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    Part of the parapet of the world famous Pont Des Arts bridge in Paris has collapsed under the weight of the growing number of locks that had been attached. Couples write their initials on the so-called 'lovelocks', and attach them to the bridge as a sign of their love.
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Komentáře • 392

  • @billhuang8849
    @billhuang8849 Před 9 lety +1691

    i bet the couples are all divorced now

  • @godexists2177
    @godexists2177 Před 10 lety +870

    melt them into a big heart

    • @blazednlovinit
      @blazednlovinit Před 10 lety +27

      that's really lovely mate, they should do that :D

    • @usmanikhlaq6464
      @usmanikhlaq6464 Před 10 lety +28

      That's a good idea. It would a major tourist attraction too!

    • @onlinenow1
      @onlinenow1 Před 10 lety +16

      I think they should do a statue but something more original than a big heart, for Paris i think that might be a bit unoriginal and dull, they could make something much more beautiful.

    • @yobrotherofut
      @yobrotherofut Před 10 lety +3

      Its still gonna weigh the same and thats the problem.

    • @beachfrontal
      @beachfrontal Před 10 lety

      yobrotherofut Its all probably in some politicians pocketr by now , shame but probably true, i doubt if anyone will know ever how many thousands of tons were removed, por how much some people probably placed in their pockets.

  • @Supremax67
    @Supremax67 Před 3 lety +86

    If you need an item to symbolize your love, then your love is nothing but material. True love is what you feel, not what you own or spend it on.
    - Happily married for 12 years

  • @lrod6923
    @lrod6923 Před 3 lety +77

    😮 if this is the impact from all of the locks on the bridge, I wonder what kind of impact all of the keys below have?

    • @catoPL
      @catoPL Před 2 lety +3

      D: they are laying on sand 😮

    • @mikadosannoji553
      @mikadosannoji553 Před rokem +4

      @@catoPL some fish may end up eating it and dying

    • @microwavedmetal
      @microwavedmetal Před 11 měsíci

      @@mikadosannoji553yeah. A fish that sees rocks and hunks of metal every day is gonna eat a key. Animals are smarter than our ignorance gives them credit for.

    • @mskittysraiinbowpass
      @mskittysraiinbowpass Před 6 měsíci

      Right

  • @ashleymcginly1374
    @ashleymcginly1374 Před 5 lety +192

    Imagine putting your lock on there and it collapse I would run from that realtionship

  • @batterycock
    @batterycock Před 10 lety +490

    why don't they electrify the railing?

    • @TheEfpTV
      @TheEfpTV Před 6 lety +106

      because they are not retarded

    • @llVIU
      @llVIU Před 5 lety +59

      calm down satan, hahaha

    • @elirussell5940
      @elirussell5940 Před 5 lety +8

      batterycock good idea

    • @rock3tcatU233
      @rock3tcatU233 Před 5 lety +67

      Why don't they just put land mines around it too?

    • @bryce5519
      @bryce5519 Před 5 lety +31

      Everybody missed the joke here lmao

  • @FrazBB
    @FrazBB Před 5 lety +192

    Change the lock to a ribbon... or some lighter.... makes sense!? Won’t be very romantic when the rail falls onto someone below.

    • @Yggdrasilkuru
      @Yggdrasilkuru Před 5 lety +22

      Fraser Bottomley I guess they will say love hurts

    • @zebaakhatun
      @zebaakhatun Před 4 lety +2

      Weeb Ygg
      IM WHEEZING 😭

    • @proapocalypse1448
      @proapocalypse1448 Před 3 lety +1

      I think it's romantic.

    • @spaceduckofdreams806
      @spaceduckofdreams806 Před 3 lety +3

      @@proapocalypse1448 it is until someone dies because a bunch of morons think it’s ok to vandalise for love

    • @scootergrant8683
      @scootergrant8683 Před 2 lety +1

      casting is a very costly thing too. Not worth the city's time.

  • @goosindkoop1796
    @goosindkoop1796 Před 5 lety +292

    CZcams's algorithms will be never understood

  • @orphechristian1019
    @orphechristian1019 Před 10 lety +291

    u can cut it off , those couple are probably divorced now...

    • @orphechristian1019
      @orphechristian1019 Před 10 lety +5

      sorry for ur broke up , that's sad , like i said , a true love doesn't need a lovelocks , because its just true…thas it.

    • @OrtonFan4eva
      @OrtonFan4eva Před 8 lety

      +Celie BellyB3 how the hell did you find it? Theres thousands on there

    • @KingShirazz
      @KingShirazz Před 5 lety

      Nonsense...can be shirk. Wtf u believe with the stupid lock. Pray to god lah stupid minded people. God the one created u.. If u want anything even about love pray to god and make some effort.

    • @AetherCarl
      @AetherCarl Před 5 lety +2

      @@KingShirazz I dont think god created people to call other people stupid... Watch what are you typing 👀

    • @haronmenezes4562
      @haronmenezes4562 Před 5 lety +1

      Yeah, your probably right.
      But whole world ain't American's.
      Lol, We all know who tops the Divorcee list😂😂😂

  • @imtired3937
    @imtired3937 Před 5 lety +84

    Omg dude. They throw the keys in the RiVeR??!!

  • @progamer1020
    @progamer1020 Před 3 lety +5

    'This is the lockpicking lawyer, and today I'm in Paris..'

  • @chantal1852
    @chantal1852 Před 10 lety +229

    Please, please, please, Ville de Paris, just cut of the d*mn locks and preserve your gorgeous historic architecture. I'm a romantic person as much as the next person, but not if it's at the cost of history, or safety, or of not being able to get over ones personal ego just to have a piece of junk on a famous bridge.

    • @samyoung8960
      @samyoung8960 Před 9 lety +28

      I agree! The bridge really looks awful. I went to Paris recently and I noticed the locks have even begun to spread up the lamp posts; lamp posts that have beautiful and intricate carvings on them! Also, even a statue on the Alexandre III bridge in Paris had locks secured to it. Because of this tradition first time visitors to Paris will not be able to appreciate the old architecture of the city. This is also the case in Venice!

    • @doneyhon4227
      @doneyhon4227 Před 8 lety

      +Chantal Clement Oh tu es charmante Chantal!

    • @Lemontree77522
      @Lemontree77522 Před 6 lety

      Chantal why why why why do you want to do that it's love 🔒❤🕊 😍😃👒💍

    • @mojiburrahman4550
      @mojiburrahman4550 Před 6 lety

      Chantal kobirabita

    • @kimjongoof5000
      @kimjongoof5000 Před 5 lety +8

      최충현
      Love locks are vandalism

  • @Teddy_Bass
    @Teddy_Bass Před 6 lety +151

    Someone go magnet fishing there please

    • @Bart-Did-it
      @Bart-Did-it Před 5 lety +1

      Teddy Bass lol nothing but keys once you have a ton after 3 days work you will have £98 in your pocket once you transport that ton to the scrap yard taking up more time and fuel so say £50 yeh worth it .
      I doubt people went back to throw there wedding ring in cause the relationship did not work .
      And I’m sure the locals have stripped the river bed and smart enough to not post it on yt lol
      So all in all nah I’ll give it a miss as the river has restrictions on doing so 👍
      Like the mud larks of London Themes river licence pls 🖐

  • @kumo4236
    @kumo4236 Před 10 lety +84

    How many couples are going to break up? LOL

  • @chimebirdplayer3327
    @chimebirdplayer3327 Před 5 lety +101

    I realize that this is a tradition, but this doesn't seem environmentally friendly: This seems like a big waste of metal (a non-renewable resource), and simply throwing the keys into the river like that could contaminate the water.

    • @joshuagrahamfrom6594
      @joshuagrahamfrom6594 Před 2 lety +1

      It’s not even a. Tradition in the city tourists on their honeymoon, this ruins environment and ruins the beauty

    • @joshuagrahamfrom6594
      @joshuagrahamfrom6594 Před 2 lety

      @You can eat in class!! good use doesn't mean making a statue

    • @West_Coast_Mainline
      @West_Coast_Mainline Před rokem

      Well, matter can neither be destroyed nor created

  • @annabellelo
    @annabellelo Před 5 lety +40

    Welcome to another episode of "what's in my CZcams recommendations?"

    • @sunnymiu
      @sunnymiu Před 5 lety

      Annabelle Lo sounds like its an important news of today can’t miss

    • @MysticXX
      @MysticXX Před 3 lety

      welcome to i searched this up myself

  • @yeeyw
    @yeeyw Před 3 lety +18

    The perfect example that some stuff that fun to us isn’t so fun to the mother nature

  • @hildaelson4203
    @hildaelson4203 Před 5 lety +44

    Put the sign saying ‘anyone putting a padlock here will break up in a year’ That should do the trick.

    • @foahgl
      @foahgl Před 5 lety

      Yeah

    • @ysabellac.1309
      @ysabellac.1309 Před 5 lety +1

      no one would believe that...

    • @firstnamethenameafterthefi5687
      @firstnamethenameafterthefi5687 Před 4 lety +1

      @@ysabellac.1309 I dont think its about whether they believe it.
      People put those locks there because they think its romantic how it represents their bond.
      If the idea of that gets ruined by something that tells them that its bad for their relationship it might get less beautiful to hang the lock there.
      (People would probably ignore it and try to tell themselves that what they want to believe is true, like they often do)

    • @timothystone3360
      @timothystone3360 Před 2 lety

      they put up glass barriers instead

  • @oreosauce5776
    @oreosauce5776 Před 5 lety +9

    *Paris can’t handle this amount of love*

  • @arifakyuz7673
    @arifakyuz7673 Před 5 lety +29

    It’s stupid, not only because of structural reasons, but the idea of doing this is daft imho.

    • @divavelikogsrca6323
      @divavelikogsrca6323 Před 5 lety +1

      I love you 🙂

    • @bmxscape
      @bmxscape Před 3 lety

      the only idea that i think is daft is that they can't make a railing strong enough to hold 500 pounds of locks. i have seen people heavier than that , what if they walked into the railing and it snapped

    • @bmxscape
      @bmxscape Před 3 lety

      ​@ᚐᚇᚆᚐᚋᚆ ᚋᚐᚉ ᚉᚑᚅᚉᚆᚒᚔᚏ so.. make it stronger

    • @eisupremacy9861
      @eisupremacy9861 Před 3 lety +2

      Someones single

    • @arifakyuz7673
      @arifakyuz7673 Před 3 lety

      @@eisupremacy9861 Yeah? You checking me out?

  • @tijmen131
    @tijmen131 Před 4 lety +8

    Just like a toxic relationship, the bridge is collapsing under the weight of love

  • @Regularplay541
    @Regularplay541 Před 3 lety +2

    This is The Lockpicking Lawyer, And today I'm in heaven.

  • @jprpalau362
    @jprpalau362 Před 5 lety +13

    even the strongest relationship still can be broken😅

  • @andhewonders115
    @andhewonders115 Před 5 lety +11

    2019 and Brass is worth about $2.20 a kilo as scrap.

    • @alec4672
      @alec4672 Před 3 lety

      Dollars, yet kilos... You must be Canadian? 😂😂

  • @mrpub212
    @mrpub212 Před 10 lety +30

    Imagine all the couples whose "locks" were removed, suddenly start to grow apart and end up divorcing/seperating .... :O

    • @rvtar34
      @rvtar34 Před 5 lety +5

      They probably divorced before the locks were removed

    • @joshuagrahamfrom6594
      @joshuagrahamfrom6594 Před 2 lety

      @@rvtar34 lol everyone who had a lock decide their relationship broke up because it was never strong

  • @doblejota9651
    @doblejota9651 Před 5 lety +18

    1:13 Someone give this heroes a trolley! The stupid people ruining historical spots around Europe epidemic...

  • @lucazza3159
    @lucazza3159 Před 5 lety +10

    "What's wrong with people" -Dr. Phil

  • @Willtext
    @Willtext Před 5 lety +5

    Remove all the locks at once! The bridge is not the public’s property to destroy.

  • @evitasdad
    @evitasdad Před 5 lety +29

    One couple started it.
    And the sheep followed them.

  • @Zahhiruuddin
    @Zahhiruuddin Před 5 lety +8

    Love is blind
    But I didn't know love was heavy

  • @pianoaround
    @pianoaround Před 10 lety +10

    Nice I will have to go visit there tomorrow. Just arrived in Paris to do a Europe tour

  • @1815Offixial
    @1815Offixial Před 5 lety +7

    Now search the river for the keys and scrap cheap metal that pollutes the water

    • @NashTheGreat
      @NashTheGreat Před 5 lety +3

      A giant magnetic crane would settled that in hours

  • @catalickconverta6823
    @catalickconverta6823 Před 3 lety +1

    Nice bit of scrap hardened stainless and brass there tones of it

  • @cdfgh1111
    @cdfgh1111 Před 9 lety +13

    melt them down and give the metal to an artist to be cast ...into something permanent

    • @gregoryrose13
      @gregoryrose13 Před 3 lety

      you cant just melt down different types of metal together and cast it

  • @blablibliblu514
    @blablibliblu514 Před 10 lety +8

    Put up railing on which you can't attach the locks?

  • @rafidanish7278
    @rafidanish7278 Před 5 lety +4

    A million dollars for the one who matches atleast a key to its lock from the river in a day

  • @amybullas8968
    @amybullas8968 Před 10 lety +15

    This is and still is on my bucket list

  • @goodboi1232
    @goodboi1232 Před 9 lety +4

    Wait this is was last year?!?!?

  • @annaloveseverybody
    @annaloveseverybody Před 5 lety +2

    How are all of these people in a relationship and then there's me :/

  • @no-life4438
    @no-life4438 Před 2 lety +2

    Imagine all the keys in the river

  • @swishyswampy489
    @swishyswampy489 Před 5 lety +1

    You should see Prague

  • @KudosK42
    @KudosK42 Před 5 lety +9

    I’m gonna save you some time.
    It cost 20 quid per lock. What a waste

  • @aryaarabshahi4544
    @aryaarabshahi4544 Před 10 lety +5

    use wooden locks instead!!!

  • @spencernelson1560
    @spencernelson1560 Před 5 lety +1

    Its a big problem in every tourist city with a bridge. Some of those bridges are 1/4 the size of this one

  • @radutzu37
    @radutzu37 Před 2 lety +2

    Very good they’re removing those locks.

  • @bloggen2440
    @bloggen2440 Před 10 lety +6

    There is an app (LoveBridge App) where you can love locks attached to virtual bridges. Download on the App Store

  • @yeeyw
    @yeeyw Před 3 lety +1

    Melt the metal and separate the metal so isn’t unstable and made bunch of flower statue with the metals

  • @YourMateNate3
    @YourMateNate3 Před 5 lety +4

    Nobody:
    CZcams recommendations: hey I know this is isn’t relevant to anything you’ve been watching but how about “locks!” And not only just locks. It’s locks that break rails.

  • @getprobed838
    @getprobed838 Před 3 lety +1

    they should have melted them down and caste a statue with the metal

  • @deaded5040
    @deaded5040 Před 5 lety +1

    To anyone who says these couples are likely devorced now... some of those locks were hundreds of years old dating to the 1850s

  • @thankyoujesus2836
    @thankyoujesus2836 Před 5 lety +2

    Put a sign on it !!!

  • @szabogergo2903
    @szabogergo2903 Před 10 lety +5

    Why does it say the bridge collapsed? Some part of The railing fell off only under the weight of the locks wtf

    • @roccop3760
      @roccop3760 Před 5 lety +1

      It literally says bridge rail in the tittle

  • @felix941010
    @felix941010 Před 5 lety +1

    Quick release fences easier I think

  • @Ztertis
    @Ztertis Před 3 lety +1

    I bet 99.9% of every locks key is in the water below

  • @jestione
    @jestione Před 10 lety +2

    Put a railing fence around it.

  • @charliechuckleberry5307
    @charliechuckleberry5307 Před 3 lety +1

    I'm sure they make so much money selling locks that they don't care much about it.

  • @tatyananajee446
    @tatyananajee446 Před rokem +1

    if they melt them down could the be reused for something?

  • @christophervlaskamp7462
    @christophervlaskamp7462 Před 5 lety +1

    But I am more worried about the keys in the seine

  • @emmaherron5121
    @emmaherron5121 Před 5 lety

    These locks make the bridge look hideous. Please don’t do this.

  • @MrCrispyduck
    @MrCrispyduck Před 5 lety +1

    I bet the geezer that owns the padlock shop is well minted by now.

  • @mahaleyolson2249
    @mahaleyolson2249 Před 6 lety +2

    What if each lock they broke each couple breaks up

    • @joshuagrahamfrom6594
      @joshuagrahamfrom6594 Před 2 lety

      It’s mostly true they put there faith into a peice of metal to keep there relationship together meaning it was weak and they were insecure e about it

  • @KeshwaniPrep
    @KeshwaniPrep Před 10 lety +7

    the course of true love never did run smothLYLYLYLYLYLY!
    How did she get a job with BBC, one wonders!

  • @marshaarbi
    @marshaarbi Před 4 lety

    i visited paris in 2015, and there were still lots of them ?

  • @tiemenjansma4685
    @tiemenjansma4685 Před 5 lety

    Imagine magnet-fishing there

  • @eyefishinggunkchannel1011

    100s of padlocks..i would say 1000s or 100.000s

  • @xristoforosspiliopoulos190

    Take mine off.... I got divorced!😂😂

  • @redclaytanto
    @redclaytanto Před 5 lety +1

    This is stupid. Cut the locks.

  • @zeezee5402
    @zeezee5402 Před 5 lety

    What are they going to do with all those locks ?

  • @imogencarney3421
    @imogencarney3421 Před 5 lety

    ugh just cut those things it doesn't mean anything

  • @bodybuildingABC
    @bodybuildingABC Před 3 lety

    hire the Lock picking lawyer for a day

  • @adamtanpahawa850
    @adamtanpahawa850 Před 5 lety

    When someone got hit by the lovelock it will be the deadlock😂.better be careful then sorry though😂

  • @jagraj777
    @jagraj777 Před 2 lety +1

    Use Gold lock instead of normal
    And enjoy golden love

  • @rontheoracle
    @rontheoracle Před 5 lety

    Melt those locks, and turn them into mini Eiffel tower.

  • @ljmcobra0520
    @ljmcobra0520 Před 5 lety +1

    Cut it off and sell it for scrap, use the money to make repairs and build somewhere for the locks where they won’t damage property.

  • @codyblox7301
    @codyblox7301 Před 5 lety

    Number of breakups all over the world increased drasticly the next day

  • @Verzalux
    @Verzalux Před 5 lety +1

    It's mean they breakup

  • @windfreak221
    @windfreak221 Před 10 lety

    My girldfriend and I are planning our trip to paris, hope they fix the railings before october! :)

  • @JavenarchX
    @JavenarchX Před 4 lety +1

    Classic human behaviour... Not being responsible for one's own actions which then collectively multiplies into a hazard and pollution

  • @1Jason
    @1Jason Před 2 lety +2

    You could make a lot of money from the scrap metal. They should let the homeless go through and cut the off. Let them keep the money. Just give them a bolt cutter and a container with wheels

  • @jacktrablinski1291
    @jacktrablinski1291 Před 3 lety +1

    they should have melted them down and hired a foundry to make a neo classical statue of Aphrodite, the goddess of love, and put it in the center of the bridge with a beautiful base

  • @NOURINHO-rv5fk
    @NOURINHO-rv5fk Před 5 lety

    That means if your bad lock comes off, your love will be disappear.

  • @zhenyuhe1537
    @zhenyuhe1537 Před 5 lety +2

    If couples who broke up actually comes and remove the locks. I bet the bridge be empty.

  • @BayuAkbarK
    @BayuAkbarK Před 5 lety

    Anybody feel challenged for world record picklocking?

  • @myprofilepictureiscrabby.7900

    If you want to make your love forever, get married. Atleast don't mess up the beautiful structure.

  • @cheesse9yearsand
    @cheesse9yearsand Před 5 lety

    they replace with glass panels now

  • @liyaliya2407
    @liyaliya2407 Před 5 lety

    The power of love!

  • @speedbird388
    @speedbird388 Před 5 lety

    So all couple going divorced. Hahah..

  • @TheLucaseuropa
    @TheLucaseuropa Před 10 lety +1

    No nieźle

  • @Cerinaya
    @Cerinaya Před 5 lety

    It may have started off as a cute custom but it just got to be tacky. They should have started removing the locks once they started to clutter up the bridge. They could probably pay the people who did it with the money from the scrap metal.

  • @peezy8064
    @peezy8064 Před 5 lety

    Love locks are weird and dumb

  • @justsendmelocation5068

    Scraping them locks will pay for the daily wages for the labourers.

  • @birisuandrei1551
    @birisuandrei1551 Před 3 lety +1

    Just imagine...if the locks actually made a relationship last forever, then everytime one got removed a break-up would happen...that's a lotta broken hearts from an angle grinder lol.

  • @Outnumbered001
    @Outnumbered001 Před 4 lety

    They have to put up with locks.
    *We have to put up with the ones who put them there.*

  • @siemc9990
    @siemc9990 Před 5 lety

    all key should be recycled to be statue of some hero who fight for wolrd's peace.

  • @rafidanish7278
    @rafidanish7278 Před 5 lety +1

    And I thought a healthy relationship requires a genuine effort from both sides...what a load of crap is tieing the locks to the railing of a bridge.of what benefit is the tieing of lock apart from a mere cultural show....... seriously people have lost insight

  • @qwerty-vp1sb
    @qwerty-vp1sb Před 5 lety

    What a waste of iron

  • @satyasubhash8869
    @satyasubhash8869 Před 5 lety

    What a waste of resources

  • @KIoakk
    @KIoakk Před 3 lety

    Tfw ur last name is lovelock

  • @Netbug
    @Netbug Před 3 lety +1

    This is some serious NPC behavior.

  • @yolag8872
    @yolag8872 Před 5 lety

    It is the most disgusting view I saw in Paris.