NJ Trooper Wasn’t Prepared to Meet the Man He Pulled Over

Putting it All Together

In Patterson’s time on patrol he had not met anyone from the force, current or retired. Neither had he met anyone from Piscataway.

Here he was standing with a retired officer whose beat was his hometown, hearing a story that happened on his very street, the street where he was born and raised. The story was very familiar to Patterson.

Putting it All Together

He himself was born in 1991, on Poe Street, in his own strange circumstances. He looked at the retired officer and wondered if their stories were connected, the infringement ticket long forgotten. There was only one thing left to ask.