Reporters Notebook (Gettysburg Times: 02/02/08): "Take me home, Jersey roads"

I was visiting some friends this weekend, and during my travels in the sweet land of New Jersey, a cop pulled me over.
“Son,” the State Trooper said as he approached my window, “do you know why I stopped you.”
Not really.
“You turned when the light was red,” the officer explained.
There must be some mistake, I thought.
“No one was coming,” I argued, “and I turned right. There was no sign saying I couldn’t turn on red.”
The officer tilted his sunglasses and raised his eyebrows.
“You’re not from around here, are you?” he asked.
Apparently, you can’t turn right at a red light in Jersey.
I’m a law-breaker.
~ Scot Andrew Pitzer