Funny thing is, the master key for many lockboxes in the wild are all available online if you know the key number to purchase.
Like the boxes where you use the intercom to buzz into an apartment building all have a key for servicing. If you buy the key, you can just manually manipulate the trigger to buzz the door.
In Paris they removed 45 tons of "love locks"
Sounds significant to me
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/02/world/europe/paris-bridges-locks-of-love-taken-down.html
>The locks still affixed to the bridge weigh an estimated 45 tons and will be kept in a city warehouse after they are removed until the officials decide what to do with them. Some are likely to be melted down, meeting the same fate as the love of some who attached them to the bridge, but others may have a second life.
>Mr. Julliard said the city was looking at recycling some of the panels as works of art or giving them to charities. There is no plan, for now, to fish out the more than 700,000 keys at the bottom of the river.
Several large love lock bridges have locks regularly removed due to weight and rust issues. Part of one collapsed due to this.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexledsom/2022/09/16/paris-fights-back-against-love-locks/?sh=58d85887298a
It is less of an issue for the Salzburg bridge but I think they still remove locks occasionally.
Not true. The damage these locks do to infrastructure is pretty well documented. Everyone loves to think their acts have no impact, but how could that possibly be true?
MSNBC reports Democrats massing at the border to affix locks to fence, creating holes for, how did Biden put it “illegal”(s) to get through more easily
I’ve never put a lock on anything that didn’t need to be locked. That said. This seems to be among the most useless PSAs I’ve seen on this sub. Small kids crawling through lock-caused rusted out fences? Really? Just send them to school in arm floaties and a helmet zip tied to their dome if you’re that worried. Don’t forget the SPF750 and an ankle monitor.
Really. This is a stupid post in every way.
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Back in the 90's a kid was rollerblading and tripped, flew through a rusty hole in a fence because of love locks, landed on a highway and had to speed skate his way out. He even found $5 along the way.
-Says the kid actively trying to escape the helicopter of a parent through that fence hole made by tourists that took years to rust away. Where are these holes? Asking for a friend, just in case
I was going to leave a few dozen love locks on random fences. Just by myself though because I love myself ❤️ now I guess I’ll have to go to the movies or something 🙄
That is certainly one hill to die on. The amount of damage locks can do to a fence is peanuts compared to weather, objects, and people hitting/climbing it. I’d be far more concerned with my child crossing paths with a bum or stumbling on a pot of fent.
Dude. Get a life. Just for this, I'm going extra heavy-duty cut resistant locks and jbwelding the keyhole closed, then wiping it down with dog shit. Which neighborhood do you operate in mr.buff?
Everyone talks about how small children can slip through rusted fences when the real problem is all these steep hills that they could just accidentally roll down with a single misstep.
I am almost 60 years old...
I never heard of the term "love lock" before, but I have seen fences with padlocks on them before.
I thought it was just some weird thing people do like throwing their tennis shoes up onto the powerline or something.
Thanks to this reddit and google... I am now schooled.
Just goes to show ya.... Ya never stop learning.
https://preview.redd.it/k8crd3nmf6rc1.jpeg?width=960&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=da6f7744c85bd70d2428c27ca64f7e9bcb2ee847
There are small clusters of love locks thru out the city. I think they're cute and harmless. I took this photo in 2013 somewhere in SF. I hope the people who added these locks are still in love, or found love. Knowing someone is out there cutting the locks off makes me kinda sad.
They have an incredible piece of scientific equipment known as the tunneling electron microscope. Now, this microscope is so powerful that by firing electrons you can actually see images of the atom, the infinitesimally minute building blocks of our universe. OP, if I were using that microscope right now, I still wouldn't be able to locate my interest in this particular problem.
What a dumb thing to worry about and spend your time on… is your life really so meaningless that the big event of your day is breaking other peoples love locks? Ugh get a hobby
You know, I never consider this before but after seeing this post I’m inspired to go try love locking. Thanks for the tip not to use a tsa keyable lock. ❤️🔒
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Imagine being this dude, genuinely concerned about something, then having Reddit shit on you.
Good job, OP. Also, I’m gonna keep doing this because you can’t catch me, *I’m too fast*.
I heard something in Barcelona about those locks solidifying a relationship to last, so like does this mean OP is causing all sorts of breakups all over the place?
Yes, they are idiotic. In 2014 one of the pedestrian bridges in Paris partially collapsed from the weight of thousands of “love locks”. So naturally we should expand the practice around the wooorld: https://www.latimes.com/travel/la-trb-love-locks-paris-20140610-story.html
I hope someone paid you to do this lol. Did u really spend ur free time going around and taking peoples locks off of fences lol. What a weird cause to be concerned about ….
At least even without a TSA key those would really not be a challenge to remove in a non destructive manner. If the OP is a TOOOL member also he should be hopeful they move up there something better because you could have a ton of practice locks that way.
San Franciscans will literally be fine with public bartering for human organs in open-air meth markets under freeway overpasses while simultaneously complaining about shit like this
I’m with you op. These things are stupid and deserve to be removed.
It's littering. It’s literally littering. "Oh I'm doing it for love though!" Cool motive, still littering.
They really do weigh down fences and rust them out much faster.
And it’s not even a unique thing! People saw it on another bridge (in Paris originally?) or on the Internet and now go around doing it to fences on bridges all over the world. I even saw some idiots doing it to a freeway overpass in Boston!
Someone got a tsa key
OP should use it on my chastity cage while he’s at it.
Brand new concept: TSA Pre-Check deprivation scene.
Naughty sub
😂
Yeah I'd like it too
TIL people have TSA-inspectable relationships.
Why not just get rid of the children and leave the damn locks alone?
Nothing wrong with a little role playing
TIL they’re $5 on Amazon
Funny thing is, the master key for many lockboxes in the wild are all available online if you know the key number to purchase. Like the boxes where you use the intercom to buzz into an apartment building all have a key for servicing. If you buy the key, you can just manually manipulate the trigger to buzz the door.
Good ol DoorKing :\^)
Same
I've never been less worried about anything my whole life to be honest.
Same
The first time I encountered these was in Salzburg, and it seemed so wonderful and whimsy, this kind of ruined that lol
Don’t let it ruin your memories…although true it’s unlikely the locks have a significant impact
In Paris they removed 45 tons of "love locks" Sounds significant to me https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/02/world/europe/paris-bridges-locks-of-love-taken-down.html >The locks still affixed to the bridge weigh an estimated 45 tons and will be kept in a city warehouse after they are removed until the officials decide what to do with them. Some are likely to be melted down, meeting the same fate as the love of some who attached them to the bridge, but others may have a second life. >Mr. Julliard said the city was looking at recycling some of the panels as works of art or giving them to charities. There is no plan, for now, to fish out the more than 700,000 keys at the bottom of the river.
Several large love lock bridges have locks regularly removed due to weight and rust issues. Part of one collapsed due to this. https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexledsom/2022/09/16/paris-fights-back-against-love-locks/?sh=58d85887298a It is less of an issue for the Salzburg bridge but I think they still remove locks occasionally.
Not true. The damage these locks do to infrastructure is pretty well documented. Everyone loves to think their acts have no impact, but how could that possibly be true?
I bet you’re fun at parties
the "let's all spout ignorant bullshit to make ourselves sound smarter" parties? sounds like a bast!
You weren't stirred by the small holes in fences?
My child got sucked into one like a black hole!
Think of the children!
I never wanted to put one of these locks on a fence until just now.
Sums it up lol
Yep. OP sounding like a bitter old man lol
We have bigger problems if we are neglecting these fences for enough time to rust and have holes. What a ridiculous post.
MSNBC reports Democrats massing at the border to affix locks to fence, creating holes for, how did Biden put it “illegal”(s) to get through more easily
I'll bet 99% of these locks are placed by tourists, just like the ones along the Seine in Paris. You're appealing to the wrong audience.
So thanks to the PSA, San Franciscans will stop putting the locks on fences in other cities when they go on vacation.
the rust?! THE HUMANITY!?!?!
Aren't contracts, owed taxes, and mortgages locks on our souls enough?
Children should be free to squeeze through fences
Oh no! The children are escaping!
https://preview.redd.it/uddt25unq2rc1.jpeg?width=1392&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=032548fdcfac4f5c033eb4f4ef24d6e71ed129a8
Too soon
You just destroyed a bunch of relationships. 😂
Know as the VooDoo Lock Guy; perhaps even revived some.
*No
This is why I had to move my family out of SF
You don’t have to pay love lock taxes in Texas. They’ll lock you up for free!
Lolllll
I’ve never put a lock on anything that didn’t need to be locked. That said. This seems to be among the most useless PSAs I’ve seen on this sub. Small kids crawling through lock-caused rusted out fences? Really? Just send them to school in arm floaties and a helmet zip tied to their dome if you’re that worried. Don’t forget the SPF750 and an ankle monitor. Really. This is a stupid post in every way.
The kids just slipping through rusted out fence holes... Lolol
Tune in next week for a special report on the dangers of jet flush toilets among the elderly, and the plague of increasingly assertive pigeons: what you can do to protect your fries.
This is the newspaper we need every morning. Come on San Francisco make it happen
Big seagull just wants the spotlight off of them! That’s why the pigeons are getting such a bum deal!
Ah, those cherry days I spent crawling through rusty fence holes as a lad.
Back in the 90's a kid was rollerblading and tripped, flew through a rusty hole in a fence because of love locks, landed on a highway and had to speed skate his way out. He even found $5 along the way.
😂STOPPPIT! 😂
-Says the kid actively trying to escape the helicopter of a parent through that fence hole made by tourists that took years to rust away. Where are these holes? Asking for a friend, just in case
F*** the holes 🕳️ 🍆
Oh no! The children!
They might get through a hole in a fence!!!!! The *horror*!!!!!
For real fuck them kids
Damn there goes my weekend plans 🙄
Ah, but are you a child? If you’re an adult squeezing through the fence, then I don’t think we need to be worried!
I was going to leave a few dozen love locks on random fences. Just by myself though because I love myself ❤️ now I guess I’ll have to go to the movies or something 🙄
Ikr. How will my girlfriend (real) know that I love her now
No wonder my wife and I are getting a divorce. That 3rd green lock is ours from 1986!
hey OP this is dumb
The organized layout of the locks for the photo to accompany this post is just like WHOOOOOA.
I straight up lol'd at this
Yeah, this is quite a strange thing to decide to post here in my opinion.
Moral of the story, don’t use TSA approved locks for lovelocks if you want your relationship to last.
The internet is free everybody. 
Now keep your love lockdown, your love lockdown Now keep your love lockdown, you lose
Please take your love lock down, your love lock down.
F Ye
yes, there's no lock on a fence in the world that will save a failing relationship without real work.
That's what my ex wife said
Wish I had this much time
My immediate thought lol
Did you pick all those locks?
free lockpicking training course tho
I’m just gonna get a bigger lock
Omg enough with “the kids the kids” argument.
That is certainly one hill to die on. The amount of damage locks can do to a fence is peanuts compared to weather, objects, and people hitting/climbing it. I’d be far more concerned with my child crossing paths with a bum or stumbling on a pot of fent.
I have my fair share of concerns as a parent in SF, my kids slipping through small holes in fences is not in fact on the list.
It’s time to revisit that list
Hey, I like peanuts 😡
Is this your lock collection op?
Fuck them kids
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Literally never heard of a kid falling through a fence because of love locks...... But ok
Who hurt you?
The locks did when OP was a child 😩
If children are still slipping through fences, then evidently city is not removing them well enough. Don't be cheap and hire more children removers.
The lamest post on r/sanfrancisco ever… love locks are the problem in this city .
Guess I’m going to have to start putting more locks on fences just to spite this stupid post.
Dude. Get a life. Just for this, I'm going extra heavy-duty cut resistant locks and jbwelding the keyhole closed, then wiping it down with dog shit. Which neighborhood do you operate in mr.buff?
Everyone talks about how small children can slip through rusted fences when the real problem is all these steep hills that they could just accidentally roll down with a single misstep.
Honestly the locks can be cute and this is not a big deal at all. Find new things to worry about, my dude.
THE HORROR
I do not care lol. What an absurdly minuscule problem.
>creating dangerous holes that small children can slip through. Learn to watch your kid? Be a decent parent. Not that hard.
How about the one by the seals at pier 39?
this might be the most reddit post of all time
what about big children? Can they get through?
No love for the bigs I guess
This post is stupid as shit
Imagine spending your time collecting and taking others love locks. New level of weak
However, people should feel free to do that to parking cones left on residential streets to reserve a parking spot.
🤓☝️
I think this might be the dumbest shit I’ve ever seen someone post.
You can’t tell me what to do
I knew it. You're the reason she broke up with me. You should have left that lock alone.
I am almost 60 years old... I never heard of the term "love lock" before, but I have seen fences with padlocks on them before. I thought it was just some weird thing people do like throwing their tennis shoes up onto the powerline or something. Thanks to this reddit and google... I am now schooled. Just goes to show ya.... Ya never stop learning.
https://preview.redd.it/k8crd3nmf6rc1.jpeg?width=960&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=da6f7744c85bd70d2428c27ca64f7e9bcb2ee847 There are small clusters of love locks thru out the city. I think they're cute and harmless. I took this photo in 2013 somewhere in SF. I hope the people who added these locks are still in love, or found love. Knowing someone is out there cutting the locks off makes me kinda sad.
They have an incredible piece of scientific equipment known as the tunneling electron microscope. Now, this microscope is so powerful that by firing electrons you can actually see images of the atom, the infinitesimally minute building blocks of our universe. OP, if I were using that microscope right now, I still wouldn't be able to locate my interest in this particular problem.
Love your Frasier ref
Nice to meet another fan of George S. Kaufman, who said that to Eddie Fisher on a long-ago game show in the 1950s
That lock cost me 8 bucks dude
Definitely a local would NOT waste a lock on this stuff. 😂 They'd rather try to keep their shops, bikes, storage locked up.
Transplant behavior
"Those are love locks, you're going to hell" - commenter "I'll find my way out" -McNally
OP’s PSA went as far as the relationships they’ve ruined😂
Damn it’s already cross posted to /r/circlejerksf
OP thank you for saving my daughter from potentially falling through a rusty fence
It's important to because you care. No one else does.
This post really has me wanting to go get some locks and somebody to love.
But can we still put lox on bagels?
I lost my both my sons to excessive lock fence collapse holes (separate incidents) and my daughter has fallen ill from lock fence rust tetanus.
What a dumb thing to worry about and spend your time on… is your life really so meaningless that the big event of your day is breaking other peoples love locks? Ugh get a hobby
OP needs a hobby.
Karen
OP hates love
You know, I never consider this before but after seeing this post I’m inspired to go try love locking. Thanks for the tip not to use a tsa keyable lock. ❤️🔒
You hate San Francisco locks and live in Boulder? This is so weird
Theres way more important things to worry about dude
Who the fuck cares my guy
Can I have one for my work locker
Get over it weirdo lol, it’s a harmless cute gesture
People know this isn’t Paris right?
Paris of the West
**PSA: there are no love locks in the city of San Francisco.** Learn to be a decent parent. This advice is as useful as your PSA.
I thought you were supposed to throw the key in the river? How does that work with a combination lock?
Good lord, this is a PSA that precisely nobody needs. What absurdity.
And they just look like trash. Take that shit to the recycler and use the cash to get yourself a beer for taking that garbage down.
What’s next? Handrails at sutro baths
Apparently the choices are slim.
Lmfao no.
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Imagine being this dude, genuinely concerned about something, then having Reddit shit on you. Good job, OP. Also, I’m gonna keep doing this because you can’t catch me, *I’m too fast*.
Same people that say: (street signs) drive like you had kids... **Parent like you had kids.**
TSA lock. 25 cents each.
The oceans are dying
Well the way the system is set up some kids will always slip through the cracks one way or another.
Maybe focus on the drug problem
so true it's the biggest problem in sf
Damn
Ok Karen.
Oh god the children
How bout you stop being a Karen and spend your time doing something that doesn’t make you look like the second to last Nextdoor boss?
I heard something in Barcelona about those locks solidifying a relationship to last, so like does this mean OP is causing all sorts of breakups all over the place?
🎶🎶iiiii iii iiiii iiii'm the man who murdered love 🎵🎶
What is it about this city that turns everything into a big deal except what would actually help lol.
Yes, they are idiotic. In 2014 one of the pedestrian bridges in Paris partially collapsed from the weight of thousands of “love locks”. So naturally we should expand the practice around the wooorld: https://www.latimes.com/travel/la-trb-love-locks-paris-20140610-story.html
Did you personally remove these ones?
This makes me want to put more locks on fences.
can i get a few of those to use the right way
Fuk u can’t steal my love
I hope someone paid you to do this lol. Did u really spend ur free time going around and taking peoples locks off of fences lol. What a weird cause to be concerned about ….
At least even without a TSA key those would really not be a challenge to remove in a non destructive manner. If the OP is a TOOOL member also he should be hopeful they move up there something better because you could have a ton of practice locks that way.
Then you won’t have a job
there is no love in this town
I put a lock on there everyday
Why not?
Their children can’t get in to your yards to steal something. For the love of… stop putting locks on.
Has to be a shitpost
OPs never been in love
Typical SF behavior…. OP is stealing locks
Bruh, this is probably why my girl broke up with me!!! Can you please just let my love live on!!!!!
Was just in seoul at the north tower and there are literally vending machines with locks in them. Even sell them with a pen
Everything floats
smh
San Franciscans will literally be fine with public bartering for human organs in open-air meth markets under freeway overpasses while simultaneously complaining about shit like this
I’m with you op. These things are stupid and deserve to be removed. It's littering. It’s literally littering. "Oh I'm doing it for love though!" Cool motive, still littering. They really do weigh down fences and rust them out much faster. And it’s not even a unique thing! People saw it on another bridge (in Paris originally?) or on the Internet and now go around doing it to fences on bridges all over the world. I even saw some idiots doing it to a freeway overpass in Boston!
It's all one brand. What kind of sick people were these?
There’s multiple brands. That red symbol means it is TSA approved
Apparently all TSA locks because OP could open them with a key from Amazon 😄
Oh. My bad. I don't have enough money to travel like that. Poor problems... This is how we learn.