Love Locks

Because of my Maine connection (see many posts from past summers in this regard), I get their great little monthly magazine, Down East. Recently, they proudly showed off their (apparently singular) location of love padlocks.

Most of my fellow curmudgeons went "Whaa?" Yes, dear readers, attaching a padlock on a bridge is a thing that apparently attests a couple's love. It is such a big thing that all the numbskulls who have done it at the Pont des Arts pedestrian bridge in Paris have caused the bridge walls to start to collapse from the sheer weight of them.

Portland, Maine clearly isn't this far gone yet, but they better keep an eye on things - they could yet be attacked by hoards of roving lover idiots who succeed in destroying the very thing they were attempting to enshrine.