Space World in Kitakyushu, Japan Nominated For The Global Idiot Award Example
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A Japanese theme park thought it was a good idea to freeze 5,000 dead fish in a skating rink
| Nominee: | Space World in Kitakyushu, Japan |
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| Why this nomination? | A disrespect of life. | ||||||||||
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| Description: | An amusement park in southwestern Japan has closed its ice-skating rink after public outrage over the rink's key feature: 5,000 dead fish frozen into the ice itself. Space World, a theme park in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka prefecture, had opened its new attraction Nov. 12. The rink was packed with 25 types of fish purchased from the city's fish market, according to Mainichi Shimbun. Photos of whale sharks and rays also were placed into the ice, the newspaper reported. Photos of the rink that were previously on the park's Facebook page showed that some of the fish had been embedded with their mouths agape and their heads partially protruding from the ice. Others were laid out in circular and arrow patterns. One “school” of fish spelled out the word 'hello,' according to Britain's Guardian newspaper. “We had intended to give the feel of the ocean to this ice skating rink, with the image of fish swimming in the ocean,” Space World general manager Toshimi T |
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/11/28/a-japanese-theme-park-thought-it-was-a-good-idea-to-freeze-5000-dead-fish-in-a-skating-rink/?utm_term=.0e0575b9ac69 |
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| Publication/Media Source: | The Washington Post | ||||||||||
| Author: | By Amy B Wang | ||||||||||
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| Publication Date: | 0000-00-00 00:00:00 | ||||||||||
| Tags: | skaters on the rink at space world in kitakyushu w | ||||||||||
| Nominator: | IAStaff | ||||||||||
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| Submission Date | Nov 29, 2016 (Edited May 02, 2017) |
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