“The Bob-In has a long history here in the city, there’s no doubt about that,” Massey said. Sometimes, bad blood inside the bar spilled out onto the street, prompting a police response. He said Karter tried “to run a tight ship,” but that sometimes his staff did not monitor the patrons as they should have and sometimes things got out of hand. Massey said troubles at the Bob-In waxed and waned, depending on who was managing the lounge. Waterville Police Chief Joseph Massey, a city police officer for 29 years, doesn’t paint such a rosy picture of the Bob-In. We’ve had our share of problems outside on the street, but we take care of our own inside.” “This place is kind of like a melting pot of America. “I have no need to defend the place, but police don’t come in but once a year,” he said. Karter himself was never implicated in any of the activity and was never arrested. The patron, Michael “Mad Dog” Pedini, was a member of the Outlaws motorcycle club who later was involved in the shooting of a member of the Hell’s Angels in Canaan and went to prison. There was a drug related shooting in the men’s room of the bar in May 2005, a stabbing in 2012 and a cocaine raid in 2009, during which a bartender was arrested along with a bar patron who was taken into custody at his home in Madison. He said while other establishments in Waterville might have more fights, the Bob-In always grabs the most attention because of its reputation. The bar that became synonymous with late night fist fights and topless dancers is like any other bar that caters to working class men and women looking for company, Karter said.
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