Japanese amusement park froze 5,000 fish in its ice rink

2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55

A Japanese amusement park froze 5,000 fish in the ice on an ice rink, posting ads on its Facebook page, positioning the entertainment as "the first in the world" and drawing people in with the slogan "I'm drowning and choking." However, this bold move did not find much public response, and the skating rink was closed this Sunday due to heavy harassment from media and visitors.

Not only fish were frozen into the ice, but also crabs, jellyfish and other inhabitants of the sea. The attraction was named "The Frozen Port" and has become one of the main attractions in the Japanese theme park Space World. As park manager Toshimi Takeda said on Monday after the attraction closed, the problems began after the skating rink was shown on local television. “We were shocked by this reaction to the ice rink, as it had already been open for two weeks and the number of visitors was unprecedented,” says Takeda. - "We had different opinions about this attraction, but we did not expect such a reaction. We apologize for this project, and therefore decided to close the rink immediately after the scandal."

And the scandal broke out quite recently, on Saturday. After the news of the skating rink was released, the media immediately responded to this unusual approach to attracting viewers. "Is it really that much fun to roll over the bodies of dead animals?" asks the local Relief Pain Animals community on Facebook. "It's outrageous that this kind of idea came to a Japanese person at all. From an educational standpoint, this is the worst attraction you can think of."

"It terribly upsets me, - write in the comments on the page of this attraction. - Do you seriously think that children like to walk on such ice? You simply do not have a soul, how could you even have conceived such a thing?"

Takeda said that the theme park authorities decided to unfreeze the ice rink and extract all the fish. Subsequently, these fish are most likely used as fertilizer. The manager stressed that the park did not kill the animals, but bought the fish already dead at the local fish market. All Facebook pages of the attraction have also been removed.

But relatively recently, such an attitude not only to animals, even to people would not shock anyone - just remember the human zoos, which we talked about in our review " Shameful pages of history."