A 47-year-old native of the The Bronx stopped by police in a high-crime area of Springfield, Massachusetts for driving with illegally attached license plates bore unmistakeable marks of pernicious outside influence.
Police say the man had New York Yankees tattoos on his neck and right hand and a chrome-colored .357 Magnum with a blue grip "with Yankees logos imprinted on both sides," according to MassLive.com.
Stone walls in New England originated with colonial farmers needing to move stones from plow fields and wanting to create a fence at the same time, but construction accelerated and improved in the early 1800s with the importing of merino sheep from Spain.
Wool from the prodigious sheep stocked the industrial-revolution mills of New England and gave subsistence farmers a valuable commodity — but fences were needed to hem them in.
