Claw machine fish tank

[Rusty_Blazenhoff]

Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2018/06/19/claw-machine-fish-tank.html

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[Deborah_Caruso]

Belongs in a Sushi restaurant.

[Mangochin]

I remember seeing that for spiny lobsters in a restaurant in South Beach Miami. If you snagged one, the restaurant cooked it for free for you.

[cb78]

yeah, a few places have the lobster version here in South Florida. Mr Moe’s a bar in Coconut Grove was a popular machine that my friend ‘won’ a few times.

[kbert]

aweigh
Google it before committing to print…

[heligo]

@Rusty_Blazenhoff

some say just keeping fish in captivity isn’t cool

Really? We’re doing this now?

[karl_jones]

Scale up the fun to human proportions with a Human Claw Machine:

[FGD135]

[vonbobo]

@heligo

Really? We’re doing this now?

Yup. Cages suck, even for animals.

[heligo]

@vonbobo

@heligo

Really? We’re doing this now?

Yup. Cages suck, even for animals.

They’re fish

[vonbobo]

@heligo

They’re fish

Im sure that doesnt stop you from having empathy.

[cjankelson]

So fill it with mechanical fish. All problems solved.

[sockdoll]

@cjankelson

So fill it with mechanical fish. All problems solved.

Or better yet, make it a candy-grabbing claw machine!

https://www.google.com/search?q=chocolat+poisson+d’avril&tbm=isch

[GulliverFoyle]

@Rusty_Blazenhoff

While an actual Claw Machine Fish Tank would be cruel and unethical

If it worked as well as an actual claw machine, fish would outlive all other livestock.

[some_guy]

I don’t see any issue with keeping fish in captivity, but having a bird in a cage has always bothered me.

Fish tanks are really just pieces of semi-interactive art, the fish aren’t “pets” in the same way as other animals, they don’t care about the humans walking around on the other side of the glass.