tramps like us

kildarestreet:

Hapenny Bridge: A whole load of Padlocks are locked onto the arches of the Bridge. Some of them have messages of love written on them, some even colored red and have love hearts. Puzzling several people walking by, I dig for info.

Found out that it started out as an act of love by some romantics, the locks representing their relationship with their loved one, and that if it ever ends they go back and retrieve it. The rest I’d say are randomers leaving their mark. Apparently, there’s a bridge in Rome, Ponte Milvio, (and some other bridges in Paris and parts of Holland) that occasionally has this same, strange phenomenon, so this is evidence of a traveling trend. I’d like to think this was genuine symbolism and not just knackers or tourists being assholes.

Someone else’s opinion was that it was a James Joyce reference to being “locked,” but I doubt the perps were so witty.

People need to stop this bullshit, the Ha’penny bridge is pretty and padlocks aren’t. Go do it on the crappy bland Millennium one instead.