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Title: Lobster Lovers
Post by: Ben on December 02, 2014, 11:54:43 PM
No, not the kind of people who love to eat lobsters.

Canadian lobsters have apparently been showing up in England's fisheries. Upon investigation, it appears they're arriving via cruise ship passengers who are animal lovers buying up the live lobsters from the onboard restaurants and "releasing" them into the ocean, sometimes with rubber bands still around their claws.

Besides the whole contamination of foreign species, I wonder how many of the "freed" lobsters simply died because they were dropped somewhere off the continental shelf?

http://www.foxnews.com/travel/2014/12/02/cruise-ship-diners-may-throwing-lobsters-overboard-to-save-animals/?intcmp=HPBucket
Title: Re: Lobster Lovers
Post by: zxcvbob on December 03, 2014, 12:03:22 AM
I thought maybe you mean "lovers" in the other sense of the word.  (although I couldn't figure out how that would work...)
Title: Re: Lobster Lovers
Post by: Balog on December 03, 2014, 12:09:54 AM
I thought maybe you mean "lovers" in the other sense of the word.  (although I couldn't figure out how that would work...)

http://www.armedpolitesociety.com/index.php?topic=46486.0
Title: Re: Lobster Lovers
Post by: vaskidmark on December 03, 2014, 12:11:45 AM
... buying up the live lobsters from the onboard restaurants and "releasing" them into the ocean, sometimes with rubber bands still around their claws.  ....

Just like meat is grown in the back rooms of the grocery store, these idjits probably think that lobsters have rubber bands on their claws in the wild.

What makes me dispair is that so many of them will manage to evade natural selection and breed.

stay safe.
Title: Re: Lobster Lovers
Post by: 230RN on December 03, 2014, 06:43:45 AM
Just like meat is grown in the back rooms of the grocery store, these idjits probably think that lobsters have rubber bands on their claws in the wild.

What makes me despair is that so many of them will manage to evade natural selection and breed.

stay safe.
To avoid that breeding problem with those idjits, maybe we could put rubber bands around their...

... ummm, never mind. 

Terry
Title: Re: Lobster Lovers
Post by: BlueStarLizzard on December 03, 2014, 07:28:18 AM
WHO THE *expletive deleted*ck THROWS A PERFECTLY GOOD LOBSTER BACK IN THE OCEAN?

Damn savages.
Title: Re: Lobster Lovers
Post by: wmenorr67 on December 03, 2014, 09:59:50 AM
WHO THE *expletive deleted*ck THROWS A PERFECTLY GOOD LOBSTER BACK IN THE OCEAN?

Damn savages.



Tree hugging hippy freaks.
Title: Re: Lobster Lovers
Post by: Fly320s on December 03, 2014, 11:22:05 AM
WHO THE *expletive deleted*ck THROWS A PERFECTLY GOOD LOBSTER BACK IN THE OCEAN?

Damn savages.

I would, since I don't like lobster.  But if I bought a lobster, I would eat it, not "free" it.
Title: Re:
Post by: lupinus on December 03, 2014, 12:07:36 PM
There's only one way I'm dumping a lobster off a deck of the ship. And I dont think it's considered polite on modern cruise ships.
Title: Re:
Post by: SADShooter on December 03, 2014, 12:23:15 PM
There's only one way I'm dumping a lobster off a deck of the ship. And I dont think it's considered polite on modern cruise ships.

To say nothing of practical or safe.
Title: Re: Lobster Lovers
Post by: BlueStarLizzard on December 03, 2014, 01:18:29 PM
I would, since I don't like lobster.  But if I bought a lobster, I would eat it, not "free" it.

wrong answer. you would not throw a lobster back in the ocean.

you would give it to me. because I like lobster. :)
Title: Re:
Post by: Tuco on December 03, 2014, 01:19:48 PM
There's only one way I'm dumping a lobster off a deck of the ship. And I dont think it's considered polite on modern cruise ships.

After mixing it with excessive quantities of grain alcohol and diluted hydrochloric acid?
Title: Re: Lobster Lovers
Post by: vaskidmark on December 03, 2014, 04:01:47 PM
I would, since I don't like lobster.  But if I bought a lobster, I would eat it, not "free" it.

For years we (the whole extended family) had a cousin convinced that lobster tasted "yucky", in spite of the evidence of us coming up from drawn butter only for a quick gasp for air before plunging in again.  I think he was 15 or 16 when he learned the truth - and he's still not forgiven any of us.

(Side note: my maternal grandmother held that both lobster and shrimp became kosher with the application of even the slightest amount of MSG.  Personally I think it was Mr. Yee at the Peking Palace, instead of some rabbi, that told her that.)

stay safe.
Title: Re: Lobster Lovers
Post by: lupinus on December 03, 2014, 06:16:26 PM
After mixing it with excessive quantities of grain alcohol and diluted hydrochloric acid?
Certain deck types would have to come back into fashion first
Title: Lobster Lovers
Post by: TechMan on December 03, 2014, 09:28:10 PM
Effing idiots.
Title: Re: Lobster Lovers
Post by: BlueStarLizzard on December 03, 2014, 10:06:16 PM
note to self:

do not go on a cruise with lupinus.
Title: Re: Lobster Lovers
Post by: lupinus on December 04, 2014, 05:35:17 AM
note to self:

do not go on a cruise with lupinus.
hey at least I wouldn't be wasting perfectly good lobster