True story but in bristol i stayed at hostel with bridge full of lovelocks That bridge creaked as if it could fall anytime sad thing was some actual cool locks were wasted on this bridge like a huge lion lock
Are you allowed to put brass in the garbage cans in czechia? I thought that all of western europe had laws against that? As you are supposed to recycle it. In sweden you can get a hefty 1400SEK/140 eur fine for putting metal into the garbage, even at home. This is going up to 3000SEK after new year (300+EUR) But perhaps it is like usual that czechia has an "exception" for everything.
Let me tell you a secret: love locks sold in Paris are sold to tourists, they hang them on a bridge or fence. A few minutes later, the “sellers” walk along the fence with a generic key. Remove the padlocks and sell them again as their business model.
@@mushroomcraft Easy - sell them the lock without the key ("Only locks once! Can never be taken off! Lasts forever!") Tourists can't throw keys, locks get removed every day and reused by seller.
If your love is only as strong as a cheap lock... Damn, that's sadge. people are weird. Like, plant a tree respectably, nurture it, something that could outlive you, and your kids, and your kid's kids. That is a sign of love, not cheap metal that will rust to nothing before you have grand kids.
@@VADemon That's actually an awesome business idea!😂 The profit hg does melting this metal stuff would be multiplied by 50 times or do ps. And you would be sure that lock doesn't overlived the relationship!
Maybe not. City services cut them off about once in a month. People really need to realise that these are not there forever as a sign of their love, they are just trash that will get cleaned up.
People have no idea what it means to live in a city with one of these touristic attractions. It's like working at Disneyland all year round, you have to be kind and nice and "let them live the dream", because cities earn from this. Meanwhile tourists are insufferable. This year, 5 different monuments in Italy were damaged by tourists that "wanted to live a mark". They decided to draw their names on the 2000 years old walls of the colosseum, they broke a 400 yo statue and almost damaged the front face of a 300 yo palace, they drew with a marker on a 700 yo bridge, and decided to do some parkour on houses from a city that it's over 1500 years old. If you don't care about the things you are visiting, why do you even bother doing it???
I hate those locks. They now show up everywhere not just bridges. Some iron fence on a centuries-old castle tower? Yes, there is a stupid pink lock on it. Some fences/railings have collapsed under the weight of those things and had to be replaced. Sooo romantic to destroy something historic for a Tictoc picture. Just stop it already. They are just as bad as scratching your name into something.
@@blazechaos212 A trend, not tradition. Followed by tourists, not locals. The locals have a right to protect their monuments. Respect theirs, or else don’t expect them to respect your littering.
At least the coins can be considered as a immediate revenue for the city and used for any purpose like health and infrastructure. Keys it cost money to melt down back into metals that can be used for any purpose.
@@jomarcentermjm It usually takes more money to clean up the fountains than they collect from the coins thrown in... People are sometimes so, so dumb...
@@zwerko If they're collecting 1.5m in coins yearly, i don't think they spend more than a couple hundred thousand on the whole cleanup enterprise for that catch.
Getting hated in TikTok is one of the best compliments in this decade. Hats off! Thank you for doing this. Edit: Wow! Just rechecked my comment and found out that I have got 4.8K likes. I never received more than 5 before. Thanks guys and keep support Janek and Honza.
@@EvanG529 I have no tiktok experiance. Reddit however is extremely easy to get hated on. Just have an opinion that is fractionally different to the herd mentality and Boom, your hated.
@@joevictor53honestly I don’t mind tourist shops. It keeps people employed with dumb tourist money and prevents people from taking their own ‘souvenirs’.
@@landdreugh9955 completely fair. I do think that’s partly on the city for not being proactive in zoning those areas for a better mix of commercial development. That said, if you end up blocking tourist shops from setting up in touristy areas they will just go in the next closest neighborhoods, and affect those neighborhoods instead. That might be worse because those would be neighborhoods where locals actually live and work.
I do this at the park but it’s good lockpick testing experience. Idiots can’t see the fence is already sagging from their stupid locks and just keep adding more. Get a decent amount of money for the scrap too.
@Elatenl Those rails are very old and can't hold the weight of all those locks. A bridge in France had a whole rail fall into the river due to love locks. The Czech government encourages people to remove them.
@@JA37Viggen The sad part here is that despite the damage people still do it, will go to another bridge and put locks in it. It is so laughable the basis of their love is in these locks - sometimes I wonder how many of these couples who placed a lock are still together as there are no videos of couples going to back to check their locks.
@@MartintheTinman Haters who delete their comments after getting replied to? a bunch of cowards? yeah, they're anomalous alright. call the SCP Foundation.
Funny, I made a comment about the TikTok collective having less brain cells than a normal person and the TikTok haters reported it. I must be right. Truth hurts I guess.
In China users are greeted with smart videos, upgrading their knowledge, their education. In western courntries, tik tok will show you stew peed videos to have our people being dumbR and dumbR every day. That is part of their plan to conquer the world.
In Bad Nauheim in Germany they found a creative solution, they put a huge heart of steel at the entrance of the bridge, so every couple has a place where they can put their love locks and the brigde isn't damaged
I'd rather just see a perma guard on duty who just throws fines everywhere then use the collected money from they dumbasses to repair and maintain the historical sights. Same like they fine people if they steal stones from certain beaches.
They should make the heart hinged on one end so some guy can just remove it, open up the heart, and dump all the locks out at once instead of having to cut them off one by one
I didn't make it through the first minute without laughing lmao 🤣 "But my 5 dollar lock, you took it off the bridge! Now there's nothing holding my relationship together, how could you do this!?"
Your analogy is perfect, imagine leaving trash somewhere and demanding it not be picked up because it was sentimental for you. This is actually how hoarders minds work, they can't throw things away because they feel attached to the trash.
There is a subtle difference. Hoarders individually collect tons of trash that they usually keep to themselves, while this kind of people (thousands of them) leave behind their individual bit of trash that eventually piles up into tons of trash for others.
When the honest guide guys first did this a couple years ago, some friends and I got in an "argument" where they took it one step further, asking "who are they to cut the locks off? It's not their job!". I had to ask them if all the good samaritans who have ever voluntarily picked up bags and bags of trash in cities and forests should be ashamed of what they did because it wasn't their job. Of course, my friends had no reply. People get attached and invested in the weirdest things.
@Chris-vg3ml They probably misunderstood/misapplied the wisdom "two wrongs don't make a right": It means that revenge is wrong and that just because someone else did a wrong is no defense for you doing the same or a similar wrong, but when the second wrong undoes or stops the damage of the first wrong, then two wrongs definitely DO make a right! Though, personally I don't think removing private property that damages public property from public property is even wrong to begin with and if necessary it even justifies destroying the private property that was put there. But many people, including those friends of yours, seem to disagree somehow... 🧐
all the dates on the locks are from 2024, which makes it pretty clear that if you leave a lock, it won't last even a year before it's removed by the city.
LOL me too! Investment in what exactly? 😅 the only investment is people paying taxes in Prague to cover the costs of cleaning up the city from this bs 🤬
@@CX103 Vandalism is damaging or destroying something, so no, it's littering/leaving behind garbage. The accumulation of garbage can damage the bridge in the long term though.
LPLs coworker McNallyOfficial actually has a short of him removing locks from a tower. Can recommend checking it out "Lock picking for cleaner parks" is the video title
The worst defacing by tourists I have ever seen seen is at Juliet's Balcony in Verona. First of all, Juliet didn't exist and this balcony obviously wasn't the one in a story. But in the archway next to the 'balcony' people have written on plasters and stuck it to the wall, it just looks like rubbish stuck on a wall, looks incredibly dirty and unhygienic. But because one person did it, now everyone does.. brainless.
After seeing the reactions you got from the TikTok hivemind a few months ago, I went and cleared locks off the bridge in downtown Chattanooga. Now me and my girl do it once a year, the city even made a post discouraging people from leaving them on the bridge.
@@AprlmooreI think if you look hard enough in very touristy spots you’ll find somewhere that people do this, I’ve seen it in Paris, Prague, Amsterdam and where I live in the UK, notably always near water it seems for the throwing of the key
Had the same happen in Paris in 2015. we have this incredibly famous bridge, Pont des Arts, where people would leave lovelocks, and the bridge actually was at risk of collapsing so they just removed everything. 45 tons of metal it was.And then they replaced the fences of the bridge with ones that you can't clip things on. (their shape doesn't allow it). They gave the locks away though, didn't threw them, to an artist named Cyprien Gaillard. He's been recycling them into his art pieces apparently. Now people put them on the lampposts at each ends of the bridge, but there is much less room, and the city does regular cleanup as well.
As a blacksmith i can tell you how much work is in this ironwork, there are many weeks of work there and a very good one, is a piece of history and for me is like some one puting locks in the Mona Lisa hahah. Also like you say, the rust is killing that grill! That grill should appreciate as it is, a piece of art made of iron from profesionals and also a dying art that is getting bery difficult to keep and find. Many countries in Europe have problem doing restauration in this king of work
Thankfully, Czechia still has many skilled blacksmiths. Even at local city events, there is always at least one that presents the traditional way of blacksmithing - it is more for the show, sure, but it is still amazing to see and smell the coal, etc. And also historical fencing, love to see their armor and swords. That is not an excuse to destroy these monuments though, or even just simple things such as historically made railings, etc. Tourists have no idea their actions are destroying these handcrafted pieces, it's sad.
Very true! It's the blacksmith equivalent of carving your name into a stone of a gothic church. The amount of work the masons put in them was incredible and it would be almost impossible to restore.
*Those people:* _"I may have had no right to put my lock there (vabdalism/damage of property), but that doesn't give you the right break it open to remove it, that's damage of property! Two wrongs don't make a right! 😭"_ Well, yes! In this case it absolutely makes a right, since the second wrong literally undoes or at least stops the damages caused by the first one!
@@automation7295 in a democracy, the government IS the people, weather they work for it or not (through taxes we all work for the government/our collective society). Ideally.
@@automation7295 The city doesn´t belong to government. The city belongs to its citizens. We are not living in totalitary state. Actualy even government belongs to citizens of the country here.
@@automation7295 Citizens don´t own private properties in the city, but they own properties owned by city. Same like citizens of the country are co-owners of state properties.
My city had a one-off event for Valentine's Day where you could buy a love lock and attach it to a specially-made heart shaped structure. They eventually took it "on tour" (probably just melted the whole thing down and recycled the materials). A good way for the city to make some money and deter people from attaching love locks on bridges.
I like this idea. Gimmicky but at least satisfies both ends of the spectrum. If people know what they’re in for (i.e., the locks will only be for Valentine’s Day and will be taken shortly thereafter), they would still probably go in for the fun of it.
The same people probably blocking the roads because of the environment..but throwing a cheap metal key into a river is fine for them, if we dont think too much about how they travelled there.
@@geirmyrvagnes8718You throw away the key to somewhere from where it never can be retrieved, to symbolize that the bond between you can never be broken.
@Deckzwabber Obviously, but if someone bought a cheap Chinese lock to lock it where city workers would have to remove them several limes a year and dumped the key in the waterways to declare their love for me...
The love locks are the new way of vandalism. It is disrespectful to all cities' culture and history - be it if you are in Paris, Prague or anywhere in the world. The locks scratches and damages, and throwing the keys into the river is litering.
I'm only 1:25 into the video and can't believe that someone took the time to email you. Do people understand how much weight those locks are and how much damage they cause to historical locations. If you need a so-called love lock to prove your love, you're doing love all wrong
We, me and my partner, visited Paris 20 years ago and he asked me to buy a cheap padlock. I didn't. But asked "why should I do this?" He showed me the famous bridge with love locks. Oh my God! It was the most stupid idea I've ever heard! Do not allow the stupid tourist to pollute your beautiful Prague! Take locks away!
That bridge in Paris is where the whole love lock thing started afaik. Honest guide features it in a recent video. Paris had to replace the fences with glass panels to stop that
He said "bring pictures". Hear that tourists? The bridge and river demand physical photos, preferably polaroids with adhesive backings. Please, only pictures of genitalia to declare your TRUE love.
The whole commercialized romance of lovelocks is pathetically mindless. And sadly most of the people who commit these senseless sentimental acts are exactly the kind of people with the attention spans of goldfish; TikTokkers who haven't got the ability to sit for ten minutes to watch a video and get educated. But thank YOU Janek (and Honza!) for fighting the good fight!
Couldn't agree more! They're falling for a medieval superstition that was probably invented by a trickster who aimed to grab some gullible people's coins. 😂
They say Reddit has toxic communities... but this seems so much worse. First there's people defending Cameron Coyle Herrin saying he's "cute", now we have this.
It's such a pointless thing to do. Most of those people probably break up anyway so who cares?. The lengths that people allow their emotions to control them confuses me.
I think the best comparison is graffiti You can write your names on a beautiful wall and say it's a memory and it is.... but it's also defacing public spaces. We are not entitled to put ourselves onto the public space it's very self important
It's worth mentioning that memorials don't tend to stick around forever, they pop up to let people know and mourn and such and then at some point they're just gone and it's like it was never there to begin with, I understand the symbology behind love locks and it's a cute wasteful gimmick but putting something there fully expecting it to vanish one day is part of what makes the memory all the more special in a way, you know? edit: I would unironically love to see one of those giant scrap yard magnet cranes waved around over the water just to see how many keys it could fish up, terrible idea mind you, who knows what other things are under there important or otherwise!
I think that Tiktok is rotting people's brains. The comments there really are childish, if not completely nonsensical, often coming from people who post their own content there. That's why I stick to Instagram.
While most short-form platforms do encourage quick engagement, that certain byte dance site actively encourage hostile behavior against anyone not in their "protected group". And that "group" changes on their whim.
@@GamesFromSpace I don't think that most of these comments are from children. As a U.S. citizen, a lot of these speaking and writing styles match up with the literacy rate of younger adults in their early 20's to 30's in the U.S.
@@TheRibbonRed I don't know, I see this on Facebook too, what you are describing. If not, more so. It's just among a different age group and different competing tribal interests. But the way the algorithm on Tiktok is structured in particular to push problematic content tailored to its users and push trash content to the top is the bigger problem for me. The algorithm also behaves differently for me in the U.S. vs. in Austria when I tested it. I actually got worse content and ads for my mental health and my mood pushed at me excessively in the U.S. more than I get it in Austria. It seems very deliberate, so I deleted the app.
Although they are not as common in the United States, i quite like going to bridges and cutting/picking love locks off of them. It is a great source of locks for a lockpicking hobbyist like myself. Magnet fishing for the keys is also a great idea to keep the rivers somewhat clear of stray keys. Thank you guys for bringing attention to this issue, i dont see many people talking about it :]
I actually was able to see the moment a guy in uniform turned off a fountain in Las Vegas and proceeded to remove the coins from there 😂 I remember thinking "That makes sense. If you let them acummulate eventually there will be no water"
A Love Tree was made in my hometown. On which people could hang the locks of their love. Instead of hanging on the bridge. The tree stands next to the bridge and the river where many tourists hang out.
This is a really smart idea. A love forest/garden. Think about it.. the city buys up some land, renovates it with landscaping and makes plots for trees. People can buy a sapling to plant on a plot, and also buy locks. At the gate is a recycling bin you can put the keys in so they can get melted down, People could be briefed on this when they buy them. That way, you get more jobs in the area, you stop people putting locks on architecture, you're actively planting trees which helps the environment, and any money from the locks or trees bought go right back to the city and its development.
@Ixarus6713 I'm very cynical about monoculture tree planting. High goals perhaps, maybe a permaculture garden or a genuine re-wilding lost forest effort. A lumber farm in miniature is rather meaningless in the grand scheme of things.
The tourists will still throw the keys in the river instead of a special trash bin, because the action feels more permanent. They "throw away the key", that's the point for them. I can't think of a good alternative (well, except for people to stop doing this bullshit). Maybe you could instead somehow offer to melt down these keys right away, and the couple to watch them melt. It will be very expensive to maintain, so it won't work...
@@Ixarus6713I'm sure it's not a living tree. If it were, the locks would kill all the branches by pinching them off disastrously a few years later. More likely it's a wrought iron sculpture of some sort.
I am embarrassed to say: Long, long, ago, when my budget was very tight, I sometimes took coins from fountains to afford lunches. Alas, the poor couples whose marriages I ruined, just to afford a burrito. Seriously, Janek, keep up the good work.
Don't feel bad, those were well earned lunches! You did good and honest work to get the money, you cleaned the well! 👍 Besides, I'm 100% convinced this is EXACTLY why some medieval trickster got the idea to tell people to throw coins in a well in the first place: so they could snatch them. 😂👍
In Wieliczka the guide says: Don’t touch the sculptures. One finger has humidity and may not damage it, but we have around one million visitors per year, if each visitor touches one time a part of the sculpture, it would be destroyed in a year.
The Roman Colosseum (and other places) has a problem with people chipping off pieces of the walls to take as souvenirs. No big deal, these people think, there's plenty of this stone here. But there are millions of such people. They would take the entire Colosseum apart for souvenirs. Unfortunately, we live among vandals who only know how to destroy. Stupidity and lack of education are a big problem for humanity.
The same when you go to car veteran museum, it's banned to touching them because that metal can be conserved in some condition and when milion people touch it with sweaty fingers, it could get more damaged.
There's all sorts of stuff like that. Caves for example with growing stalagmites ... some of those are tens of thousands of years or more old, and just a few people touching them can stop them from growing and discolor them forever. Unless something explicitly says that touching is okay, just keep your hands to yourself and only look. It really can't be that difficult ...
@@Sp4mMe There must be always sign "do not touch" just for my father, because he would definitely touch it, I have to always keep him away from voltage when I am fixing something, because he would just touch it, that's what he is doing. 😀
I never understood why people even put locks on any bridges? Love never last forever, people usually break up with each other after 1 - 2 years anyway, So what even the point of putting love locks?
Geez those people are SO pressed over this? They are the ones that arent normal lmao. Thanks man very proud of you! Ive always felt it was bad leaving all those locks there and throwing the keys in the water :/
The humanity... Thank you for your service man. I've been in Prague with my girlfriend and we were disgusted with the idiocy and entitlement of people thinking they can do this to a beautiful place like that...
TikTok is mostly just a dumpster. Never been to Prague, but I honestly would prefer to see the sights as they should be, without any trash left behind.
Yes, I agree, love locks can be considered a form of littering, but at the same time, what is the difference between them and the crosses left at the "Hill of Crosses" in Lithuania? The Hill of Crosses itself originated from the very idea of bringing crosses to the hill.
Ah...to have the confidence and entitlement of a tourist who leaves their garbage on a historic spot in the world. This is no different than people who carved their names into National Parks in the USA or chipped off pieces of the Great Wall of China. It's DESTROYING something. The taunting of a schoolyard bully is actually good advice "take a picture, it'll last longer." But seriously. Take a picture.
Guys listen, what If you put the lock, take a picture and then take it off, trow the keys in the bin and bring the lock with you home so you going to have a memory without destroying a piece of history
@@Eyclonus at that point its less of a metaphor defining the relationship and more of a souvenir, and its not wasteful - you buy it, and in the end, you get a picture of a silly little thing and a souvenir to take home, all without defacing historic places or destroying bridges and fences, while supporting some shop locally its more of a symbol at that point, one that isn't harmful and isn't to be taken too seriously, but is something to carry around to remind you of the trip and that moment with your partner - sure, there's better souvenirs, but its a cheap thing that you can do just about anywhere you could also not judge people for things that don't harm anybody but mean something to them, like this alternate solution, and be glad that people at least have ideas that could slowly change what people are doing/how people are doing it
Start a new charity - for 1 euro (cheaper than the love lock), they will plant a tree in a Czech forest that, like your love, is living and grows. Sign up with an email and get picture sent to you of the tree being planted. Perhaps even a sign with your name.
5:40 Yes the brass and stainless steel in the lock are causing galvanic corrosion where the mild steel fence is the anode, thus the most corroded part. People don't understand these things though and cause destruction.
Thank you for standing up against this poor behavior and disrespect to your city. I grew up in a tourist city and I now go to school in another tourist city near a national park and it drives me mad the things people do to some of our natural monuments. Don't cave in to the social shaming. these vandals should be ashamed of themselves.
Surely a nice memory would be to take a photo on the bridge, by the water, by the wall…rather than a lock you will never see again, and odds are forget about it.
Sadly they take a picture with the lock in place. It would be better if they did this then removed the lock to take home with them, to place next to the picture.
Thank you for all your efforts trying to make the world a better place. Putting locks on all kinds of places is already dumb, but then throwing the keys into the river is so stupid it needs drastic fines on the spot.
0:53 The Rheinbruecke in Cologne is full of those. What is that for an memorial? These things hang in the way, people drive their scooters and bikes on the bridge. Then there are pedestrians and runners. Congrates, dear tourists, you have created a nuissance, a dangerous trap dangling in the sidewalk. The city of cologne wonders if the bridge is still stable enough to hold trains. Please do not leave your lock on public fixtures and buildings. As a tourist you are supposed to take photos and not leaving traces like those. I wonder, how would railway workers and the fire department evacuate an ICE on this bridge if they have to cut through locks first.
2:15 by the dead internet theory, most internet traffic is already non human or non organic. By change many of these users are not users. They could be AI. AI which was trained to insult people, like a soundboard.
The locks are not a problem on that bridge. None of the problems that other places have with the locks exists in Cologne. The bridge can take the weight of six trains at once, so the locks don’t make a difference. The fence they’re on is ugly anyway, so aesthetically they’re not an issue either. And it has been holding up for years. As for traffic, the bridge is a tight spot anyway. Many of the pedestrians on it stop to enjoy the view and some stop to take a few looks at the locks. You can simply walk around them. And finally, safety: in the event of an evacuation on the railway part of bridge, the passengers can simply walk off it on either side, towards Deutz or the main station. People aren’t supposed to move between the footpath and the tracks, that’s why the fence is there.
Problem is who would pay for the cops standing around 24/7? Also I'll bet that the lock sellers right around the bridge would make the sign magically dissapear very quickly (to sell anything on the bridge you must be a registered artist and it must be your artwork, but just few meters away it's a wilderness).
In Prague, the police will jump out of nowhere to give you a ticket if your transit pass isn't correct, but they don't bother standing around the bridges, allowing tourists to litter and deface public property at will. Makes a lot of sense. 😧
If I placed a lovelock on a bridge and found out someone removed it I wouldn’t care less. It’s a show of love as a memory, I’m not gonna care if the lock is gone, the memory stays. If people are so hung up on a lovelock being removed then they should have put it up in their home or something, expecting the lock to stay forever is silly.
People complaining that their locks were removed from a monument where they have nothing to do is like sprayers complaining that someone is washing graffiti over them. I live in Prague and miss Prague from the nineties (and older), no embarrassing tourist rubbish.
Except sprayers don't complain if their graffiti is painted over (even though it was much more work to make than putting a lock on a fence), they're smarter and less entitled than that! 😂👍 I thought that's worth noting
As a student in Germany, I once visited Bremen and one of the fountains had many euro coins. I collected around 10 euro worth and i deposited in one of the nearby church just 10 meters away. People are just dumb.. I also clear out and collect deposit bottles in my area because it is beautiful with nature and 30 minutes from the city centre. There are no homeless people to collect in my area unlike city centre. Those who throw away those bottles and cans are the GenZ kids who are barely between teenage and adulthood. I also have to weekly collect plastic wrappers along with few other friends just to keep my area clean. What they are teaching in schools none knows.
*"People are just dumb"* Great, I'm also dumb when I never threw any coin in the fountain? I would never do that. I also never pick up anything from a fountain, I usually don't give a shit about coins, especially Euros as stores in Denmark usually only accept Danish Krone (DDK). *"Those who throw away those bottles and cans are the GenZ kids"* How do you know it's only Gen Z kids? People born in 1996 or before do also throw bottles and cans on the ground. I sometimes also pick up bottle and/or cans.
Situation with garbage here in Czechia got much worse with more and more lodging houses for Romanian workers and ofcourse because of 2022, I guess you know what I mean, I don't want to trigger censoreship. In these countries, they just throw garbage out of window and they bring this culture here.
@@Pidalina Czech person being racist like this seems particularily ironic You literally said the same thing about Romanians that people here in Germany say about you
As someone who’s family is from the Czech Republic, I thank you ENDLESSLY for this act. Love locks are so ugly, and I’d rather see some place in its real state and not covered by tourist trap items. If they really wanted something for an everlasting memory there, just take a picture of the two of you making a heart with you hands in that location. You got your place, you got your heart, and you left the place alone. Plus, no need to buy the love lock!
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True story but in bristol i stayed at hostel with bridge full of lovelocks
That bridge creaked as if it could fall anytime sad thing was some actual cool locks were wasted on this bridge like a huge lion lock
@@HONESTGUIDE how did you post this comment 9 days ago if the video was only uploaded 7 hours ago?
Are you allowed to put brass in the garbage cans in czechia? I thought that all of western europe had laws against that? As you are supposed to recycle it. In sweden you can get a hefty 1400SEK/140 eur fine for putting metal into the garbage, even at home. This is going up to 3000SEK after new year (300+EUR)
But perhaps it is like usual that czechia has an "exception" for everything.
Do you have an e-book online version to download of your Prague Honest guide? Thank you
@@vardekpetrovic9716omg, that was not garbage, but container for recycling. I guess you have them in Sweden too... :D
Let me tell you a secret: love locks sold in Paris are sold to tourists, they hang them on a bridge or fence. A few minutes later, the “sellers” walk along the fence with a generic key. Remove the padlocks and sell them again as their business model.
That's actually good lol making money out of nothing, some a desire of tourists to do something so vain
Good.
Some people deserve to be scammed
Sadly, this doesn't solve the key problem
@@mushroomcraft Easy - sell them the lock without the key ("Only locks once! Can never be taken off! Lasts forever!") Tourists can't throw keys, locks get removed every day and reused by seller.
@@Tomoeine Yea, that is a solution!
Someone said this perfectly before: if your love depends on a lock on a bridge, you're f*cked.
If your love is only as strong as a cheap lock... Damn, that's sadge. people are weird. Like, plant a tree respectably, nurture it, something that could outlive you, and your kids, and your kid's kids.
That is a sign of love, not cheap metal that will rust to nothing before you have grand kids.
@@radfoxuk8113 Or you could weld the lock to the bridge 😂
That's why you build a bridge first before locking in... ;^)
As some guy commenting on a McNally video once said: if you relationship is held together by masterlock, it was doomed from the start
@@radfoxuk8113what if someone cuts your tree down?
90% of these people have broken up before you take the lock off anyway.
Yes. Your relationship is not in a good shape, if you need to prove it with an object.
couples must take the lock off at their divorce ceremony/celebration 🎉
@@nesser52 Lock space rental. 50$/year.
@@VADemon That's actually an awesome business idea!😂 The profit hg does melting this metal stuff would be multiplied by 50 times or do ps. And you would be sure that lock doesn't overlived the relationship!
Maybe not. City services cut them off about once in a month.
People really need to realise that these are not there forever as a sign of their love, they are just trash that will get cleaned up.
People have no idea what it means to live in a city with one of these touristic attractions. It's like working at Disneyland all year round, you have to be kind and nice and "let them live the dream", because cities earn from this. Meanwhile tourists are insufferable. This year, 5 different monuments in Italy were damaged by tourists that "wanted to live a mark". They decided to draw their names on the 2000 years old walls of the colosseum, they broke a 400 yo statue and almost damaged the front face of a 300 yo palace, they drew with a marker on a 700 yo bridge, and decided to do some parkour on houses from a city that it's over 1500 years old. If you don't care about the things you are visiting, why do you even bother doing it???
Why, for the pointless collections of "memories", of course!
Why, for the pointless collections of "memories", of course!
Nah, I live by: If you behave like a prick, you will be treated like one and you definitely will choose another destination for holiday next time.
For views.
The people breaking stuff are doing it for views online. Normal people who don’t use social medias as a lifeline don’t act like that.
I am so sorry that happen! Some people just need to stay home I swear. They are the reason reasonable tourist are treated so crummy at times...
I hate those locks. They now show up everywhere not just bridges. Some iron fence on a centuries-old castle tower? Yes, there is a stupid pink lock on it. Some fences/railings have collapsed under the weight of those things and had to be replaced. Sooo romantic to destroy something historic for a Tictoc picture. Just stop it already. They are just as bad as scratching your name into something.
"tictoc picture"
Who cares about that? Such a whiner. Let people leave locks in peace
@@blazechaos212Everyone cares about that. Stop leaving your litter in tourist locations. Its illegal.
@@DanksterPaws that's not litter, that's tradition
@@blazechaos212 A trend, not tradition. Followed by tourists, not locals. The locals have a right to protect their monuments. Respect theirs, or else don’t expect them to respect your littering.
Throwing coins into fountains may be silly, but throwing keys into a river is another whole league of stupidity
At least the coins can be considered as a immediate revenue for the city and used for any purpose like health and infrastructure. Keys it cost money to melt down back into metals that can be used for any purpose.
@@jomarcentermjm It usually takes more money to clean up the fountains than they collect from the coins thrown in... People are sometimes so, so dumb...
@@zwerko If they're collecting 1.5m in coins yearly, i don't think they spend more than a couple hundred thousand on the whole cleanup enterprise for that catch.
@@SianaGearzthat's one fountain and it happens to be the most famous in the world
@@jomarcentermjm In some countries, it's actually illegal to throw money away like that. 🙂
Getting hated in TikTok is one of the best compliments in this decade. Hats off! Thank you for doing this.
Edit: Wow! Just rechecked my comment and found out that I have got 4.8K likes. I never received more than 5 before. Thanks guys and keep support Janek and Honza.
Second only to get hated on Reddit
Haha... yes! 😂
Genuinely yes. Its just ridiculous what brainrot is out there.
@@EvanG529 I have no tiktok experiance. Reddit however is extremely easy to get hated on. Just have an opinion that is fractionally different to the herd mentality and Boom, your hated.
It's filled with stupid muricans. So no wonder.
For all tourists:
TAKE only pictures
BRING HOME only memories
LEAVE only footprints behind
Tourist shops: please take something other than memories. We need to sell stuff
@@joevictor53honestly I don’t mind tourist shops. It keeps people employed with dumb tourist money and prevents people from taking their own ‘souvenirs’.
Tourist shops ruined the historical center of Amsterdam. I've seen the place change over the last 30 years and I can't stand being there anymore.
@@landdreugh9955 completely fair. I do think that’s partly on the city for not being proactive in zoning those areas for a better mix of commercial development.
That said, if you end up blocking tourist shops from setting up in touristy areas they will just go in the next closest neighborhoods, and affect those neighborhoods instead. That might be worse because those would be neighborhoods where locals actually live and work.
what if I bring home an authentic croissant
tiktok when pollution : 🤬🤬🤬
tiktok when pollution has feelings : 🥺🌸💅✨️
When TikTok: 🧠🤏
🧠💀
I do this at the park but it’s good lockpick testing experience. Idiots can’t see the fence is already sagging from their stupid locks and just keep adding more. Get a decent amount of money for the scrap too.
@@sparkyfox7956 "Nothing on one, a nice little click on two, I'm getting counter rotation on three..."
Now there’s a good reason to learn!
Are they all not just Masterlock?
It's not really good lockpicking experience since they are cheap padlocks that can opened with even a paperclip
@@3rdalbum You're using a generic love lock nr 22. It can be opened with a generic love lock nr 22.
Tourists when they can't destroy or deface precious historical sites: 🤬🤬🤬
@Elatenl Those rails are very old and can't hold the weight of all those locks. A bridge in France had a whole rail fall into the river due to love locks. The Czech government encourages people to remove them.
@@JA37ViggenDid the guy delete his reply? Damn it, wanted to reply to him as well.
@@thatonepole Indeed he did.
bigots when he thinks all people are the same based on their travel tendencies: (this comment)
@@JA37Viggen The sad part here is that despite the damage people still do it, will go to another bridge and put locks in it. It is so laughable the basis of their love is in these locks - sometimes I wonder how many of these couples who placed a lock are still together as there are no videos of couples going to back to check their locks.
Tiktok is the last platform where i would listen to peoples opinions. its the site where braincells go to die.
The whole platform collectively has less brain cells than a normal person.
@@MartintheTinman
Haters who delete their comments after getting replied to? a bunch of cowards? yeah, they're anomalous alright. call the SCP Foundation.
Funny, I made a comment about the TikTok collective having less brain cells than a normal person and the TikTok haters reported it. I must be right. Truth hurts I guess.
In China users are greeted with smart videos, upgrading their knowledge, their education. In western courntries, tik tok will show you stew peed videos to have our people being dumbR and dumbR every day. That is part of their plan to conquer the world.
@@MartintheTinman yes
In Bad Nauheim in Germany they found a creative solution, they put a huge heart of steel at the entrance of the bridge, so every couple has a place where they can put their love locks and the brigde isn't damaged
Yeah this is literally the solution. Give people an appropriate place to do it nearby so they stop defacing priceless historical sites.
I've seen them in few places here in Czech Republic too. Unfortunately, some people would rather deface a historical site anyway.
I'd rather just see a perma guard on duty who just throws fines everywhere then use the collected money from they dumbasses to repair and maintain the historical sights. Same like they fine people if they steal stones from certain beaches.
@@SoulessStranger just put the city cops there, they'll have fun putting out the fines
They should make the heart hinged on one end so some guy can just remove it, open up the heart, and dump all the locks out at once instead of having to cut them off one by one
I didn't make it through the first minute without laughing lmao 🤣
"But my 5 dollar lock, you took it off the bridge! Now there's nothing holding my relationship together, how could you do this!?"
If they stationed a police officer at these bridges, they would make so much money handing out tickets.
@@JacobthePoshPotato Yeah, take all the ticket inspectors away from the Furnicular, and reassign them to fining tourists for love locks
This isnt illegal
@@2xth Its not illegal to damage public property and litter?
@@JacobthePoshPotato Those who throw keys in the river do litter
@@2xth It's vandalism. Of course it's illegal.
Tik Tok may hate you,
but everyone in the right mind is proud of you
ak youtube
brother?
If TikTok hates you, you know, you have done something right. Keep up the good work. Love can not and should not be locked up and away.
Unless you say something racist (or similarly f[]ed up)
But otherwise, yeah you’re 100% right.
@@Aaa-vp6ug Right - no cheering for racism und such BS. To say it close to the video: Unchain love, not hate!
Your analogy is perfect, imagine leaving trash somewhere and demanding it not be picked up because it was sentimental for you. This is actually how hoarders minds work, they can't throw things away because they feel attached to the trash.
There is a subtle difference. Hoarders individually collect tons of trash that they usually keep to themselves, while this kind of people (thousands of them) leave behind their individual bit of trash that eventually piles up into tons of trash for others.
@@diegoferreiro9478outsourcing the hoarding mindset
When the honest guide guys first did this a couple years ago, some friends and I got in an "argument" where they took it one step further, asking "who are they to cut the locks off? It's not their job!". I had to ask them if all the good samaritans who have ever voluntarily picked up bags and bags of trash in cities and forests should be ashamed of what they did because it wasn't their job. Of course, my friends had no reply. People get attached and invested in the weirdest things.
@Chris-vg3ml They probably misunderstood/misapplied the wisdom "two wrongs don't make a right": It means that revenge is wrong and that just because someone else did a wrong is no defense for you doing the same or a similar wrong, but when the second wrong undoes or stops the damage of the first wrong, then two wrongs definitely DO make a right!
Though, personally I don't think removing private property that damages public property from public property is even wrong to begin with and if necessary it even justifies destroying the private property that was put there.
But many people, including those friends of yours, seem to disagree somehow... 🧐
@@stasi0238 Hivemind Hoarding
all the dates on the locks are from 2024, which makes it pretty clear that if you leave a lock, it won't last even a year before it's removed by the city.
Tourists are funny, they get mad at you for "acting like you own the city" but putting locks on random bridges isn't????
That "It's like an investment in the future" really got to me. Now I can't stop laughing.
Wonder if the "investment" is to pollute and destroy 😮
LOL me too! Investment in what exactly? 😅 the only investment is people paying taxes in Prague to cover the costs of cleaning up the city from this bs 🤬
losers
Friends: Why do you want to go to prague so badly?
Me: I wanne remove love locks as a good memory.
This can be a new tradition 😂
Love this!
Make it a new tradition! Remove locks and donate them to the metal recycling container of the city for a good use. 😀👍🏻
count me in
Same
Imagine getting mad at someone for cleaning up garbage?
I wish he wouldn’t call it garbage, it’s vandalism more than littering. Apart from the keys, perhaps.
@@CX103 I'd say your correct in calling it a form of vandalism
@@CX103it literally is garbage though? use your brain before you comment
If people like him didn't clean that shit up then there would be no space left for any new locks lol
@@CX103 Vandalism is damaging or destroying something, so no, it's littering/leaving behind garbage.
The accumulation of garbage can damage the bridge in the long term though.
We need Lockpicking Lawyer to go on a journey around the bridges of the world
It would probably get boring quite soon since most won't pose any challenge but a good idea for a short video, also to spread awareness :D
LPLs coworker McNallyOfficial actually has a short of him removing locks from a tower. Can recommend checking it out "Lock picking for cleaner parks" is the video title
The worst defacing by tourists I have ever seen seen is at Juliet's Balcony in Verona. First of all, Juliet didn't exist and this balcony obviously wasn't the one in a story. But in the archway next to the 'balcony' people have written on plasters and stuck it to the wall, it just looks like rubbish stuck on a wall, looks incredibly dirty and unhygienic. But because one person did it, now everyone does.. brainless.
Nasty... 😖
For Americans: “plaster” is a band-aid. And yes the image of tons of them stuck on top of each other on a wall seems disgusting.
The amount of privilege by tourists all around the world is so crazy
TikTok should remove comments. Seems like a toxic feature.
@@teranmm Non simplement: ban tiktok. The menace of tourism. The brainrot.
@@teranmmthey're no better here
@@MartintheTinman slightly less ignorant but yes
@@teranmm your opinion would change if you uploaded videos
After seeing the reactions you got from the TikTok hivemind a few months ago, I went and cleared locks off the bridge in downtown Chattanooga. Now me and my girl do it once a year, the city even made a post discouraging people from leaving them on the bridge.
👍 This is just great!
Thank you for being someone - the "someone" in "someone should do something about it".
Thank you. I had no idea this was a thing here in Tennessee. How stupid.
@@AprlmooreI think if you look hard enough in very touristy spots you’ll find somewhere that people do this, I’ve seen it in Paris, Prague, Amsterdam and where I live in the UK, notably always near water it seems for the throwing of the key
@@RishyRoller I've seen it in all those places, but I live in Tennessee, so that was a surprise to me.
Had the same happen in Paris in 2015. we have this incredibly famous bridge, Pont des Arts, where people would leave lovelocks, and the bridge actually was at risk of collapsing so they just removed everything. 45 tons of metal it was.And then they replaced the fences of the bridge with ones that you can't clip things on. (their shape doesn't allow it). They gave the locks away though, didn't threw them, to an artist named Cyprien Gaillard. He's been recycling them into his art pieces apparently.
Now people put them on the lampposts at each ends of the bridge, but there is much less room, and the city does regular cleanup as well.
45 TONS of metal is crazy
As a blacksmith i can tell you how much work is in this ironwork, there are many weeks of work there and a very good one, is a piece of history and for me is like some one puting locks in the Mona Lisa hahah.
Also like you say, the rust is killing that grill! That grill should appreciate as it is, a piece of art made of iron from profesionals and also a dying art that is getting bery difficult to keep and find. Many countries in Europe have problem doing restauration in this king of work
Thankfully, Czechia still has many skilled blacksmiths. Even at local city events, there is always at least one that presents the traditional way of blacksmithing - it is more for the show, sure, but it is still amazing to see and smell the coal, etc. And also historical fencing, love to see their armor and swords.
That is not an excuse to destroy these monuments though, or even just simple things such as historically made railings, etc. Tourists have no idea their actions are destroying these handcrafted pieces, it's sad.
Very true! It's the blacksmith equivalent of carving your name into a stone of a gothic church. The amount of work the masons put in them was incredible and it would be almost impossible to restore.
@@black_forest_ People like the seriously p### me off... Like who are they that they think they can destroy history like that?
Take nothing but pictures, leave nothing but footprints
The irony of people accusing you of acting like you own the city when locks themselves are symbols of ownership.
*Those people:* _"I may have had no right to put my lock there (vabdalism/damage of property), but that doesn't give you the right break it open to remove it, that's damage of property! Two wrongs don't make a right! 😭"_
Well, yes! In this case it absolutely makes a right, since the second wrong literally undoes or at least stops the damages caused by the first one!
@@LRM12o8 so then its not even two wrongs. Its just a wrong being corrected.
Padlocks are a symbol of security not ownership...
You pay taxes, so yes: the city belongs to you! Those locks destroyed already so many old, beautiful bridges. We need to stop this.
How can a city belong to someone if they don't work for the government? Yes people say "my city" but that doesn't mean they OWN the city.
@@automation7295 in a democracy, the government IS the people, weather they work for it or not (through taxes we all work for the government/our collective society). Ideally.
@@automation7295 The city doesn´t belong to government. The city belongs to its citizens. We are not living in totalitary state. Actualy even government belongs to citizens of the country here.
@@davidpelc You implying that citizens owns the entire city/district just because they live there?
@@automation7295 Citizens don´t own private properties in the city, but they own properties owned by city. Same like citizens of the country are co-owners of state properties.
tiktok is where intelligence goes to die.
And it's by design.
Of CCP @@TheRibbonRed
i already put a dislike on this video
Intelligence has to die off to even go to that 'service'... If you're on TikTok, it's already too late, my condolences.
"No it's not!!!! ... Hey Ron, it's my time to get some Galaxy gas ..... "
Your lock serves ZERO purpose! You should unlock it NOW! Your love memory is literally as valuable as a summer ant!
People on tiktok really is a different kind of breed, like the definition of the Dunning Kruger effect.
My city had a one-off event for Valentine's Day where you could buy a love lock and attach it to a specially-made heart shaped structure. They eventually took it "on tour" (probably just melted the whole thing down and recycled the materials). A good way for the city to make some money and deter people from attaching love locks on bridges.
I like this idea. Gimmicky but at least satisfies both ends of the spectrum. If people know what they’re in for (i.e., the locks will only be for Valentine’s Day and will be taken shortly thereafter), they would still probably go in for the fun of it.
Yeah, I have the same thing in my city, it's great.
Putting locks on the fence AND dropping keys in the river to prove their boyfriend/girlfriend won’t dump them?🤦🏾♀️
Red flag.
The same people probably blocking the roads because of the environment..but throwing a cheap metal key into a river is fine for them, if we dont think too much about how they travelled there.
@@geirmyrvagnes8718You throw away the key to somewhere from where it never can be retrieved, to symbolize that the bond between you can never be broken.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@Deckzwabber Obviously, but if someone bought a cheap Chinese lock to lock it where city workers would have to remove them several limes a year and dumped the key in the waterways to declare their love for me...
those stupid love locks are disrespectful to Prague's culture and history. More people should be removing them. Please don't stop,
The love locks are the new way of vandalism. It is disrespectful to all cities' culture and history - be it if you are in Paris, Prague or anywhere in the world. The locks scratches and damages, and throwing the keys into the river is litering.
What's also even the point of love locks?
@@automation7295 to rip off tourists
@@automation7295 None.
No in fact there is : proving your a sheep blindly following stew peed trends.
@@automation7295 never understood the purpose of them. It not like it prevent people from IDK filing a legal divorce.
I'm only 1:25 into the video and can't believe that someone took the time to email you. Do people understand how much weight those locks are and how much damage they cause to historical locations. If you need a so-called love lock to prove your love, you're doing love all wrong
No freaking way that they actually throw the key in the river. Wow wow wow
"As of you owned the city" he pays taxes for the city, he will own more of the city than those tourist ever will
We, me and my partner, visited Paris 20 years ago and he asked me to buy a cheap padlock. I didn't. But asked "why should I do this?" He showed me the famous bridge with love locks. Oh my God! It was the most stupid idea I've ever heard!
Do not allow the stupid tourist to pollute your beautiful Prague! Take locks away!
Did you change his mind, or dump him?
That bridge in Paris is where the whole love lock thing started afaik. Honest guide features it in a recent video. Paris had to replace the fences with glass panels to stop that
@@Gildaaaaaaas So I was right! Thank you for the info.
Reminds of a Seinfeld line.
Why don't you wanna do it?
Because it's so stupid.😂
`Take only memory, leave nothing but footprints`
He said "bring pictures". Hear that tourists? The bridge and river demand physical photos, preferably polaroids with adhesive backings. Please, only pictures of genitalia to declare your TRUE love.
Ive always known it as "take only photos, leave only footprints"
@@benaubrey2410me too
Love with your heart. Use your head for everything else
So is it okay that my shoes have wet paint on them?
The whole commercialized romance of lovelocks is pathetically mindless. And sadly most of the people who commit these senseless sentimental acts are exactly the kind of people with the attention spans of goldfish; TikTokkers who haven't got the ability to sit for ten minutes to watch a video and get educated. But thank YOU Janek (and Honza!) for fighting the good fight!
100%
Couldn't agree more! They're falling for a medieval superstition that was probably invented by a trickster who aimed to grab some gullible people's coins. 😂
@@LRM12o8 A trend that didn't exist when I was young, And I'm not even 1,000 years old.
Being hated by tiktokers should be the badge of honor.
I don’t understand why someone would put. A lock on a bridge instead of put a ring on their lady.
They say Reddit has toxic communities... but this seems so much worse. First there's people defending Cameron Coyle Herrin saying he's "cute", now we have this.
That Peter Griffin laugh at 0:26
😂😂😂
tiktok tourists = tourism that we don't need
It's such a pointless thing to do. Most of those people probably break up anyway so who cares?.
The lengths that people allow their emotions to control them confuses me.
Fr
I think the best comparison is graffiti
You can write your names on a beautiful wall and say it's a memory and it is.... but it's also defacing public spaces. We are not entitled to put ourselves onto the public space it's very self important
If your relationship depends on a lock you shouldnt call it "love"
Yeah, if something is to disapper the moment a lock is opened, that's not love, that's imprisonment! 😂
It's like those tattoos with the name of their boyfriend/girlfriend. While one is permanent and the other is easily removed, both are terrible ideas.
It's worth mentioning that memorials don't tend to stick around forever, they pop up to let people know and mourn and such and then at some point they're just gone and it's like it was never there to begin with, I understand the symbology behind love locks and it's a cute wasteful gimmick but putting something there fully expecting it to vanish one day is part of what makes the memory all the more special in a way, you know?
edit: I would unironically love to see one of those giant scrap yard magnet cranes waved around over the water just to see how many keys it could fish up, terrible idea mind you, who knows what other things are under there important or otherwise!
I think that Tiktok is rotting people's brains. The comments there really are childish, if not completely nonsensical, often coming from people who post their own content there. That's why I stick to Instagram.
While most short-form platforms do encourage quick engagement, that certain byte dance site actively encourage hostile behavior against anyone not in their "protected group". And that "group" changes on their whim.
meanwhile on instagram rot: 911, 9 million ways of racism, car crash, people getting killed in accidents, ocean videos, etc
Of course it's childish, it's literally from children.
@@GamesFromSpace I don't think that most of these comments are from children. As a U.S. citizen, a lot of these speaking and writing styles match up with the literacy rate of younger adults in their early 20's to 30's in the U.S.
@@TheRibbonRed I don't know, I see this on Facebook too, what you are describing. If not, more so. It's just among a different age group and different competing tribal interests. But the way the algorithm on Tiktok is structured in particular to push problematic content tailored to its users and push trash content to the top is the bigger problem for me. The algorithm also behaves differently for me in the U.S. vs. in Austria when I tested it. I actually got worse content and ads for my mental health and my mood pushed at me excessively in the U.S. more than I get it in Austria. It seems very deliberate, so I deleted the app.
Although they are not as common in the United States, i quite like going to bridges and cutting/picking love locks off of them. It is a great source of locks for a lockpicking hobbyist like myself. Magnet fishing for the keys is also a great idea to keep the rivers somewhat clear of stray keys. Thank you guys for bringing attention to this issue, i dont see many people talking about it :]
Oh my lord, you cannot throw things in the river, it's literally LITTERING.
I actually was able to see the moment a guy in uniform turned off a fountain in Las Vegas and proceeded to remove the coins from there 😂
I remember thinking "That makes sense. If you let them acummulate eventually there will be no water"
A Love Tree was made in my hometown. On which people could hang the locks of their love. Instead of hanging on the bridge. The tree stands next to the bridge and the river where many tourists hang out.
This is a really smart idea. A love forest/garden. Think about it.. the city buys up some land, renovates it with landscaping and makes plots for trees. People can buy a sapling to plant on a plot, and also buy locks. At the gate is a recycling bin you can put the keys in so they can get melted down, People could be briefed on this when they buy them.
That way, you get more jobs in the area, you stop people putting locks on architecture, you're actively planting trees which helps the environment, and any money from the locks or trees bought go right back to the city and its development.
@Ixarus6713 I'm very cynical about monoculture tree planting. High goals perhaps, maybe a permaculture garden or a genuine re-wilding lost forest effort. A lumber farm in miniature is rather meaningless in the grand scheme of things.
Maybe there should be a metal shredder instead of a river for the keys
The tourists will still throw the keys in the river instead of a special trash bin, because the action feels more permanent. They "throw away the key", that's the point for them. I can't think of a good alternative (well, except for people to stop doing this bullshit). Maybe you could instead somehow offer to melt down these keys right away, and the couple to watch them melt. It will be very expensive to maintain, so it won't work...
@@Ixarus6713I'm sure it's not a living tree. If it were, the locks would kill all the branches by pinching them off disastrously a few years later.
More likely it's a wrought iron sculpture of some sort.
I am embarrassed to say: Long, long, ago, when my budget was very tight, I sometimes took coins from fountains to afford lunches.
Alas, the poor couples whose marriages I ruined, just to afford a burrito.
Seriously, Janek, keep up the good work.
Don't feel bad, those were well earned lunches! You did good and honest work to get the money, you cleaned the well! 👍
Besides, I'm 100% convinced this is EXACTLY why some medieval trickster got the idea to tell people to throw coins in a well in the first place: so they could snatch them. 😂👍
Thanks for cleaning up the fountain. Think of it as the people being generous and donating their coins to someone who really needs it
If you need fountain money to eat, feel free to fish for it.
@@CZProtton That was then, when I was young. I now have no worries, and try to help others.
😂 I am proud to say, as students we used to make ends meet, by picking coins from the city fountains. Zero shame here!
Who cares what someone on TikTok says? They're the same people that complain they have bad credit but buy every stupid thing on the TikTok shop.
I agree with you about those locks. There are old fences in Croatia that had to be replaced because the padlocks destroyed them.
Great new tourist activity: magnet fishing? Free souvenirs! (Also thank you for cleaning up the bridge! Those locks really make a mess of things.)
That would actually be amazing. Tricking tourists into taking care of the planet 😊😊😊
Such a kill joy.
@@blazechaos212 womp womp, leave thirty more comments about how upset you are. I promise everyone cares a lot 👍🏾
@@TOKKO_dv ok bud 😁
@@blazechaos212let me leave my water bottles at your home then. Cry about it. Such a whiner
In Wieliczka the guide says: Don’t touch the sculptures.
One finger has humidity and may not damage it, but we have around one million visitors per year, if each visitor touches one time a part of the sculpture, it would be destroyed in a year.
You should mention that the statues are made from salt. So it's even dummer than pawing on other old statues.
The Roman Colosseum (and other places) has a problem with people chipping off pieces of the walls to take as souvenirs. No big deal, these people think, there's plenty of this stone here. But there are millions of such people. They would take the entire Colosseum apart for souvenirs. Unfortunately, we live among vandals who only know how to destroy. Stupidity and lack of education are a big problem for humanity.
The same when you go to car veteran museum, it's banned to touching them because that metal can be conserved in some condition and when milion people touch it with sweaty fingers, it could get more damaged.
There's all sorts of stuff like that. Caves for example with growing stalagmites ... some of those are tens of thousands of years or more old, and just a few people touching them can stop them from growing and discolor them forever.
Unless something explicitly says that touching is okay, just keep your hands to yourself and only look. It really can't be that difficult ...
@@Sp4mMe There must be always sign "do not touch" just for my father, because he would definitely touch it, I have to always keep him away from voltage when I am fixing something, because he would just touch it, that's what he is doing. 😀
If people's love is so entwined with a lock that they leave behind... it doesn't say much good about the strength of that love!
I never understood why people even put locks on any bridges? Love never last forever, people usually break up with each other after 1 - 2 years anyway,
So what even the point of putting love locks?
Geez those people are SO pressed over this? They are the ones that arent normal lmao.
Thanks man very proud of you! Ive always felt it was bad leaving all those locks there and throwing the keys in the water :/
The humanity... Thank you for your service man. I've been in Prague with my girlfriend and we were disgusted with the idiocy and entitlement of people thinking they can do this to a beautiful place like that...
TikTok is mostly just a dumpster. Never been to Prague, but I honestly would prefer to see the sights as they should be, without any trash left behind.
@1:52 imagine sending this email and not seeing the irony lol..
🗿🗿🗿
The Iron-y
I live in Prague and I am READY to help you guys to remove all of those trash!
I live here too and I would help rem9ve them
I don't live there but I would gladly book a weekend to Prague to help the city or Janek for a day.
I would too
Yes, I agree, love locks can be considered a form of littering, but at the same time, what is the difference between them and the crosses left at the "Hill of Crosses" in Lithuania? The Hill of Crosses itself originated from the very idea of bringing crosses to the hill.
Two completely different things mate.
Tik Tok is up there with “communities that you should (probably) never listen to”
Ah...to have the confidence and entitlement of a tourist who leaves their garbage on a historic spot in the world. This is no different than people who carved their names into National Parks in the USA or chipped off pieces of the Great Wall of China. It's DESTROYING something. The taunting of a schoolyard bully is actually good advice "take a picture, it'll last longer." But seriously. Take a picture.
Tik tok is full of dumb people. People thinking you’ll get fined for cleaning up garbage is hilarious
Guys listen, what If you put the lock, take a picture and then take it off, trow the keys in the bin and bring the lock with you home so you going to have a memory without destroying a piece of history
That’s a great idea like a souvenir, but the people doing this don’t care about it that much they only do it because everyone else does
This seems so much more meaningful to me…
Or just don't use some wasteful metaphor to define your relationship
@@Eyclonus at that point its less of a metaphor defining the relationship and more of a souvenir, and its not wasteful - you buy it, and in the end, you get a picture of a silly little thing and a souvenir to take home, all without defacing historic places or destroying bridges and fences, while supporting some shop locally
its more of a symbol at that point, one that isn't harmful and isn't to be taken too seriously, but is something to carry around to remind you of the trip and that moment with your partner - sure, there's better souvenirs, but its a cheap thing that you can do just about anywhere
you could also not judge people for things that don't harm anybody but mean something to them, like this alternate solution, and be glad that people at least have ideas that could slowly change what people are doing/how people are doing it
Me being a new enthusiast lockpick am salivating at all those free locks i could use to practice.
I knew the locks are dangerous, but geez, I did not expect the keys in the river. Dear god why people do this is beyond me.
You're doing an amazing job keeping the city nice and safe. Don't let these people, who surely have never even been to Prague, ruin your day.
Start a new charity - for 1 euro (cheaper than the love lock), they will plant a tree in a Czech forest that, like your love, is living and grows. Sign up with an email and get picture sent to you of the tree being planted. Perhaps even a sign with your name.
Sadly there is so many tree planting charity scams it would bw hard to convince people. Also trashing a famous place is easier (and !traditional").
We learned: TikTok people are the couples that dropped out of 8th grade and wear the matching "King" and "Queen" hoodies they bought at the mall
😂😂😂 the same people who use King and Queen unironically for each other as pet names🙄🙄
5:40 Yes the brass and stainless steel in the lock are causing galvanic corrosion where the mild steel fence is the anode, thus the most corroded part. People don't understand these things though and cause destruction.
The reason you are getting bad comments from TikTok, is because its either kids who watches it or adult which have a brain of a teenager.
In all my years of travels I have never once felt the inclination to leave my mark on a place. Janek, please keep being you 👏
Thank you for standing up against this poor behavior and disrespect to your city. I grew up in a tourist city and I now go to school in another tourist city near a national park and it drives me mad the things people do to some of our natural monuments. Don't cave in to the social shaming. these vandals should be ashamed of themselves.
Tik Tok users calling someone not normal,the irony😂😂
Most of those tiktok comments have the energy of "why would you pick up trash?"
Conclusion: People on TikTok is toxic and not to mention, stupid, avoid it if you don't have anything to do there.
Tik Tok where the users pretend to be the most accepting and social people while they only hate on others :) You did a great job!
If tiktok hates it means you're doing right
Surely a nice memory would be to take a photo on the bridge, by the water, by the wall…rather than a lock you will never see again, and odds are forget about it.
Sadly they take a picture with the lock in place. It would be better if they did this then removed the lock to take home with them, to place next to the picture.
The urabn explorers really got it down. "Take nothing but pictures, leave nothing but footsteps" can be applied to a lot of tourism
Thank you for all your efforts trying to make the world a better place.
Putting locks on all kinds of places is already dumb, but then throwing the keys into the river is so stupid it needs drastic fines on the spot.
0:53 The Rheinbruecke in Cologne is full of those. What is that for an memorial? These things hang in the way, people drive their scooters and bikes on the bridge. Then there are pedestrians and runners. Congrates, dear tourists, you have created a nuissance, a dangerous trap dangling in the sidewalk. The city of cologne wonders if the bridge is still stable enough to hold trains. Please do not leave your lock on public fixtures and buildings. As a tourist you are supposed to take photos and not leaving traces like those. I wonder, how would railway workers and the fire department evacuate an ICE on this bridge if they have to cut through locks first.
2:15 by the dead internet theory, most internet traffic is already non human or non organic. By change many of these users are not users. They could be AI. AI which was trained to insult people, like a soundboard.
The locks are not a problem on that bridge. None of the problems that other places have with the locks exists in Cologne.
The bridge can take the weight of six trains at once, so the locks don’t make a difference.
The fence they’re on is ugly anyway, so aesthetically they’re not an issue either. And it has been holding up for years.
As for traffic, the bridge is a tight spot anyway. Many of the pedestrians on it stop to enjoy the view and some stop to take a few looks at the locks. You can simply walk around them.
And finally, safety: in the event of an evacuation on the railway part of bridge, the passengers can simply walk off it on either side, towards Deutz or the main station. People aren’t supposed to move between the footpath and the tracks, that’s why the fence is there.
Make a "no locks" sign, remove every single one for a month every day.
Throwing something in the river should be fined.
Problem is who would pay for the cops standing around 24/7? Also I'll bet that the lock sellers right around the bridge would make the sign magically dissapear very quickly (to sell anything on the bridge you must be a registered artist and it must be your artwork, but just few meters away it's a wilderness).
There should be something called a common sense. Oh wait... 🤷♂️
@@richardaubrecht2822 The threat of cameras would discourage a few people
In Prague, the police will jump out of nowhere to give you a ticket if your transit pass isn't correct, but they don't bother standing around the bridges, allowing tourists to litter and deface public property at will. Makes a lot of sense. 😧
Difference between tourists who leave a 💩ton of money and regular inhabitants who "only" pay their taxes.
DUDE, YOU'RE AWESOME!
Also, if you need a love lock your relationship is already doomed...
If I placed a lovelock on a bridge and found out someone removed it I wouldn’t care less. It’s a show of love as a memory, I’m not gonna care if the lock is gone, the memory stays.
If people are so hung up on a lovelock being removed then they should have put it up in their home or something, expecting the lock to stay forever is silly.
People complaining that their locks were removed from a monument where they have nothing to do is like sprayers complaining that someone is washing graffiti over them.
I live in Prague and miss Prague from the nineties (and older), no embarrassing tourist rubbish.
Except sprayers don't complain if their graffiti is painted over (even though it was much more work to make than putting a lock on a fence), they're smarter and less entitled than that! 😂👍
I thought that's worth noting
@@LRM12o8 But I didn't write anywhere that the sprayers were complaining that someone painted her over their graffiti 😅🙈🤷♀
Love locks are dumb. If you're relying on a love lock to keep your partner, then it's likely not going to last.
People usually break up with each other after 1 - 2 years anyway, making love locks pointless.
As a student in Germany, I once visited Bremen and one of the fountains had many euro coins. I collected around 10 euro worth and i deposited in one of the nearby church just 10 meters away. People are just dumb.. I also clear out and collect deposit bottles in my area because it is beautiful with nature and 30 minutes from the city centre. There are no homeless people to collect in my area unlike city centre. Those who throw away those bottles and cans are the GenZ kids who are barely between teenage and adulthood. I also have to weekly collect plastic wrappers along with few other friends just to keep my area clean. What they are teaching in schools none knows.
*"People are just dumb"*
Great, I'm also dumb when I never threw any coin in the fountain? I would never do that. I also never pick up anything from a fountain, I usually don't give a shit about coins, especially Euros as stores in Denmark usually only accept Danish Krone (DDK).
*"Those who throw away those bottles and cans are the GenZ kids"*
How do you know it's only Gen Z kids? People born in 1996 or before do also throw bottles and cans on the ground. I sometimes also pick up bottle and/or cans.
Situation with garbage here in Czechia got much worse with more and more lodging houses for Romanian workers and ofcourse because of 2022, I guess you know what I mean, I don't want to trigger censoreship. In these countries, they just throw garbage out of window and they bring this culture here.
@@automation7295 You must be fun at parties
@@eily_b What? And why do you want me to pick up anything from a fountain?
@@Pidalina Czech person being racist like this seems particularily ironic
You literally said the same thing about Romanians that people here in Germany say about you
As someone who’s family is from the Czech Republic, I thank you ENDLESSLY for this act. Love locks are so ugly, and I’d rather see some place in its real state and not covered by tourist trap items.
If they really wanted something for an everlasting memory there, just take a picture of the two of you making a heart with you hands in that location. You got your place, you got your heart, and you left the place alone. Plus, no need to buy the love lock!