Shop forced to close after pasting 'googly eyes' on fish
A shop in Kuwait has been shut down after it was discovered that it tricked customers into buying rotten fish.
Shoppers in Kuwait will now be looking at any meat or fish products very carefully before making a purchase.
An unidentified fish shop has had to shut down after owners were caught sticking plastic "googly eyes" onto fish in order to create the illusion of a fresh catch.
Kuwaiti police has shut down a fish store that was sticking googly eyes on fish to make them appear more fresh than they are. :-)
— Mohamed El Dahshan (@eldahshan) September 1, 2018
via Al Bayan newspaper, @bayan_kw. pic.twitter.com/CcPa73fDQh
It is not known how long the shop had been running the ploy, but it is difficult to believe that it would have lasted very long as the photos "showed the eye slipping off the fish’s face, clearly showing a much more yellow eye beneath".
The incident also raises questions: do people frequenting the shop not know what a plastic eye looks like, or that the best way to tell the freshness of a fish is to look at its (real) eyes?
The intersection of people who know enough about fish to look at their eyes to judge freshness and people who would be tricked by googly eyes can't possibly be very large?
— Old School Gamer (@OldSchoolGamerP) September 1, 2018
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No one who fell for the fish shop's tricks has spoken up yet. Meanwhile, the story has inspired people to wade through as many bad fishing puns as possible:
This gave me a REEL good laugh. If u come up w/more fish puns
— Hasan Shanawani حسن الشنواني (@hshanawani) September 1, 2018
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Well this certainly looks fishy. I hope they go to court and are found gill-ty. https://t.co/aB3fh871WE
— M’BlockU (@rodimusprime) September 1, 2018
It’s sad to see y’all floundering about trying to come up with puns.
— DLYPGYAW (@odg78) September 1, 2018
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