A crustacean reprieve…
Although I’m not so sure he wouldn’t be safer, and happier, if he stayed in the NY eatery as a protected pet, rather than be returned to the ocean, even the protected waters of the toney resort of Kennebunkport.
Of course, who knows what makes for lobster happiness? They have such inscrutable faces.
If you really want to see a relaxed lobster, hypnotize it. I’m not kidding – my mom taught me this years ago when we were kids on Martha’s Vineyard and it never fails to entertain. Set the lobster on its head, claws akimbo (like a kid doing a headstand) and stroke its back gently for several moments. Eventually the lobster stops wriggling and stands there quite happily in a state of suspended animation.
My Maine father-in-law did the same thing…much to the amusement of his grandchildren.
Yes, it does work…all the way to the steaming pot too.
YUM!
hope they take the rubber bands off this time… a prior time they didnt… and of course we can assume the inevitable when disarmed in a competitive world with arms.
if you want to know why they do that… read up on circulatory systems… (i dont think the stroking is neccessary since its a shell). humans have valves in their vessels and can orient in any direction, a creature that is nearly neutral boyant system is absent them. poor things blood stops flowing when upside down… basically the human equivalent would be a high G turn where the blood stops moving.
hypnosis is dual mind… where the mind splits… like when your driving home thinking of something and cant remember the trip.. or when a politicians asked a question and they talk about everything else, you enter a hypnotic state as your conciouis splits to hold the questions target in mind as you try to listen to have the recursion resolved. they dont do this, and so your in a suggestable state.
lots of things are like this… but i doubt you can really hyptnotize a water born arthropoda.
I hope PETA is not monitoring this thread.
“hope they take the rubber bands off this time… a prior time they didnt…”
Doesn’t matter – the thing doesn’t have but a few more months (at most) to live anyway.
While lobsters in general live in many different climates, specific species of lobsters only live in a fairly small temperature range. This one was caught in an arctic region (famous for going to look at icebergs) and is released in an area that, well, doesn’t have icebergs.
It’s lucky that it is winter now so it can live until the water warms a bit. But then this isn’t the first time PETA has done that either – they are *really* bad about purchasing live main lobsters and releasing them into the ocean wherever they happen to live. Anywhere but pretty much around Main and they slowly die over the next few days. But, like many other activists, that is an irrelevancy and other things take a higher priority (the example that comes up here are the anti-Vietnam protesters not knowing/caring about the boat people and millions killed – war averted!).
Not to mention I find it amusing that (according to the article) some scientist say lobsters may be able to live to a hundred but PETA knows this one is at least 140 years old.
Ha! Reminds me of a similar lobster story that made the rounds a few years ago. That one ended with a delightfully wrong footnote about “People for Eating Tasty Animals” offering market price for the fellow.
This story strikes me as a bit decadent. We’ll know we have a real economic crisis when people just eat this fellar instead of spending treasure ferrying it to salvation.