Goon of the Week Award

What, does he think they come off the seabed in cans and plastic wrapping?

bb1 wrote:What, does he think they come off the seabed in cans and plastic wrapping?

You mean they don't? Oh, my whole life is ruined, disillusioned of Tunbridge Wells.com!!!!

The second part is even funnier:

http://uk.travel.yahoo.com/p-promo-3361576

Mr Lawson tried to explain that fishermen depended on the daily catch for their livelihoods and that it was a common site on a working quayside.

“He was very upset that he had come across the boxes of fish and thought it was entirely inappropriate and not a good sight or smell,” he said.

“I explained the workings of the harbour and that it was a working quay and that while it was not ideal, sometimes this happened.

“But he didn’t calm down, he went to the local newspaper and then when they printed his complaints, he came back to me to see what I had to say.”

Mr Lawson admitted that it was quite unusual to have a working harbour with public access.

But he added: “This is generally considered an asset because visitors can get a really good feel for how the industry works, they can enjoy the whole experience.

"I told this chap that you shouldn't take your children to a harbour if that is how they react to dead fish."

Mr Copp is understood to have been on a two-week family holiday in the popular north Devon tourist resort when he lodged his complaint, which attracted disbelief from locals.

One said: “Ridiculous. Does he think all his food comes in packets? What did he expect to see at a working harbour?”

Tony Rutherford, the managing director of Bideford Fisheries said "Seeing us in action is often considered a tourist attraction in these parts."


"I told this chap that you shouldn't take your children to a harbour if that is how they react to dead fish."

He's got himself in the Mail now:

Scott Wharton, 42, who owns The Lady of Lundy trawler which particularly irked Mr Cobb also gave his response.
Mr Wharton told the Daily Telegraph: 'It's pretty obvious this bloke's a bit of an idiot.
'It's ludicrous to come to a fishing harbour and the complain about the fish. If you don't want to see dead animals, don't go to a working quay


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2034223/Devon-port-Holidaymaker-lodges-official-complaint-smell-fish-upset-children.html#ixzz1XDTcEk25

Only a bit of an idiot? 100% idiot, I would have thought.

This has to be a p*ss-take comment:

This man has an excellent point. What if his family are Vegans then they would find the sight of dead fish extremely distressing. Imagine if you went to a farm on holiday and you found the place full of dead sheep or cows you would also find it very distressing. If fish are caught then they need to be taken to a slaughter house and killed there out of sight of anybody. It's only fair on the fish and on people who are Vegans.
- Siobahn, Dublin, Ireland, 6/9/2011 19:32


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2034223/Devon-port-Holidaymaker-lodges-official-complaint-smell-fish-upset-children.html#ixzz1XDUuJRdc

Jayelles wrote:It is unreal. Truly. I love Americans but I have a host of amusing stories about things American tourists said from my student days as a tour guide. This really takes the biscuit though. I have nothing to beat it lol

Sure would like to read your stories sometime.

He doubtless thought that Captain Birdseye hauls breaded fishfingers out of the water with a folksy fishing rod, and pops them straight in the packet while cute kiddies dance around.

I suppose these people do know that fish fingers are made of dead fish?

Plymouth has a Fish Quay where fishing boats land Dead Fish. In fact the general public can go and buy said Dead Fish. The said Dead Fish die because they are pulled from the water. This makes them die.

However, these particular Dead Fish could have come from a boat that actually exceeded the EU Quota by a couple of kilos or ten. Easily done because it is not possible to weigh this big net when it comes out of the water. This excess of quota has to be landed with all of the proper quota, separated, weighed, logged, and then The Captain of the boat gets told off, for some inexplicable reason. Then the said Dead Fish are chucked back into the previously mentioned water. They are not allowed to sell it, or even give it away to the Starving Millions we keep hearing about. Unfortunately this does not revive the said Dead fish. This is why you often see Dead Fish floating about in Harbours, and lots of Sea Gulls flying around and crapping on the heads of the aforementioned general public.

Fish Quays are not a good place to go if you don't want to get crapped on from a great height. And you certainly won't get any free fish.. I know because I've tried.