Rest In Pieces
Hartford, CT
According to Middletown police, without any apparent provocation, on June 13 Cole Bedell, 45, allegedly threw a chunk of pavement at an excavator on Mill Street. A nearby police officer who happened to be working at the site attempted to restrain Bedell, who then went on to allegedly attack the officer. Bedell’s mission? When arrested, he reportedly yelled, ¨You´re digging up an Indian site, and you´re all going to Hell for it.¨ Bedell was charged with breach of peace and criminal assault.
Found in the Hartford Advocate
June 28th, 2006 at 1:08 am
Criminal assault?!?! For throwing a hunk of asphalt at an excavator? Was the operator (10 feet up, and behind glass) in any sort of real danger? The machine certainly wasn’t and if it was it would be a different charge. The part that really doesn’t pass the “sniff test” is “A nearby police officer who happened to be working at the site”. Why would an officer “happen” to be working there if this guy hadn’t already raised objections? Construction sites are not notorious for criminal activity when the crew is working. This kinda sinks the “without any apparent provocation” theory, too. God bless people who don’t have enough imagination to question authority (especially when there’s obviously much more to the story).
June 28th, 2006 at 7:13 am
I’m going to guess that the assault charge was for attacking the officer and the disturbing the peace charge was for throwing the asphalt. As for the officer ‘happening’ to being there in the first place, its not uncommon to see a police presence in a work zone for traffic enforcement purposes.
June 28th, 2006 at 8:33 am
How did he know it was an indian burial site? Sounds like he may have been hitting the peace pipe a little too often.
June 28th, 2006 at 8:34 am
How did he know it was an indian burial site? Sounds like he may have been hitting the peace pipe a little too often.
June 28th, 2006 at 8:35 am
sorry about the double post……been one of those days:)
June 28th, 2006 at 8:51 am
Sounds like he might have been trying to cement a relationship with the excavator operator.
June 28th, 2006 at 8:52 am
So, mhol, would you consider the 1st post a pre-post and the latter a post-post?
June 28th, 2006 at 9:21 am
I think the first post is the true post and the second post is the sequel.
June 28th, 2006 at 9:27 am
update on the story revealed…it was the ass fault. All was resolved and the burial site was soon back to it’s normalacy of dead heads. The provocator? he was las seen at the archealogical site on Millbrook drive helping remove his bone from one of the female students.
June 28th, 2006 at 9:42 am
Good one, Robo! ^5
June 28th, 2006 at 11:09 am
Interesting that the duscussion assumes it was a burial site when the article only says it was an Indian site. No mention of burials is made at all. From that perspective, isn’t all land in this country an Indian site of some sort?
June 28th, 2006 at 4:47 pm
I always hated it when we were digging and found bones of any kind. There was always some scientist who would want to shut your project down and study things for about 10 years. We used to find spear points, arrow heads, and lots of different animal bones at different times. I about had a heart attack one day when marble engraved tomb stones started showing up in the spill dirt. Turned out that a monumnet engraving company sold marble scraps and misprints for fill materials.
June 28th, 2006 at 8:04 pm
Yea, Randy, I always hate it when the bones I’ve buried get found, too. Never had any scientists want to study the site, though. Unless you consider CSI teams scientists…………
June 28th, 2006 at 8:16 pm
FUNNY!!!!!!!!! SLY!
June 29th, 2006 at 8:32 am
Everyting I do is a post post somedays Gdfunkrr