Please stop putting locks of love on the bridges of Paris. They cannot handle it anymore. City authorities in the French capital are looking at ways to curb amorous couples leaving lasting reminders of their love on the bridges that line the city.
Since 2008, the trend has been to clasp a lock onto the railings of the famed Pont des Arts near the Louvre, and toss the key into the River Seine. All 150 metres of the bridge have been covered, head-to-toe, in locks. The weight of which actually caused part of the bridge to collapse in June.
Concerned for the safety of the bridge and its patrons, along with environmentalists worried of the effects that thousands of keys in the river will have, the new initiative will move to encourage people to commemorate their love not with a lock, but with a selfie instead.
Posters being placed at the bridge will ask couples to take a photo – and not potentially add to any future engineering-based havoc – and share the experience on Twitter with the hashtag #LoveWithoutLocks.
Will it work? Maybe. Possibly. Time will tell. Frankly, it’s a little redundant as far as I’m concerned. Given that the lock phenomenon lost all its romance the instant that someone stole Ben Wyatt and Leslie Knope‘s lock from the bridge, proving once and for all that true love is false and we simply cannot have nice things.
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