Diners at a Florida restaurant got a fishy surprise Monday when a huge aquarium burst open, sending the tanks water gushing across the room and even onto some customers.
T-Rex Café in the Downtown Disney entertainment complex in Walt Disney World turned from family-themed fun to outright chaos as the stream of gushing water from the circular tank forced workers to grab nets and empty trash cans in a desperate bid to save the aquarium fish.
As employees saved what they could, parents were forced to flee with their no-doubt distressed children from the inundated dinosaur-themed eatery.
‘There was a lot of commotion,’ diner Katie Wallace told the Orlando Sentinel. ‘The whole section just sort of went crazy.’
Wallace was among the handful of customers who were able to snap photos and grab a little video of the shocking incident with their phones as employees quickly ushered them out.
‘The staff — they were doing the best job that they could,’ Wallace said. ‘It was craziness. Just kind of people freaking out. It's not something that you see very often. How do you respond to that?’
Workers did what they could to save the many fish that called the tank home. And Wallace believes that with the help of nets, water-filled trash cans, and quick thinking they were able to save all the poor creatures.
‘About four waiters climbed in and started scooping up the fish. It was chaos. Everyone in our section had to leave,’ wrote witness Michael Pappas on his Facebook page.
But not everyone went unscathed.
'We were sitting about 20-feet away,' Wallace told WGHP. 'The people sitting at the table next to it did get wet…I don’t know how they could have avoided it.'
The restaurant remained open outside the affected area as workers cleaned up the mess.
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