There was another story along those lines; he was doing a signing and a GC or Sam Ash had a bunch of his wahs for people to have signed, I can’t remember the details, but there was confusion over the wahs in regards to people needing to buy them or not, like the kid the story is about won a contest or something and didn’t think he had to pay for the wah. So he gets it signed by Dime and tries to leave, the staff stopped him and tried making him pay, the kid’s dad was broke and was going back and forth with the staff regarding the confusion aspect, Dime heard it, got pissed off, walked over and put the wah in the kid’s hand and said something like “They’re my fucking pedals, bro, and you’re giving this guy a hard time? What the fuck?” then told the kid to go home and enjoy it.
I tried finding the story but came up empty, I know I read it not too long ago, I think the kid it happened to was telling it. Such a good fucking dude.