In yet more “people doing cooked things with animals” news, a Japanese theme park has closed a skating rink made of frozen fish after, surprisingly, people online did not care for the idea.
Space World, located in the south-western Japanese city of Kitakyushu, built the controversial, strangely beautiful rink by freezing about 5,000 dead fish into the ice alongside enlarged photographs of rays and whale sharks.
The fish also spelt out “hello” in Japanese and formed a helpful arrow for skaters to follow:
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While the rink was meant to stay open until spring, the park’s Facebook page was inundated with complaints following a local TV report and management announced via the Japan Times they would close the display on Sunday:
“We deeply apologise to people who felt uncomfortable about the Ice Aquarium event.“As a result, we have stopped the event from today.”
The park will now unfreeze the rink, hold a memorial service for the fish, and then turn them into fertiliser, because the world is indeed chaos and nothing you do matters.
A spokesperson has also stressed that the fish were already dead when purchased from a local market, even though misunderstandings emerged that they were frozen alive.
So honestly, while the display is extremely morbid and yes, deeply weird, it probably doesn’t measure up to, say, plans to kill 333 minke whales in Antarctica. Or, closer to home, live exports.
Check out the vid below and tell me that you wouldn’t want to, as the website once dared us, “glide across the sea.”
Source: The Guardian.
Photo: Twitter.
