I used to work city maintenance. One day I had to go around all the bridges in my city with bolt cutters cutting all these love locks off. Apparently all the extra weight affects the structural capacity.
1:31 "with the right tools forever isn't quite as long as it used to be" "it's just your turn" Both statements represent the same deep message. The world of temporary will always remain temporary :((
Please, don't put locks on the bridges. It's terrible habit and it damages those brisges. Prague and Paris (and other cities) have lot of troubles with this and it cost a lot of money to remove locks and repair damages to the railings.
I realise that having the lock welded shut is a romantic gesture but that wasn't the immediate thought that came to mind. Maybe it's a product of having watched all of the April fools videos but I can't help but think that a welded shut lock seems more like unfortunate innuendo suggesting of trouble in LPL paradise.... Has LPL ever picked a chastity belt on this channel? 😉
Big issue here in Boston and in Paris with this. The weight of 10,000 locks can threaten the structural integrity of the bridges that become super popular for this practice.
My ambition in life is to become a master locksmith and travel the world unlocking love locks and throwing it back in the faces of the twats that put it there.
I'm going to create a lock he can't open. Once locked it will release thermite, just enough to weld it shut. (HE LITERALLY SAID WELD IT SHUT AS I WAS TYPING WELD IT SHUT)
Maybe it is, maybe it isn’t. They use bolt cutters instead of picking the locks to remove “love locks” in highly popular locations for this activity. Primarily because the combined weight of thousands of locks can degrade structural integrity over time.
This made my day, a beautiful video. Especially since this cretinous idea of the love lock is wearing down bridges for the weight of those cursed things combined. I saw it in Rome (where they removed them by force, har har) and I saw it in Hamburg. I hope they outlaw this useless tradition.
Anything that can be closed, can also be opened and vice versa. It's just question of how much effort are you willing to put towards opening / closing something.