Paris Has No Love for Lock Tradition
Tuesday, 12 February 2013 | by Pat's Picks
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Attention tourists: Parisians don’t mind if you visit their city, but they’d like you to stop leaving locks everywhere. The Wall Street Journal says it has become fashionable for people to proclaim their love by buying a lock—Masterlock, padlock, handcuffs, whatever—writing their names on it, attaching it to one of Paris’s bridges and throwing the key into the Seine. The lovelocks have become so prolific that some worry about rust, pollution, and the weight of them making bridges unsafe, while others say a lock is too cynical to symbolize love.