All right, I DID take two pictures of the fish being hurled at the Pike Place Fish market. Somehow, these two photos got exposed in the same location on my film, creating an unusable double image—seen in the next photo. Hence, my original album just had this digital post card instead. Oh well. It was still fun and amusing to watch. I'd first seen this spectacle one day while flipping channels on the tube. Stopped on MTV to find out why they were showing images of fish being thrown around. Turns out, it was an episode of The Real World: Seattle. Some of the cast were lending (or attempting to lend) a hand with the work. It was very cool to find this same location I'd seen on MTV. Here's what happens: customers inspect the fish and other seafood in ice-packed cases on the lower, front section. Workers are down there to help. When you make a selection to purchase, the worker picks up whatever you chose, engages in no small amount of hollering in some Asian language which results in an equally unintelligible, albeit loud, reply. Your merchandise is then hurled by the worker from the lower level to the people on the upper deck who catch the seafood and box it up for you to take with you. It's worth the trip to Seattle just to see this!
