Complaints end goldfish racing at Wash. state bar

[April 21, 2011]  TACOMA, Wash. (AP) -- The weekly gold fish races at a Tacoma bar are canceled after it received complaints from animal rights activists.

Every Tuesday night the Harmon Tap Room would feature races in which cheap feeder fish from a pet store were "raced" down two 8-foot troughs. Racers guided the fish with squirt bottles.

Bartender Joel Cummings told KIRO-FM the fish were cared for when they weren't racing but occasionally fish would die.

After complaints by phone and email, the Harmon Tap Room replaced goldfish racing with beer pong.

[Associated Press]

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