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20th December 2016
12:18am GMT
Well, this is just disgusting.
Space World, a theme park in Japan, froze 5,000 sea creatures into a skating rink for decoration.
Unsurprisingly, they were forced to close the park on Sunday after extreme public backlash.
According to CNN, thousands of fish, crabs and other shellfish were embedded in the ice as part of a special winter attraction called "Freezing Port".
Space World have apologised for making anyone "uncomfortable" with the frozen fish. Uncomfortable? That's putting it lightly.
Space World posted images of the frozen creatures on its official Facebook site with captions including "I am d... d... drowning, s ... s... suffocating"...
"We were shocked to hear the reaction as the ice skate rink was very popular since it opened two weeks ago, we had an unprecedented number of visitors," said Space World's manager, Toshimi Takeda.
He defended their poor taste in decorations by adding that the fish were purchased at a local fish market, and were dead before they were frozen. Because that justifies it.
Japan's Space World Park closed its skating rink, after the public objected to 5,000 fish frozen beneath the surface as an extra attraction" pic.twitter.com/I5qlPQjy2x
— Sam (@samgerrits) November 28, 2016
Thousands of dead fish used to spell out 'Hello' welcoming guests to 'Space World'. Humans are appalling! https://t.co/xEaoXpKfBe #japan
— Greg Ducayne (@DucayneAU) November 28, 2016
This is messed up. Japan's 'Space World' apologizes for freezing 5,000 fish in skating rink - CNN https://t.co/GND5ahnF14
— JayZ (@JayZammie) November 28, 2016
Space World, an amusement park in Japan, froze 5,000 fish into its ice skating rink. They apologize. https://t.co/NFbEJpcsP1 pic.twitter.com/4vMjOcCvVH
— Christopher D. Shea (@iamcdshea) November 28, 2016
Takeda told CNN the park would unfreeze the skate rink to remove the fish, hold an "appropriate religious service" and then reuse them as fertilizer.
Appropriate religious service? Right.
Image credits: Space World
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