Do Not Mess With Fish 228,

and you thought fish were fun!

 well bosses at Japan’s Space World theme park did when they put 5,000 fish, crabs and other shellfish, which of course were already dead in the ice of its newest skating rink, aptly-named ‘Freezing Port–Ice Museum’,

 on November 12, Space World, a popular theme park in the city of Kitakyushu, south-west Japan, opened its newest attraction, as well as the frozen fish, crabs and various other shellfish, it also featured enlarged photos of larger marine creatures, like stingrays and sharks,

all went swimmingly well for the first two weeks, but things went square shaped after the ice rink received coverage on a local TV station, on November 26, inquiries and criticism started pouring in, and the Space World Facebook page was bombarded with negative comments, people all over Japan expressed their outrage about the unique ice rink, with most of them calling it cruel and immoral, apparently, everyone assumed that the fish had been frozen alive to create the new attraction, which Space World insists is completely false. “We purchased fish hauled and sold dead at a market through a dealer,” one official said. “Misunderstanding spread on the Internet that the fish were frozen alive, but that was not the case. We should have explained more.”

by November 27, faced with countless messages about their controversial skating rink, Space World had decided that the only sensible thing to do was to shut down the attraction just two weeks after its inauguration. In an official statement, park officials claimed that Freezing Port was supposed to allow visitors to “have a sense of sliding on the sea,” but also apologised for those who found the ice rink “uncomfortable”. “We deeply apologise to people who felt uncomfortable about the Ice Aquarium event,” the announcement stated. “As a result, we have stopped the event from today.” alleged rumours that another ice rink had the same idea but to use dolphins and whales instead of fish appears to be unfounded.