Sept. 14 to a St. Lucie County sheriff’s deputy.

John Cameron, 30, made the query after a deputy went to an address in the 7600 block of South U.S. 1 regarding a shirtless man “hanging out by the Dumpsters, yelling at himself and bothering other customers,” an arrest affidavit states.

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The man, later identified as Cameron, told deputies he didn’t want to be bothered.

He said he lived down the road. When asked for his name, he paused and started walking away.

A deputy said he’d buy the man some food and beverage if he provided his name. The man said he was Edward Elrick, but research into that turned up nothing, the affidavit states.

“I asked him for his name again, and he advised that he had no name and then asked me, ‘what is a name?’” the affidavit states.

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A similar question famously was asked by Juliet Capulet of Romeo Montague in the William Shakespeare play, “Romeo and Juliet.”

Romeo and Juliet are in love, but they are from warring families.

Juliet states: “What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other word would smell as sweet.”

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Juliet tells Romeo that a name doesn’t mean anything. She asks what is in a name, noting a rose would smell just as sweet if it were called something else.

In the end, Romeo and Juliet both die by suicide, an event referenced in Blue Oyster Cult’s 1976 song, “(Don’t Fear) The Reaper.”

Meanwhile, deputies determined Cameron’s name at the jail.

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Cameron, of Port St. Lucie, was arrested on charges of providing a false name to a law enforcement officer and resisting an officer/obstructing without violence.