Fair Fish

Just got back from a trip to Southport Fair with T - costly business!! T went on a load of those things where you have to hook a duck/frog/pig etc and you win a prize, and was surprised to see that one of the prizes on offer were goldfish!

I thought that practice had died out a long time ago, but there were loads of baby goldfish swimming round in a large tub, ready for kids to pick their choice I suppose I should be thankful that at least they had an air pipe blowing bubbles into the tub to give them a bit of oxygen, but I dread to think what the water quality was like!

A little lad chose one of the fish as his prize, and the woman running the stall filled the plastic bag for it from the table where the ducks/frogs/pigs etc were swimming round and God knows how old that water was .

sounds about right for a fair diana lets just hope they all got won


dekker

Doubt it dekks, there were hundreds of them! Just didn't know this was still common practice these days - I know when I was a kid I used to love trying to win a goldfish (to put in a bowl ), but thought things had progressed a bit sonce then.

well we can only hope they all stay well - fingers crossed


dekker

Report it to the local RSPCA and Trading Standard and Council - im sure at least one of those lot will be unhappy to hear about fish as prizes.

That's just shocking...

Thankfully, it was never standard practice over here but I'm amazed that people are still allowed to do that. It's almost guaranteed that 90% of those goldfish will probably be dead by the end of the month...

All my family are firmly against this - if I find out a fair nr to me is doing this - i'll go and buy ALL the fish from them.

It will only save a tiny number but its better than doing nothing.

I remember as a kid one fair was giving away hamsters