LEE Seungho

Huom! Jääkärinkatu

I have found this flag poll this evening coming home from supermarket. As you can see the poll is coming off from the holder, and it looked dangerous to me as there are cars right below it, and more importantly there are people walking by. I called the maintenence company, Kotikadun Kiinteistöpalvelu Oy, and the guy doesn’t speak English, nor do I speak good Finnish, and therefore I ask an old lady to call them on my behalf and she does. She says the guys said that it’s not their fault, but the snow cleaning company did it two months ago, and although they have been getting claims from this building’s tenants–FYI, I do not live in this building–they have no intention to fix it.

The flag poll

Close-up, does this look dangerous only to me?

Sounds terrible, and I call the police, and I realize that I have the old number–10022, and the machine do not redirect me automatically to 112, but inform that the number has changed to 112 and hang up on me. I become more frustrated, call 112 and tell the police that the poll looks dangerous, the police tells me that I have to call the maintenance company, I tell her that the company doesn’t give a shXX and ask her to force the company to do it or do something about this poll, then she redirect me to the Central Police which I do not know what it is, and they don’t answer the phone for five minutes. I think they will realize that this is their responsibility when somebody will actually be hit by the poll.

The phone number of the maintenance company.

Update: I went down to the fitness club on the same street, the clerk agreed with me and took out a ladder, and we went to fix the problem. The ladder is not nearly tall enough, and the poll is really really heavy so no ordinary people with ordinary ladder can do this. The clerk says she will call the firestation. No change yet, as of 23:46 April 20, 2011. It’s quite windy nowadays, and I am worried.

Update II: Now, after few weeks, the poll is back to where it is supposed to be. I guess nobody got hurted as I have not seen any of that on newspaper. Thank god.