Today, I turn my attention to the park district of Glenview, Illinois, just north and west of Chicago.

The park district has sponsored "Goldfish Day" on the last day of the swimming season each summer (this year that is August 15th according to Glenview) at their Roosevelt Pool.

Here's how it works-the park district releases hundreds of fish into the swimming pool. Children enter the pool and are permitted to keep all the fish they catch.

This year, a 12 year-old spoil sport named Kevin Pratt suggested that the district dump hundreds of plastic fish into the pool. Kids could then redeem the plastic fish for real fish.

Here's a Glenview community newsletter website from last year discussing the situation:

Each year, Glenview's park district hosts Goldfish Day – releasing hundreds of tiny fish into the chlorinated blue yonder of Roosevelt Pool and allowing local kids the thrill of catching and taking them home. Alas, resident Sharon Pratt discovered that sorrow can ensue. "We just finished burying our 16 goldfish caught by my kids at Roosevelt Pool," she wrote to the Glenview Announcements.

well, yeah. I guess swimming in chlorinated water and then being grabbed by excited children isn't the greatest thing for the fish.

Instead the park district is releasing the fish into 100-gallon tanks and letting the kids catch them there. The Tribune quotes Glenview Park District superintendent of leisure services, Bob Quill

"I think it is unfortunate," Quill said. "Certainly the event won't have the same flavor or excitement." adding, "I think there will be a lot of disappointed kids in Glenview."

In other evidence-that-the-Glenview-park-district-is-staffed-by-morons this community newspaper's site notes that the park had to cancel its "Goodbye To Roosevelt Pool" party due to poor ticket sales. The 65 year-old pool is being demolished at the end of the summer to make way for a new facility.

Diane Vragel, manager of marketing and communications at the park district, was unable to determine if the $75 ticket price accounted for paltry sales