Comments on: Reporting My Front Bike Wheel Stolen

By: Aan

Aan — Wed, 19 May 2010 09:28:56 +0000

I’m positively surprised by your experience with police (in Touareg), but I can’t complain also, I am (or was) calling to 158 from time to time to report something and they were helpful

btw. if you have insurance you should report stolen part of bike in your insurance company, “poistenie domacnosti” usually covers stolen bikes from street when they are locked and claim is reported at police

By: Daniel

Daniel — Tue, 18 May 2010 23:06:02 +0000

Dear “Name_not_available” visitor from Slovak Technical University – thanks for the comment and although I deem the possible rules you point to to be completely absurd, I have removed the license plate ID.

As for the bike transportation, the first police car denied any help except recommending to pull the bike body 700+ metres to the police station.

PS: Moreover, I thought you stopped following my blog after the “book cover binding” post, haven’t you?

By: Daniel

Daniel — Tue, 18 May 2010 22:57:52 +0000

I think you could have called 112 from any street (paid) phone for free – of course, if there was any nearby.

I don’t think they will find anything, though. Let’s wait for the camera records, anyway.

By: Name_not_available

Name_not_available — Tue, 18 May 2010 22:57:41 +0000

Are you 100 % sure they are allowed to transport you with your bike?

Because if not, you just “thanked” them in the best possible way by publicizing their license plate (which, together with today date, makes it pretty easy for any possible superiors to identify them).

(And if you think it is triviality – similar cases happened on railway for example. One loco driver took old man who he almost run over in woods on a ride to next station. The old man afterwards wrote letter to the railway HQ thanking the loco driver. Result: monthly bonuses deduced because of violation of regulations saying no foreign persons in the cab.

Also, in previous issue of 112 show, policemen refused to take two attacked boys even a ONE street down (they were afraid of attackers), saying they cannot (of course it can be interpreted both as they are not allowed to or they do not want to).)

By: JuRoot

JuRoot — Tue, 18 May 2010 22:47:11 +0000

You are the lucky one. Have similiar experience with stolen parts of bike, but story ends in one point: my mobile provider had a technical problem, so I wasn’t able to call any emergency line (city / state police or even “universal” 112). And because it happend on Sunday, operator on helpdesk gave me one opinion: to wait for technician, which (surprise) doesn’t work on weekends. Rather don’t thinking about what could happend, if…