The Hamlet Chronicles
By Wally EdgeAdd one more item to the list of Hamlet Goore's foibles -- he must have a bad sense of direction. When the Attorney General's live-in boyfriend found himself in need of a Motor Vehicles Commission office to straighten out a mess with his drivers license and car registration, he travelled miles out of his way to go to Elizabeth.
The MVC has offices in North Bergen, where Goore lives, and also in Irvington, where he works. If Goore, for some reason, didn't want to use the local office in North Bergen (located 1.37 miles from his home), the MVC has seven offices closer to his home than Elizabeth: Jersey City, Lodi, Englewood, Wallington, Newark, East Orange, Bayonne. If Goore was going during his lunch hour (he works for the Township of Irvington), and didn't (for some reason) want to use the local office located 1/2 mile from his office, he could have made it to East Orange, Newark or Sprinfield faster than Elizabeth.
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I said it before and I'll say it agan "Hamlet should get his ass
I said it before and I'll say it agan "Hamlet should get his ass kicked just for being named Hamlet".
He wasn't going during his lunch hour, unless he eats before 11
He wasn't going during his lunch hour, unless he eats before 11 am, though it is pretty obvious you posited that possibility just to accentuate the logical absurdity of him going to the Elizabeth MVC agency. But logic does not inform all our decisions . . . for example, when you know someone!
Dear Hamlet was going there because his girlfriend, Zulima Farber, called Angel Estrada, her pal, who was also the agent in Elizabeth, to please take care of Hamlet's many urgent needs!
After all, the Oldsmobile van was all packed for the holiday weekend, bicycles, suitcases, "confidential" state documents . . . but it had no current registration. And, Hamlet had a suspension posted at MVC for his driver's license.
Several stories have even indicated the van was not currently insured! She told that to the New York Times when they first interviewed her in early July, just after the story broke.
Do you seriously believe Zulima wanted to take the chance that either she or Hamlet might get pulled over while headed off to LBI -- or wherever they were headed -- or while coming back to their Shore bungalow from dinner & cocktails?
Plus, Zulima and Hamlet both knew that the Municipal Judge in Fairview was going to be getting some unusual paperwork from a Fairview police officer, requesting that the judge void a ticket or two, ones that that the officer had just written!
You think it did not cross their minds that the Municipal judge would likely do a computer "look-up" on the MVC system to determine if he should grant the officer's motion? Suppose he got the officer's paperwork that Friday afternoon and decided to take care of that strange request before the holiday weekend?
"What's this?" the judge would have asked. "He's suspended and there is no current registration for the vehicle! What the . . .?
No, they knew they needed a friend to insure that all that needed to be done, would be done that day.
And Angel did not work in North Bergen, or Lodi, or Newark, or any of the other locations. Angel "I'll hold your hand while you wait in line, Hamlet" Estrada was located in Elizabeth.
And so, they decided, "Elizabeth it is!"