The Origins of a Famous Paris Tourist Trap!

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[@AStupidTourist]

I appreciate the shout out

[@deadzio]

I would be more than happy to be removing those locks for free or free lunch 😂😂

[@prokux2529]

This is the Lock Picking Lawyer and today we are going to save a bridge...

[@makl196]

Imagine how good these spots are for practising lockpicking

[@shagrat47]

Make a contest: most locks picked in 60 min.😂

[@vaclav_fejt]

Except I doubt anybody would use something an Abus, it's gonna be the cheap chinesium stuff like I used on my school locker.

[@maxkrabel2320]

@@vaclav_fejtor master

[@iennefaLsh]

Don't forget McNally.

[@philruu]

Step 1: Sell lovelocks with you having a universal key. Step 2: Unlock and remove them a few days later with your universal key. Step 3: Rub off the marker and sell them again. Step 4: Profit!

[@bury4660]

they usually write something on the lock

[@midann]

​@@bury4660 'rub off the marker'

[@romanc189]

Actually you don't even need universal key. Those lock are very easy to lockpick even for amateurs. And I'm sure that some of them do this to resell them.

[@lusimyer]

Hahahaha..nice idea!

[@DidierLoiseau]

@@romanc189 You would still have to sell them with a key right? And I guess people throw the key in the river…

[@TilmanBaumann]

I find it so fucked up how a lock has become a sign of love.

[@MrHerrS]

It's cheap, it's fast and you can take a picture of it. That's much easier than washing the dishes every uneven week of the month for the rest of your life.

[@blazechaos212]

Really? To be fair, you're such a freaking killjoy.

[@ShadowValleys]

Fr

[@Wreckdiver59]

I agree 100% the locks are vandalism. When I was at the Sacré-Cœur some years ago there were no locks. It's such a shame to see them there now. The train/pedestrian bridge over the Rhine in Cologne Germany is covered with them also. They should fine the people selling them.

[@CX103]

The difference is that in Cologne, nobody minds them. It’s a railway bridge that can take a whole lot more weight than the locks add to it and as long as the (very ugly) fence that they cover up holds, they can remain.

[@blazechaos212]

To you, maybe. But then to be fair, you're such a killjoy.

[@Wreckdiver59]

@@blazechaos212 🤣

[@Skaði]

this tradition is now also happening at less famous tourist spots, we now have signs not to put locks on the bridge

[@dontknowdocare]

In Cologne it's really bad on the bridge the trains/pedestrian traverse on the way to the main station/ cathedral 😢

[@GCAbleism158]

The only way you can kill a tradition is by replacing it with another tradition.

[@oskarskalski2982]

This shitty tradition even came to completely non-tourist spots. In my hometown there is a bridge over one of the busy streets and even there people put those locks.

[@jeffclark5268]

It’s happening all around the world. Morons know no borders.

[@lrander]

I'm with you on this one. No, it's not up there with the idiots that carved their names in the walls of the Colosseum, but it's still vandalism in my book...

[@arandombard1197]

We need to just have undercover police officers and signs that say "200 euro fine for damaging property with locks". They'll pay for their salary with just 1 or 2 people caught and eventually people will get the message. If not, it just becomes a huge revenue stream.

[@LaugeHeiberg]

True lmao

[@D.Mon.]

They don't have enough time nor officers for this.

[@stephenlee5929]

I think this could work as a scam. Put up the sign: Then act as an undercover enforcer: Collect the fines: Would Honest Guide stop Me/Us? 🤔

[@OrangeTabbyCat]

As I posted here yesterday and the replay isn’t here anymore. Maybe don’t use Nazi methods but put someone there who actually explains to people what is happening. And put up a place where it is allowed to put those locks. Politicians, corruption, rich companies and people in charge put way more damage on things and the environment than these locks. Make art out of them, including them.

[@OrangeTabbyCat]

@@D.Mon. It’s a silly idea anyway

[@NeuroSpicyBrain]

Lovelocks are vandalism and cause extreme stress to structures that were not rated for all the extra weight... Thats how u collapse a bridge

[@CC-qx7hk]

Clearly cities can afford to have someone come by and remove them. It brings in tourism money to the locals, more jobs for removing locks, and the permanent stress is only caused when it's ignored for so long so keep it to weekly cleaning. (or more if needed. If a KZbinr and a couple others can volunteer enough time to do it for free, governments can pay a couple people to spend their working hours going around and cutting locks. It also takes money out of scammer's pockets.) I see no issue with it if cities keep up with cleaning them and see no downsides to cities removing them. People will pay tax one way or another, this way there are more jobs for the people at the least.

[@NeuroSpicyBrain]

@@CC-qx7hk are you a structural engineer?

[@nicholas4839]

It does not cause any problems

[@nicholas4839]

​@@NeuroSpicyBrainlearn to respect other people stuff if not go live in north Korea then not in the free world

[@NeuroSpicyBrain]

@@nicholas4839 Exactly Learn to respect other people stuff by not ramming locks onto a bridge... Proved your own point

[@PhoenixHen]

This is one of the many reasons why people hate tourists

[@JP-rh7eb]

Dear Prague scammers, if you want to drive Janek insane, sell locks in the shape of Trdlniks. Two dear, old Czeck traditions combined ...

[@peterpresentspeter6713]

but they should accept any expired money as well, just to make it an insider gag

[@ugrasergun]

French people be like "let's put a sign for foreigners warning them not to put love locks. And make that sign in FRENCH!"

[@jimbob4447]

I know right? They really needed to put it in Arabic so the locals can read it.

[@Meg_A_Byte]

French are so scared of using English that they won't even put it on signs for tourists.

[@MyRegardsToTheDodo]

That's the most French thing ever.

[@maxsupernova]

@@Meg_A_Byte You haven't been to Paris lately, have you?

[@vjollila96]

french being french

[@MK_2023.]

I agree, it’s vandalism. Those locks look disgusting and take away the beauty of the surrounding area. I hope a law is passed that allows the police to fine people caught doing it.

[@MerchantVenus]

There is a bridge in Bakewell, England that is covered in the same sorts of locks, which are being cut off tomorrow

[@milan724726]

what a timing

[@NiallWardrop]

Long overdue, unfortunately they are indulging the people that do it by providing them with somewhere else to do it. It's not a tradition, it's a recent invention.

[@CourtMcCheese]

I took ONE LOOK at the title and channel, I immediately knew it was going to be love locks

[@icewelder8117]

I mean they're in the thumbnail too

[@CourtMcCheese]

@@icewelder8117 i saw the notification on release, not big enough to see the whole picture on a iPhone notification

[@realkilju]

Imagine the amount of keys in the water lol

[@apl175]

I love the "how dare you" comments - people that change the world often have to dare and take risks.

[@davidwoo2590]

This is s stupid tourist behavior. They're doing this on the Brooklyn Bridge too. Ugh. There are signs indicating that it's a $100 fine. Wait! Can the sellers just remove them every day and resell them to the next couple?

[@SGilles919]

I think those locks are so tacky and make the bridge look ugly. I've never understood the point of them. They're probably super expensive too.

[@Kaibear]

"I have been to Paris with two different girlfriends" - sentences you don't say to your current girlfriend.

[@janjelinek3828]

Why not?! It's honest..

[@heikep4906]

That is a weird tradition. These locks are now everywhere on every bridge. Nevertheless I don´t think the divorce rate went down

[@dorivalcamargojr2953]

Actually, in Prague, all of them were removed, and there is a barrier now. The sad news is that the fence where people use to put the locks is collapsing

[@MarvinCZ]

It is removed regularly, but after a while the tourists always put more locks on it. And yes, the railing is now ruined, rusty and mangled.

[@blazechaos212]

@@MarvinCZ Good to hear. Stop being killjoys.

[@MarvinCZ]

@@blazechaos212 Why is it good to hear that the railing is being damaged and is almost destroyed now?

[@blazechaos212]

@@MarvinCZ It can be fixed anyway

[@RichardB1983]

I was recently in Paris, and yes, thousands of them on the railings by the Sacre Coeur, and at least half a dozen hawkers around the area at the top of the funicular approaching couples selling more locks - and lots of people buying.

[@freakishuproar1168]

I love that commenters were getting so mad at the removal of locks due to it being a "local tradition"... x3 You have my respect, lads! The sheer level of brainless entitlement it must require to rock up to a foreign country and effectively litter (albeit elaborately) and scream about how's "tRaDiTiOnAl".

[@averageuser2007]

It is an appeal to tradition fallacy

[@praiserdusty]

Start a whole new channel and take EVERY SINGLE LOVE LOCK DOWN!!

[@lucienguideconferenciermor482]

the bridge is originally from Napoléon! Years ago it was a popular place for students for epic parties but not anymore!

[@hedgehog3180]

0:53 The bottom left lock is just math.

[@SzymonPmc]

Greek name

[@Faargsob4]

I was just on Charles Bridge and you passed by. I was going to say hi but you looked like you were in a rush. Love this channel keep up the good fight 👏

[@BloPsy_Actual]

He's always catching some scammers lol

[@shorts3192]

1:23 that’s actually genius sound design here, nice touch guys!

[@youtubehand]

😊It looks much nicer without locks

[@gailcollins9331]

Great work that you removed the locks both in Prague and Paris. They just totally ruin historic bridges. Humans with idiotic ideas, what can I say. Keep posting your great videos. Gail, Czech Republic ❤️ ❤️

[@katieblade7083]

Im on board with cutting the locks. If things like tik tok and you tube didn't exist, it would be niche and cute to do locks. A secret, as it stands it has nothing to do with love.

[@Donice09]

I hate lovelocks they cause damage and they’re so ugly!

[@jj9749]

3:21 'that I do the show together with'

[@suomhi]

It's not only vandalism but perpetuating dangerous ideas about love.

[@cindybruin4888]

I'm with you, I hate these bloody locks!

[@TakaD20]

Iron and steel are 0.3 bucks per kilogramm. Heavier that plastic bottles, but still not bad and you don't have to rummage around in the trash.

[@yomintyfresh]

The original love lock tradition is allegedly in Pécs, Hungary (dating back to the 1980s). Pécs has leaned into it, though, and built an extra fence just for locks.

[@irondasgr]

Cities trying to attract tourists, cities not trying to attract tourists.

3:30 LPL would be proud

[@13StJimmy]

The only thing I find funnier than Janek’s hatred for Love Locks is people getting mad at him about it 😂 Maybe in parts of the US they do this but in the South we’d usually carve initials and dates in a tree. But I guess not many people carry pocket knives in Europe lol

[@samanthamulligan1422]

They used to do it on the Ha'Penny Bridge in Dublin Ireland but they have stopped since the pandemic and I hope it stays that way they are ugly.

[@TheMISTERAMD]

Love locks should be placed on a specific spot in each country where the structure can handle it. However if it weights really 700 kg or 1400 pounds... It's getting ridiculous. A bridge that collapsed because of love locks is stupid. Than they have to remove everything, fish the locks out of the water or the locks may pollute the water,... and they have to build a new bridge all because of some tourists that likes to put their lock on bridges... You can even say that the love locks is starting to become a scam on it's own if someone guesses the combination or use an universal key and resell the lock again later.

[@JamJestKesh]

we even have those in Zamosc on a bridge over a railroad, sadly nobody wants to do anything about it

[@oskarskalski2982]

In Bytom those locks are even on a bridge over one of the main streets. Although not as many but it is weird to see something like this on non tourist place.

[@petrpinc7695]

Janek, for a moment I thought you are gonna pull out your big cutting pliers with big&wide smile on your face and start removig those love locks. 😅

[@RedRumble14]

that’s love for me! we need more bridges of love 😅❤

[@Oleksandrovych]

Lavka Lasky, sound nice 🙂. Cool video by the way, thank you for that content 🙂

[@loumeep]

I've only just seen the news about the floods in Central Euro. I hope you and your family are safe

[@BloPsy_Actual]

Prague is prepared already after the last big one

[@TCh-f8f]

When I was in Paris in 2013, there were many locks on this bridge.

[@johncameron4194]

Keep up the good work

[@littlejonathorn6860]

All those gestures really pile on and lock 🔒 into place!

[@hanslund2280]

Possible Update on the river from the king Charles bridge ? Vienna looks catastrophic

[@Aqnde]

They tried that where I live. It was nothing a maintenance crew employee with a bolt cutter couldn't solve.

[@Yeah.Maybe.]

Irony. When couples who put the lovelocks broke up.😂

[@RealFooking]

I'm pretty sure the love lock trend is much older. I remember seeing a lot of them before 2005 as well.

[@limbo74]

You should see what touists do on the walls around the Juliet's house in Verona, Italy.

[@FigthAGAINSTSCOIALISM]

I hate that tourists vadalize places like this.

[@Infarlock]

As an InfarLOCK I feel personally attacked when they had to touch these locks

[@dantetre]

Give a heart to your love birds, Janek and Honza! :P

[@jj9749]

He has a 'girlfriend'

[@manavbhalla2861]

You just out the tourists in an awkward spot😂 considering they see people selling locks at the bridge, its fair to assume that might not be illegal

[@wolfgang2587]

great video mate.

[@tonylarussa4046]

I wonder how many of those love locked couplels are still together today!? They should heavily fine the guy selling the locks!!!

[@chiantozzo9341]

I visited Prague in August, i loved it but goddamn it pissed me off seeing that the Railings where you made your original video at the Charles Bridge were party collapsed, it's really annoying to see people disrespect the places they visit.

[@anuragnayak202]

Areeee gyani baba hatsoff ☠️✅💯❤️

[@Evy_B]

I am currently in Prague and yesterday I saw the padlocks on the Charles Bridge and I felt very sad about it. People who have no respect for history should be banned from traveling.

[@jerry2357]

I first saw locks being put on a bridge in Prague...

[@nikinecka]

I totally agree, it is vandalism!

[@bluepriest6990]

We have love locks at my local park, i take them off to protect the bridge.

[@sleutelbergen8678]

People = crazy

[@Jackfinn456]

I’m also not a big fan of love locks because they take away the experience slightly.

[@BloPsy_Actual]

For me, it's like if there was trash laying all around.

[@NickyDunn]

Enjoy your videos.

[@michaelkongstedt]

Interresting. You guys are in Paris. I am watching this weeks episode in Prague. I am off for a Tredelnik... See you.

[@AStupidTourist]

The nerve of some people ...

[@enthusiastisch1922]

YES! I AM SUBSCRIBER !

[@LucyWoIf]

Ive been to paris multiple times, and ive felt everything but love from that city. The smell of piss and overcrowded trams is the most romantic thing ever

[@remedios3895]

This is exactly what I imagined a guy would look like who would unironically mention that he went to paris with 2 different girlfriends

[@webnisse]

Two different girlfriends. Relationships over. Didn't put up a love lock. You do the math.

[@remedios3895]

@@webnisse you don't say

[@marksaar9698]

Nice Janek 😂

[@world_of_AstridMa]

so interesting share … greetings from 🇲🇨 Indonesia

[@AnakinSkyobiliviator]

Well, on the bright side, Paris and Prague shouldn't be getting a metal shortage anytime soon!

[@ogbunno]

I am shocked by the negative comments in your previous love lock video. Some people can be so conceited. Altering or endangering the structure of a public facility is vandalism 😮‍💨 this is a global problem.

[@Malene-Eng-n4z]

1:34 nah the real crazy part is that you converted kilos in pounds like chill man no one uses fake weight

[@Xython88]

The only thing that shocks me is that he went with two different girlfriends! How did they not know about each other!?

[@terezahradecka5848]

Wtf? He said he was there a couple times.

[@Xython88]

@@terezahradecka5848 It was a joke….

[@MrHerrS]

@@Xython88 Some people ...

[@Aventus.Aretino]

This cancer started here in Italy...

[@InfinitiveStar]

The French they put the sign of not allowing locks in French language? And the main problem was tourists putting the locks. Tourists that dont know French...

[@petrpinc7695]

A very French thing to do.

[@BleujetRBLX]

Lock picking lawyer we need you!

[@cocolade99marmie]

You can be a tourist without acting like one……

[@sugelanren]

Dear Prague. Enough with the rain please, it's too much. P.S. Paul serves good bacon and egg croissants. Nice.

[@MyRegardsToTheDodo]

Here in Cologne it's actually legal. There are a lot of shops that sell the love locks and tourists put them up on a railway bridge near the Cologne dome. Nobody really cares, because it's not a historical bridge or something like that and the city removes the locks regularly and either sells the metal or recycles it themselves. I think after the collapse of the panel in Paris some engineers actually looked at the bridge and considered whether the locks were causing any sort of stress on the bridge or not, and they don't cause any damage.

[@ajfrostx]

Deutsche Bahn said that they will have to remove the locks eventually, but given the state of their infrastructure the bridge will probably collapse before that.

[@tcormio1359]

The amount of locks in Cologne is insane..

[@MyRegardsToTheDodo]

@@tcormio1359 Depending on the source it's between one and 1.5 million locks on the Hohenzollernbrücke, that's between 45 and 60 tons of additional weight, the first locks appeared in 2008. The Deutsche Bahn has said multiple times that the weight actually isn't an issue, but the vibrations from the trains going over the bridge cause the locks to rub on the railings they are locked to, which might cause corrosion. In 2018 they considered removing the locks, but decided not to (atleast so far). I found a few sources claiming that the city did remove some locks that were a hazard, because they reached too far into the bicycle lane. On the official website of the city the locks are actually listet as a tourist destination.

[@michalneubauer4325]

So they waste resources making and selling those locks only to waste more resources removing and recycling them later... Nice

[@MyRegardsToTheDodo]

@@tcormio1359 Ok, seems that youtube didn't like my response to you again, even though there wasn't anything even remotely controversial in it. KZbin censoring is wild. Seems the comment after yours was also censored.

[@andyarchitect]

These locks are a waste of energy and materials and cause cities damage and maintenance costs. They are really just a form of littering and are no better than if everyone started sticking chewing gum to a bridge for some reason, or all tourists putting graffiti in one place.

[@deadzio]

So, they put the signs in French....great 😂😂

[@Knautschfriese]

One guy with one Bolt Cutter and he has enough to do for weeks, and money from the scrap metal.

[@oskarh6666]

And how many keys will they find in the river? I guess tons of them

[@lusimyer]

I hope they recycle the locks..its a lot of waste to go to landfill.

[@timbyrne914]

Unfortunately people misunderstand the tradition. Legend has it that if you hang a lock on the Pond des Arts or Karluv Most, you will never leave Paris or Prague as a couple. Your love stays right there. You'll break up, or more likely, one of you will die. There's even a DuoLingo story line about it. Frantisek and Katerina leave a lock on the bridge. Katerina eventually goes crazy, holding dead bird in the strange tool she has in her left hand, until one day Frantisek goes looking for her, and all he finds, floating under the bridge is her t-shirt: Zůstalo jen tričko, které měla na sobě. Don't mess with river gods.

[@slokmol]

7:53 video with 1:10 ad .

[@sn1kzZe]

Such a stupid tradition, whats more annoying is the sheep herd behavior that people display

[@bettyswallocks6411]

Yeah, but padlock manufacturers are having their best days!

[@Mini_Min_]

Go, Janek!! Remove those nasty locks and campaign for laws that treat such behaviour as what you describe it - vandalism! There should be serious fines for people who do that and those who sale the locks too. Enough with tourist stupidity.

[@fatfurie]

this bridge is a addict scrappers dream lol.. free money everyday

[@jibberjabber6919]

love locks are pollution and litter

[@KimJisoo55103]

한국에도 있어요

[@catesimms8945]

Did they really say it is a local tradition? Itis a stupid tradition from a book.