According to USAToday, tuesday nights used to be especially popular at the Harmon Tap Room in Tacoma, Wash. --- goldfish racing. No more. After protests from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, the "cheap feeder fish" have been given the hook, replaced by a more popular bar game: beer pong, the AP informs us (channeling KIRO-FM).
How, you might wonder, do goldfish race? Put them in two, 8-foot-long plastic gutters, then have patrons use squirt guns, squirt bottles or straws to propel the unwitting contestants to the finish.
"We'd use the little 10-cent feeder fish that would normally be fed to pets," bar owner Pat Nagle told the Seattle Weekly. "It was really, really popular. But we started getting all kinds of calls and e-mails from PETA people. It got to the point where Tuesday nights I'd get 60 or 70 e-mails. We went round and round about closing it. But eventually we felt we had to…..”
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2011/04/peta-sinks-goldfish-racing-at-wash-bar/1
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