Thursday, Nov 12: More on the Blackmer Street Standoff

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And again, let me give you a little bit of an update to what Mike Roberts had for you in the news regarding that incident that happened on Blackmer Street last night. The suspect is deceased, fired at police, not once but twice. Police fired back both times. So the first time when they attempted to, a detective attempted to pull him over when he was in his vehicle, the suspect failed to stop for police, but then later stopped and fired at the detective. The detective fired back. The suspect then drove to a residence on Blackmore Street. Fled from the vehicle, leaving a child behind, which means he had a child in the car while engaging in gunfire with police. And he left the child in the vehicle, ran into a residence on Blackmore Street. Police set up a perimeter. They cleared the area of any residents. And then the suspect fired again from an upper floor at police. And a state police trooper fired back. They called in the SWAT team. They called in crisis negotiators. And then heard a gunshot come from inside the building. When they could not make contact with the suspect again after that gunshot, a drone was sent in by the Semlec tactical team, the SWAT team. They sent in a drone where they discovered that the suspect was deceased. So that's what we know so far. No identity has been released yet. That'll come from the DA's office probably at some point this morning, along with perhaps any outstanding charges or anything that might have been the reason why he ran from police in the first place. But that's about all we know right now. 508-996-0500. Good morning, you're on WBSM. Can I have 30 seconds? I guess. Okay. The reason I'm bringing up Linda Morad more than anybody else is because she applied for a position that get paid by the city after she owed the money. That's the only reason. Okay, so I mean, so you can understand that, right? I do understand that, yes. Okay. All right. Now, my next thing I want to say to you is the other day, two days ago, I called in and we had a little Disagreement and we got a little real hot. I want to ask you a question. Do you really think I'm a buffoon? No, I thought you were being a buffoon. Yeah, but you actually believe that I'm uneducated. That's a dictionary. I don't know your education level, but I have no reason to suspect that in a normal conversation you come across as an educated person. But sometimes you bring up things that make me say, how can you think that? And that was one of those cases. Why don't you do the same thing when you have city councilors up there, where they bring up stuff like I do. And even the mayor, when he says stuff, he was comparing on a small scale what, yesterday when he was on with Chris out at the museum, he brought up Trump up and he said about Trump what he was doing was wrong. And he's got the same thing on a smaller scale. Why don't you call them guys buffoons? Acting like buffoons. That's all. But I just wanted to clarify why Linda Morag is the thing. But it's amazing how I can find out and nobody else can. Okay. Thank you, Tim. All right. That's Gilly R. Morrow. We have, let's see. I'm just trying to look here to see. All right. We have a couple of other stories I want to point your attention to at WBSM.com. And on the WBSM app, this one story I saw was getting a lot of attention. This comes from Michaela Johnson over at Fun 107, part of the MGM show over there. But a 13-year-old boy got a chance to work out with Gronk. And while I was at the dentist's office, I had other news outlets blowing up my phone, looking to speak to this kid. So I guess this is a pretty, I don't know, is it an exclusive story? I'm not sure. But you can check that out at WBSM.com and on the WBSM app. But Barry also had an article yesterday, too, that I wanted to point your attention to, where Governor Healey, as well as the other New England governors, are all appealing to the federal government for more heating assistance this winter. And that shows not only, you know, you can say what you want about Massachusetts and its energy policies and the governor's energy policies and the extra attached fees that you're paying for some of these climate initiatives. But that's not happening all across New England. That's not happening in every state, but all of these governors are looking for help and they're looking for help because it's costing more, especially with this war going on and the heating prices being what they are as a result of that. And yes, gas prices have come down a little bit in the last few weeks, actually quite a bit in the last few weeks. But as this continues to be an ongoing conflict, prices could soar again at any time based on what happens day to day in that conflict. So. If the war is going to be ongoing, there's the risk that home heating oil could be even more than it is now, or even more than it's been in recent months during the winter months. And so they're looking for more assistance to be able to help people to help offset that. And I haven't looked at the predictions for the winter weather. I try to avoid that because if they say it's going to be a very snowy winter, I just get perpetually angry because I hate snow. So I try to ignore it. But if it is going to be an exceptionally cold winter, We could really be in for it when it comes to paying these heating bills. And I think best we can hope for is to have a warm, mild winter, but that's still not going to save you money. I mean, it won't be as bad as it could have been, but you're still going to be paying more because you're still going to need to have the heat on. I had an incident yesterday where I woke up yesterday morning, went to go take a shower before work, and what I do is I shave before I go into the shower, turned on the sink to shave No hot water. Let me check the shower. Turn the shower on. No hot water. This had only happened one time before, and that's when I first moved into the apartment when the hot water heater blew. Go down into the basement. Sure enough, my hot water heater is leaking all over the place. So I turn off the water to it, let the landlord know. Thankfully, he got it replaced by the time I got home. But before I even bothered to go downstairs and check the water heater, I said, well, let me make sure the gas is working. And I turned on my heat, my gas heater, you know, those apartment heaters. I turned that on just enough to make sure that the flame came on and that there was actually gas going to it. And I thought to myself, man, I just turned that on when I was trying to hold it off till Thanksgiving. Now, it was only for a couple seconds to check, but I turned it on. And I said, I bet you, just from that one little second, my bill's probably going to go up 25 bucks just for turning it on to check. My gas bill has been probably, I don't know, anywhere between $15 to $30 a month. I don't do laundry. In my apartment, I don't have the means to do laundry. The only time I use hot water is for washing dishes, for taking a shower. So I'm going to be able to see. I'm going to be able to see how much that might have jumped up just from turning it on for those couple of seconds, because I'm hoping to make it, I mean, my bill cycle ends the 15th, so I'm going to make it to at least that without having turned it on. So I'll be able to see. I want to see how much they jumped me up just for turning that on. 508-996-0500. I also think that those are the least, I shouldn't say the least efficient way to heat a place, the second least efficient. The least efficient was what I had in the first place I had when I moved out on my own, which was an in-the-floor furnace. Do not recommend those at all, especially if you have a one-year-old crawling around on the floor. 508-996-0500. You're next on WBSN. Hi, Tim. Morning. Good morning. Yeah, so I was paying $50 a month all through the summer for heat that I wasn't using. I called them up, cussed them out. I said, what are you people, crazy? Because there's always that supply charge, which used to be $14, $13, something like that. Very, very minimal. Yeah, and now it's $50. So when I called them and cussed them out and everything, I said, you're crazy and all this. The next slide. Two months of bills was like $40. So, like, there is play for them. There's room. There's wiggle room, which still was outrageous. So I was, like, damned if I do, damned if I don't. So I put my heat on. I don't care. I put it on because, you know what, they're just going to assume I'm using it. They're just going to. I do think one thing that people make the mistake of thinking is they think if I have the heat on now when I don't really need it, when I could just get through it, it's going to cost me more money. But if you set it properly and you have it right, like, so let's just say you set it for, you know, 68 degrees. I'm just going to use that number. Then it's only going to come on when it drops below 68 degrees. So during the day when it's 68 degrees, you're not going to be burning heat. So I think people overestimate how much it's going to run at this time of year, but we're going to get to the point where we're going to need it on 24-7 soon enough. Right. Well, you know, that's exactly how I am with this particular heater. I always set the whole unit at 68. Perfect for me. It's a little chilly sometimes, but that's okay. You know, just put the robe on, put the winter robe on. But yeah, nope. And you're right. It's just. It stays like that. It won't kick in. It's not going to run all day and all that there, no. So, but yeah, yeah, I'll probably have to push it up to 70 when it gets really cold. But yeah, so I figure I'm going to get charged for it anyway, so I might as well be comfortable. Yeah, be warm. That's the important part. It's not worth it. Not worth it if you're cold and you get sick and all that stuff, so. Well, you get miserable. It's just miserable. I love to, I'm not a person that wakes up grumpy or mean or anything like that, you know? I'm usually really happy. But when you're cold, you're miserable. Who wants to wake up like that? Well, one thing I would recommend is anybody who lives on a budget, You should talk to the utility providers and see if getting on the plan that they do where you pay the same rate every month. So you might only use $25 worth of gas in the summertime, but they'll still charge you $75. But then when you get into the winter months, instead of paying $250, you're still only paying $75. So for people who live on a budget, those budgeted plans, I think, do work out. I've been on them before because I did a... I was on the automatic withdrawal plan. So just to remember to pay the bill. So when I first converted from my old landlord, converted me from oil to gas when I lived in Wareham. And so I went on to the gas plan. I said, well, why don't I do this automatic payment thing? And they said, well, if you want to do automatic payment, we can set you up after one year when we know what your usage will be. We can set you up on this monthly. Plan where you pay whatever the average is every month. So I did that for the first couple of years. And then when it was just me there, I didn't have the heat on as much anymore. So I just got off that plan. I think my stepbrother was on some kind of plan like that. And the money rolled over into the summer or something. But I'm not sure how that worked out for him, honestly. I can't remember. But yeah, I know they have like, I'm going to do something this year. I'm sure of it. You know what I mean? Because, yeah, this is a lot of stuff. So I don't know, we'll see, but I know one thing, I don't, like, fuel assistance, I don't think I can get on that, because you can't have money, you can't have money in your savings account. No, that has nothing to do with it, it's based solely on income. Really? Yep, I had somebody on just a couple weeks ago from the program who explained that it's all income-based. Oh, I didn't know that. Yep, it has nothing to do with your assets. Oh. Wait, no, I did hear that show. And she said that, yeah. But I think when she said assets, I don't think she meant like savings though. It's only based on your income. Oh, okay. Well, you know what? So I might have to do that this year. Well, I'd like to do it. Right, exactly. I'd like to do that. But yeah, so. Anyways, that's all I've got. Yesterday's show with Chris, that was such a beautiful show. I thought they did a fantastic job, especially when you consider that you've got to balance being able to talk about these things, but also the solemnness of the day. I thought they did a great job. Oh, my gosh, yeah. No, exactly. I mean, it was just perfection. And I'm glad they were able to get the Bells of Peace ceremony into the broadcast, too, because when we were talking about it the day before, they said that happens right at 11. I was like, oh, we'll be in the news break. But they were able to make it work so that it happened on the air. I was on hold when they did that. And then I started to cry. And then when I got through to Chris, I didn't cry on the air. I just, yeah, I was crying when I got, well, I actually even said to Chris, I said, geez, this isn't good. I'm crying. now I finally get off from hold. But yeah, no, it was a great show. Yeah, that made me cry. But yeah, anyways, there you go. You have a good day. You too. Bye-bye. All right. I got to get a break in here. But while we're talking about these energy prices, if you want to try to avoid paying higher prices, well, the thing you got to do is get your heating system to be as efficient as possible. And many of us out there, myself included, we have heating systems that aren't as efficient as they could be, that are old and outdated. And if you are looking to upgrade your heating system, it could cost you nothing. Because the MassSave program offers these great rebates. So if you heat your home through oil, propane, electric, anything that's not gas, you can get a free mini split. And if you heat in some of these apartments that are using these old gas furnaces, one mini split is all they really need. If you're a gas customer, though, you can get up to $16,000 off a heat pump. But these rebates are only guaranteed through this year. C2S Energy is your local expert in handling, and by the way, C2S Energy is out there working pretty much around the clock to get people these systems upgraded before the cold winter comes in and making sure that they get those rebates, which by the way, you don't even have to worry about because they just take it off the top. But I was on my way here this morning, C2S truck in front of me, already going to get to work that early. So if you want to call them and find out more and get a free estimate, 774-961-6810, 774-961-6810, or visit them online at c2senergy.com. Got to get a break in here. When we come back, we'll get the news. After the news, we'll have today's edition of the Gen X Files coming your way in just a little bit. 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Send us app chat messages and open line voicemails using the WBSM app. The search continues following a New York building collapse, the Senate scheduling votes ahead of January, and a pet emu on the loose in New Jersey. The Cottage Street Motors WBSM Newsroom. This is WBSM News. Rescue efforts continue in Brooklyn following a deadly building collapse. A three-story building in Flatbush toppled into an open construction site around 4 p.m. on Wednesday. Then they started pulling out children from the building, those two children that was rushed into the ambulance. They were unconscious, haven't seen any blood or anything, but yeah, they were hurt. Officials say at least one person is dead and 12 people are injured, with six of those critical. Public advocate Jumaane Williams said some residents were raising concerns about construction for a new eight-story residential building in the plot next to the collapsed building. In New York, I'm Lizzy Radabali. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth received a reprimand by the Army Sentinel at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier for breaking decorum yesterday. Video shows Hegseth and some of his staff taking a picture near the tomb. During the Veterans Day ceremony, the Sentinel can be heard saying all visitors will maintain an atmosphere of silence and respect at all times. It comes after House Republicans voted to block the impeachment of Hegseth earlier in the week. Republicans are racing to confirm as many of President Trump's nominees before Democrats take power next year. The Senate Health Committee scheduled a key vote for Dr. Heidi Overton to serve as commissioner of the FDA, despite her path forward being uncertain. Committee Chairman Bill Cassidy of Louisiana is the single Republican vote majority on the panel and has said that he's undecided on her nomination. Cassidy previously criticized Overton's involvement in the Trump administration's efforts to roll back childhood vaccination, calling it, quote, almost disqualifying. Somebody's emu is running loose around New Jersey. State Park Police officers say the flightless bird has been popping up around Brendan Byrne State Forest, where a man tells NJ.com he spotted the emu while riding a bike Monday afternoon. New Jersey Environmental Protection officials say Park Police officers saw it, too, but were not able to catch her. And they know it's a her because the owner tells NJ.com she broke loose from his home's property near the park on Monday, and he's been out ever since searching for Sweet Pea, which is what he named her. Now, officers are cautioning people, though. Sweet Pea may not be so sweet if frightened or feeling chased, so telling everyone... Just call police if an emu runs by. I'm Levon Putney. Former NFL coach and ESPN analyst Rex Ryan facing multiple charges after allegedly running over the feet of two pedestrians in Nashville. Police there say Ryan was making a right turn in his pickup truck when he allegedly struck the two victims who later confronted him at a red light. The pedestrians told police Ryan drove away after an argument. WBSM Sports. Celtics 98, Toronto 93. The Seas are off until Sunday. And the Bruins host the Canadiens tonight at 7 o'clock. And now, your WPRI 12 forecast. Brought to you by Family Heating and Cooling in Westport. We'll see increasing clouds with some showers developing by late afternoon around the south coast. High temperatures will be around 56 degrees today. Rainy, breezy tonight. Late night lows getting down to around 40 degrees. Some of that rain could be heavy overnight. Rainy, windy for tomorrow with high temperatures around 45 degrees. Winds from the northeast and north could be gusting to 30 miles an hour. It looks like we'll be dry and chilly for the upcoming weekend with the sunshine returning. I'm Mike Roberts, WBSM News. Stay up to date with New Bedford's news talk station, WBSM, and get breaking news alerts and all of our content on the WBSM app. This WBSM News update is brought to you by Stevie's Wine and Spirits. Look for the purple dot to try before you buy. Only at Stevie's Wine and Spirits in Fairhaven. Prepare and freeze your meals in advance, take the phone off the hook, and don't even bother getting dressed. Because this Sunday is Pleasant Valley Sunday, and you're not going anywhere until you've seen all 45 Monkees episodes in a row. Monkees All Day Sunday. Monkees, Monkees, Nothing But Monkees, and Nowhere But MTV. So join us couch potatoes on Sunday. Not just stepping stones, swarming. Let's take a look at some of the events that mattered most to 80s and 90s kids on this date, starting with celebrity birthdays. It's inconceivable that Wallace Shawn from the Princess Bride celebrates his 83rd birthday today. Legendary sports announcer Al Michaels still believes in miracles at the age of 82. Rocker Neil Young turns 81. Megan Mullally of Will and Grace fame is 68. Five-time Olympic gymnastics gold medalist Nadia Comaneci is 65. He is 65. Dave Ellefson of Megadeth 62, former MLB slugger Sammy Sosa, 58, former figure skater and 90s controversy queen Tonya Harding turns 56, Angela Watson, who played Karen on Step by Step in the 90s, she's 51, singer Tevin Campbell is 50, actor Ryan Gosling, 46, and actress Anne Hathaway, 41, and former NBA MVP Russell Westbrook celebrates his 38th birthday today. In 1966, the Monkees' debut album started a 13-week run at number one on the U.S. album chart, selling over 3 million copies in three months, of course. Later became a Gen X phenomenon when they premiered on MTV for their 20th anniversary. In 1977, the Sex Pistols topped the U.K. chart with their sole album, Never Mind the Bollocks, here's the Sex Pistols. In 1981, Mission STS-2, utilizing the space shuttle Columbia, marked the first time a manned spacecraft was launched into space twice. Also in 1981, the first balloon crossing of the Pacific was completed. The Double Eagle 5 launched from Nagashima, Japan on November 10th, 1981. In 1983, Lionel Richie hit number one on the charts with All Night Long, a song which had some Swahili lyrics that were actually made up words. In 1984, with Chic frontman Nile Rodgers producing, Madonna released her second studio album, Like a Virgin, her first number one on the U.S. albums chart, but definitely not her last. In 1988, Escape Club was number one on the charts with Wild Wild West, not to be confused with the Will Smith song that came out from the movie about 10 years later. Also in 1988, U2 started a six-week run at number one on the U.S. album chart with their sixth studio album, Rattle and Hum, although it was half live, half studio, which went on to sell over 14 million copies. Music In 1990, it was the body bag game. After Eagles coach Buddy Ryan threatened beating the Redskins so badly, quote, they'll have to be carted off in body bags, the Eagles defense scored three touchdowns, winning 28-14, knocking eight Redskins out of the game. In 1993, the first Ultimate Fighting Championship event, UFC 1, was held in Denver, Colorado. In 1997, the Spice Girls' sophomore album, Spice World, debuted at number one in their home country of the U.K., released at the height of Spice Mania. The LP featured such hits as Spice Up Your Life, Stop, Viva Forever, and Too Much, and served as the soundtrack to the film of the same name, which arrived in theaters that December. Great role for Meatloaf in that as the bus driver. Also in 1997, Ramsey Yousef was found guilty of masterminding the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. In 1999, Kevin Smith's fantasy comedy Dogma premiered. Remember that? That was the one that had Alanis Morissette playing God. Like, literally, she was God in that movie. In 2000, Destiny's Child began an 11-week run atop the Billboard Hot 100 with Independent Woman Part 1. The hit was recorded for the soundtrack to Charlie's Angels, a film adaptation of the popular 70s TV series. In 2001, Ringo Starr, Paul McCartney, and George Harrison met at a hotel in New York City. It took place just two weeks before Harrison passed away from cancer and marked the final time that all three surviving Beatles spent time together. In 2004, a jury in Redwood City, California convicted Scott Peterson of murdering his pregnant wife Laci and dumping her body in San Francisco Bay. Also on this date in 2004, Gwen Stefani, who had been with her band, no doubt, since 1986, issued her first solo album, Love Angel Music Baby, with the number one hit, Hollaback Girl. That song was bananas, B-A-N-A-N-A-S. In 2008, Beyonce released her third studio album, I Am Sasha Fierce, debuting at number one on the U.S. Billboard chart. Her third consecutive number one solo album was marketed with the release of several singles, including If I Were a Boy and Single Ladies Put a Ring on It, both of which charted high internationally as well. And in 2016, Robbie Williams broke the record for the most number one albums by a British solo artist. The singer's latest album at that time, The Heavy Entertainment Show, debuted at number one on that week's chart. It was his 12th album to reach the summit and pushed him ahead of David Bowie, who had 11 number one albums to his name. That's the Gen X Files for November 12, 2026. All right, let's take a phone call here, 508-996-0500. You're next on WBSM. Good morning, Mr. Weisberg. Good morning. You think you can handle me today without, you know, you're not wearing tight underwear or anything. I can never handle you, but that's all right. I'll try anyway. I'm not going to talk about what I talked about yesterday because you can't handle that too good. So I'll let that go for now. It's not over. No, Bob, but yeah. Well, just next time make sure you come with the proper information and we'll be fine. But go ahead. Well, everything I say is proper. Now, today I heard on your news, because I'm getting a lot of news from WBSM, you know, my radio is always on. So I heard about the new caravan that's coming over here as soon as this election was over. And the supposed Democrats supposedly took over the House, the Senate. So now the new caravan has already started. They started immediately, they're coming. Now, they're coming in legal, which I don't like. I like the ones that come here legally. But I have a question, people, I don't know who they are, but there must be some people in the government whose job is. To check how much land and space do we have because we're already taking away land from animals because we have bears in your backyard, coyotes on your front porch. So how many more people are we able to fit here? It's a big world and they're all coming. So at some point, the more people that are here... The more we're sooner or later going to die, we're going to need more cemetery space on top of all that. Is anybody studying all that? Because I have a close friend in Westport, and the government is already trying to take part of her land. Her family has been in that house and on that land, they got farmland. It's a big, they own a kind of a big area there. And she did have a farmer live in there with some cows. And sooner or later, she had to tell them no more because she wanted her daughter to build her house there because her daughter grew up. So the family goes on and on, and they're trying to take some of her land already. And their excuse for taking her land is for bicyclists, is that Is that the word? For bicyclists, they want to take some of her land for that road she lives on. For bicycles, people on bicycles, it makes no sense to me. So who is studying the land? And how come I don't hear much about that? We have to draw the line. The ones that are coming, like I said, legally, I'm all about the legal stuff. The ones that are coming illegal, I don't want to mention her name who's allowing and paying for all of it because her name bothers you now. So is there anybody studying this and how come I don't hear anything about that? Well, one thing I do know is that Regular burials are actually becoming less common. More and more people are opting to be cremated. Yes, I understand. Now they've got what we can bury, too, and pop up flowers or something, right? Well, and they're opting not only to be cremated, but they're also putting in their last wishes that their ashes be dispersed, too. So it's not even a matter of having family members have to hold on to those ashes, either. So I don't know, you know, if that's offsetting. The number of people that die versus the number of people that want to be buried, I don't know what those exact correlations are, but I do know that that is something that is of a concern because so many, so part of the thing that I saw something about this recently, but part of it was there were municipalities, and I don't think around here, but this was a national story that I read, municipalities that were reaching out to churches. To see if they could start utilizing their burial grounds, because the churches would quite often have burial grounds that were only reserved for their parishioners. And so then towns were coming to them and saying, like, we need more, we don't have any more room for municipal cemeteries, you know, could we start having people be buried in your cemeteries? And they were allowing that to happen, but they were working out financial deals to make that happen. So either way, that's still something that the governments are having to pay for. And then. We're going to probably have the Democrats making a new law that you're going to have to be cremated. They're going to force us to do that. Like people like me, I want to be buried. I want to be buried. I don't know why you think that that would happen. Why do you think that they would do that? Well, because they're trying to take over everything. They want everything to be their way. Look what they're doing. They're killing the baby. How do you know that cremation is their way? I don't know, but I want to be buried, and we're having so many coming. I just want to know, how can we draw the line? Because now they're taking private property from Americans who have been on certain lands, their whole family. Well, I mean, eminent domain's always been a thing, and it's always been a controversial thing, too. Yeah, but we're going to do it more and more now because there's more people coming. We have animals in our backyard and in our front yard. What are we going to do about it? Now, and the lottery, because I know I'm taking a lot of time, got to talk fast now. I found a new lottery machine at my pharmacy right outside my door here at Walgreens. And I was shocked when I seen it. It had all the betting slips and all. I said, wait, one good thing is I don't have to even get in my car or go anywhere to go to get a ticket. No more, I just open my door, walk outside, walk up the hill, and there it is. But the thing is, we also know that the lottery is also corrupt because... One person alone, again, in New Jersey, got all that last big giant jackpot that came. Something's wrong. We used to have many winners, even if it was just $500 million, not even a billion, and it would be three, four, seven winners. We don't do that no more. We're lucky if there's two winners. So something's definitely wrong. And thank God now that I have changed where I only get a couple of tickets when it really gets high, like 500 million. I don't play like I used to. But that needs to be looked into, because I think the lottery is corrupt. I really do. I may get upset enough to just stop it altogether, which will hurt me, because I really enjoy that. And I do get little teeny wins. It's not a big win, but something to make me feel a little better for the day. Thank you for all the time. I hope somebody mentioned something here, a corrupt lottery, a corrupt government, and corrupt, they want to take our land. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you for the call. All right, we got to take a break here. 508-996-0500. 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And so they don't directly address anybody and say to them, hey, stop doing that. They just make that announcement. That's not unusual, that's not uncommon, but you also would expect that the Secretary of Defense would know that, and they would say to the other people that are with them, like, hey, we're not supposed to, no talking and laughing here. Now, to Pete Higgs' credit, when he was, or his group was chastised here, when they were alerted to these rules, they did say, he did put out a statement saying, thank you to that guard for reminding us, but it happened because they were posing for photos. At the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier on Veterans Day, posing for photos, getting together in group shots and took one and then called some other people over like, no, let's take another one. Like, I don't know. Maybe if you weren't taking group photos, you wouldn't have been called out for being disrespectful. But anyway, 508-996-0500. Got one more break to get in here before the end of the hour. We'll be right back. Late. And because everything's going my way this morning, right after we published that article, the Bristol County District Attorney's Office has released the name of the suspect involved in the shootout last night. He has been identified as 39-year-old Derek Rego of New Bedford. So we'll have more information for you on that when I can get it up there. But we can talk more about it on the other side after the news. Stick around. 508. Prize Picks packs are here. Rip digital packs and get real basketball, football, and Pokemon cards on Prize Picks packs. Available now nationwide. Once you see your pool, you have a choice to sell back instantly for real cash or ship at home. Cash from your sale will immediately be added to your PrizePicks balance. It's just another way to run your game. 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