Removing "love locks" from bridges in Prague

[Gantry]

Anyone live in Prague? I watch this You Tube channel and this weeks episode was about remove "love locks". Wow, just think if we could get our hands on just some of those locks!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seMUW6pakbo

Gantry

[Squelchtone]

oh man, F that guy, I actually like love locks.

[stratmando]

Too bad a bunch of pickers, LPL, and the rest, pick them, then have a memorial Tree or something they could be locked back on to. I think maybe someone who is getting scrap prices, convinced someone else they need to be removed.
Contest would have been good for the local pickers to see who could remove most locks?
Cutting them off was a crime

[B1LLY-G04T]

Yoooo so long as I had permission from the local authorities or something, I would spend hours every day at that place just picking as many locks as I could. I'd do it for free just to get the practice in.

If one was feeling particularly evil they could totally open up a store to sell "love-locks" then pick them straight off the fence after tourists put them there, make the right keys for them again and re-sell them. It would be like killing two birds with one stone (or in this case more like 3-4 birds; Practice, profit, Cost-saving & preserving the landmark by reducing the damage of locks on the rails). Anyway these are the types of thoughts that made my parents worry that I'd become a criminal.

p.s I do not condone picking locks that aren't your own without expressed permission to do so.

[GWiens2001]

Yoooo so long as I had permission from the local authorities or something, I would spend hours every day at that place just picking as many locks as I could. I'd do it for free just to get the practice in.

If one was feeling particularly evil they could totally open up a store to sell "love-locks" then pick them straight off the fence after tourists put them there, make the right keys for them again and re-sell them. It would be like killing two birds with one stone (or in this case more like 3-4 birds; Practice, profit, Cost-saving & preserving the landmark by reducing the damage of locks on the rails). Anyway these are the types of thoughts that made my parents worry that I'd become a criminal.

p.s I do not condone picking locks that aren't your own without expressed permission to do so.

Amateur. If you were evil, all the locks you sold would be keyed alike, so you'd already have the key.

Gordon

[demux]

Yoooo so long as I had permission from the local authorities or something, I would spend hours every day at that place just picking as many locks as I could. I'd do it for free just to get the practice in.

If one was feeling particularly evil they could totally open up a store to sell "love-locks" then pick them straight off the fence after tourists put them there, make the right keys for them again and re-sell them. It would be like killing two birds with one stone (or in this case more like 3-4 birds; Practice, profit, Cost-saving & preserving the landmark by reducing the damage of locks on the rails). Anyway these are the types of thoughts that made my parents worry that I'd become a criminal.

p.s I do not condone picking locks that aren't your own without expressed permission to do so.

Amateur. If you were evil, all the locks you sold would be keyed alike, so you'd already have the key.

Gordon

The point of a love lock is that it should never be removed, right? So you sell them without a key. "Once installed even you can't remove it." It's a feature, and you charge a premium for it. No need to make any keys at all.

[GWiens2001]

The point of a love lock is that it should never be removed, right? So you sell them without a key. "Once installed even you can't remove it." It's a feature, and you charge a premium for it. No need to make any keys at all.

Introducing the Sargent and Greenleaf 951 Love Lock. Guaranteed to still be there when your grandchildren are born. Unless the bridge falls down. Caution - do not install more than four of these Love Locks per bridge.



Gordon

[jwrm22]

1) If you love locks, don't put them on a bridge to die.

2) Lockpicking love locks is frowned upon by many. Only a few groups like Toool.us say you should be allowed to pick them.
Picking these locks without permission will get you banned from some lockpicking groups. https://toool.us/lovelocks.html

3) This guy does not have permission to take these locks and sell them. They are not his property and does not seem to work for the local government.
Also it seems he's quite new to it as he attempts to carry the scrap metal away.