Our Friends...the Policie

Last Friday night Chelsa, Sara and I were driving home from practice like any other night when the unthinkable happened - we blew out our front tire. We were almost home, on the cobble stone streets of Prague when we heard this loud bang! Sara was driving and turned off at the next possible option which was the street leading into the T-Mobile Center where the Sparta Praha men’s professional hockey team play. So we hopped out and thought...humm...what are we going to do? I personally have never had experience changing a flat tire before but thankfully Sara has. So she got out and was already in the trunk about to get out the spare tire when low and behold our friends the police show up. They pulled up beside us and basically said that we were not allowed to park there. Well no kiddn’. Chelsa asked if they spoke English and of course they didn’t, but could see from the flat tire in the front why we were there. Amazingly enough they got out of their little police van and proceeded to change the tire for us. What nice gentlemen! I was truly amazed with this act of kindness. The one poor guy was reefing on the bolt for like 15min and was telling us that we were going to have to phone a tow truck who would be able to get the bolt off for us. Of course we had our agent on the phone at this time who was translating for us. But thankfully he got it off and he could change the tire. The situation was quite funny as we were just standing around doing nothing and were wondering if we should pay them as a thank you or something like that. Michael our agent said not to and was like “see not all police are corrupt here”. Thankfully that night we got to see the kinder side of the police!



I apologize that this picture is not very clear, but Sara just took a quick picture with her camera phone of the police van. Would have liked to take more but thought they might not appreciate it.