Knifecrime Island Pet Shop Owner Gets Electronic Bracelet After Underage Goldfish Sting

A pet store owner in Britain has been sentenced to home confinement during evening hours after selling a pet-in this case, a goldfish-to an unaccompanied 15-year-old boy. (You have to be 16 before you are allowed to buy a pet without an adult.) The woman claims she thought the lad appeared to be of legal age, but this isn’t the first time she’s been in trouble with the law.

Officials sent the boy in to make a test purchase after receiving a complaint the shop had sold a gerbil to a 14-year-old girl with learning difficulties, who later dropped it into a cup of coffee.

Investigators also discovered a distressed cockatiel in the shop, which, “when examined, was found to have a broken leg and eye problem.”