Can This Really Be True?
Feb 10th, 2014, 08:42 AM
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Someone last year posted photos of locks in Paris that were on statues. So disrespectful. They are also polluting the Seine when they toss the keys into it.
Fodors should remove that photo. It leads to encouraging others to follow.
Fodors should remove that photo. It leads to encouraging others to follow.
Feb 10th, 2014, 09:14 AM
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bvlenci, when I sign on to Fodors (actually, I don't sign on; it's set in my regular viewing window, but IF I did sign on), the first thing I see at http://www.fodors.com/ is a photo of two young people on one of those bridges fouled by "love locks" under the heading of "Editor's Pick. The 15 Most Romantic Getaways Around the World." The picture fast-forwards through the entire 15, but the first one, if I'm not mistaken, is one of the bridges in Paris.
Mar 22nd, 2014, 08:29 AM
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A chacun a son gout - Fodor's editors and I think alike - the locked bridges are wonderful and unique - yet some folks disdain anything out of the ordinary as a sacrilege - much ado about nothing or in this case something that many open minded folks find delightful.
Kudos to the editors for daring to do something like that - but I suspect they represent the feelings of most general tourists and not some culture snobs.
Kudos to the editors for daring to do something like that - but I suspect they represent the feelings of most general tourists and not some culture snobs.
Mar 22nd, 2014, 09:43 AM
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My assumption is that the editors are unaware of the controversy surrounding the custom. They see it as a popular tourist activity, which it is. I doubt they were being daring at all, and that is probably the last thing they would want people saying about them.
It is not unique, as pointed out by several posts. It did not start in Paris, it just caught on there as part of a growing trend around the world.
Posts like this one will hopefully educate both the editors and the public that there is a problem surrounding this kind of activity.
It is not unique, as pointed out by several posts. It did not start in Paris, it just caught on there as part of a growing trend around the world.
Posts like this one will hopefully educate both the editors and the public that there is a problem surrounding this kind of activity.
Mar 22nd, 2014, 09:55 AM
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When we were kids we would throw our sneakers onto the telephone line at the end of the school year. They are still doing this 50 years later and now is depicted as part of the local color as on a Brooklyn Nets t-shirt.
http://www.fanatics.com/NBA_Brooklyn...cagpspn=pla%22
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Although I think the practice postpubescent romantic non-sense, people like to things to be their own. Every generation thinks they invented sex and protest and this is no different.
http://www.fanatics.com/NBA_Brooklyn...cagpspn=pla%22
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Although I think the practice postpubescent romantic non-sense, people like to things to be their own. Every generation thinks they invented sex and protest and this is no different.
Mar 22nd, 2014, 10:47 AM
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Kudos to the editors for being tasteless idiots. One would expect them to have some level of respect for public edifices.
And agree - this is similar to the sneaker throwers - perhaps sensible to 12 year olds - but not adults in a position of responsibility.
I would support a fund to simply remove all of the locks - and anyone caught putting a lock on should have to pay to have 5 removed.
And agree - this is similar to the sneaker throwers - perhaps sensible to 12 year olds - but not adults in a position of responsibility.
I would support a fund to simply remove all of the locks - and anyone caught putting a lock on should have to pay to have 5 removed.
Mar 22nd, 2014, 10:53 AM
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Locks on bridges aren't anything new - I first saw them in Central Europe some 5-6 years ago, and the habit has gradually spread westward and now very definitely includes London and other UK cities. I don't know about France, but in Germany the local councils remove the locks on a regular basis, but they keep reappearing. Whether that's from the same couples swearing enduring love and installing replacements or different ones, I've never been able to discover.
Mar 22nd, 2014, 11:40 AM
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Mar 22nd, 2014, 12:13 PM
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Why does anyone need to send a petition to a city official about something I am sure they already know about? Does the petition do something to give them an answer? "Banning" something really works like all those "bans" on graffiti.
