Goldfish Racing…
– – Not to be confused with cat juggling, dwarf bowling, or submarine races, goldfish racing is one of those strange pseudo-sports activities that bars seem to be host to, alcohol making such things just that much more amusing.
In goldfish racing, cheap “feeder”-type goldfish normally sold to be fed to other pets are guided and encouraged by bar patrons to swim down water troughs the length and general width of plastic gutters with bottles and water guns. This practice has brought complaints from the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, who contend that the loud noises and bright lights used during the practice scare the bejesus out of the fish. In addition, some fish have reportedly been impaled with soda straws or even swallowed alive by the same notorious bar patrons.
PETA’s protests have caused one Tacoma, Washington bar to cancel its weekly goldfish races, while other similar establishments are still having fish start their engines…
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April 24, 2011 at 11:56 pm
They’d be no match for any fox driving a 2011 Honda Civic.
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April 25, 2011 at 1:05 am
Now if a fox drove a VW Fox, wouldn’t that be redundant?
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April 26, 2011 at 7:18 pm
That’s why he’d probably drive a WOLFberg VW.
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