I don't want to eat anything that is 130 years old. I'm glad he's getting a reprieve.

i'll eat him and gain his 130 years of wisdom

The dude survived a LONG time. Good for them, they are right. It's nuts for his end to be met in a giant pot. That's like cutting down the Methuselah tree and throwing it on a truck along with, say, common pine trees for firewood!

You wouldn't want to eat it anyway. It would taste like shit.

Lobsters generally become tough and chewy and lose flavor past 4 pounds.

Common LAdies, 200 dollars is nothing... just pay it yourself you stupid foos!

Don't let Homer Simpson have him like he did with Pinchy!!

We were at the beach.

Everybody had - Matching towels!

Somebody went, under a dock.

And there they saw, A Rock!


but it wasn't a rock...

It was a rock-LOBSTER!

ROCK LOBSTER!

Vermont has no coast. It's inland.

Shepppard: *hug*
He was featured in Magic the Gathering, some ten years ago. Here's his potrait from then: http://www.distrimagic.com/images/Deep%20Spawn.jpg

I know, they are talking about a fund raiser and "they are currently halfway to their goal.. blah blah blah and will do whatever it takes, blah blah blah". 200 bones? between 2 woman who will do whatever it takes? Shit i know of a few woman who will "do what ever it takes" here in Korea for about 50 bucks....

^HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHROTFLMAOAHAHAHAHLOLOLOLOL

Perhaps this is in Burlington, Massachusetts? The giant lobster (believe it was found in Boston harbor of all places)which was at the New England Aquarium must've died; this guy seems like a fine replacement.

So, 130 years old and 17 pounds gets "oh, it's so old, it would be a shame if he wound up in a pot," but everything less than that gets "let's kill and cook it in the most cruel manner imaginable."

I hate humanity.

What do you want us to do? Chloroform it?

'What a magnificent creature...
..let's do the right thing and stick it in a cage.'

oh great, now we can feel good about ourselves!

not to mention that this is already a depleted fishery. I pray that this thing isn't a reproductive female. just think about how many larvae it could release with each clutch of eggs!
If the Boston aquarium takes it, they are nothing more than a circus.

I wouldn't eat it just because it'd be like eating a cow that was at the end of it's natural lifespan...the meat wouldn't taste very good. It's stupid to not want to eat it just because it's so "majestic" or whatever.

Also, I can think of several far crueler ways to cook and kill a lobster.

I'm reminded of the "Hogzilla" that was killed in Alabama and feel a similar way about this lobster. Animals like this that have lived, seemingly, far beyond their natural lifespans, and grown far larger than we are accustomed to should be researched, not destroyed.

I felt a certain frustration seeing the corpse of Hogzilla. That animal was a rare and magnificent find, and should have been tagged and allowed to continue living, instead of being turned into meat paste. Similarly, the lobster, if tended to appropriately, could allow us to understand more about the lifecycles of crustaceans and how it was this one lived so long, and grew so big.

It's like a light-version of finding a sasquatch or yeti and killing it "just because it was there" as if it was not deserving of being studied, humanely, first.

>> ^timefactor:
Vermont has no coast. It's inland.


Wow. I am retarded. Especially considering that I'm from Maine. I've been so sick lately that I didn't even catch myself. It was sold in VT but more than likely caught of the coast of NH, MA, or ME. I AM SO WE TODD DID.

Update! (From, oh...back in August)
Andre is on his way to the aquarium after the two women managed to miraculously raise as much money as many Americans spend on coffee in a month.

hmm, anyone know where i could donate to their cause? i think he's cute

its an effin' lobster. Eat him like any other. He's escaped our clutches for long enough. Everybody has their day to die. Why not die and feed a family and make them smile. Oh...he has feelings? Not while you're dippin' some of that sweet meat into hot butter.

^Except, once again, I point out that the meat would be chewy, tough and taste bad. You generally don't want to eat one that's over 4 pounds.

..and again, even if you think lobster is the yummiest stuff on earth, the best course of action would be to throw this giant back into the ocean so that it could spawn thousands of tasty little crunch morsels.

^Dude, it's sure to be far too old to reproduce by now.

I'm surprised no one else mentioned the crazy-assed lady.

"It would be like boiling my great-grandfather!"

What kinda crazy off-the-wall dumbass comment was that?

I wouldn't want to eat him. After evading capture (and consumption) for such a long time, all I could do is look at him with a squint and whisper in a rough voice, "You win, Andre... You win," before dropping him back in the sea and walking off toward the sunset.

Anyone see The Departed?
*Spoiler alert*

It'd sort of be a bummer similar to Billy Costigan's demise. Such is life, yes, but if there's something you can do about it, do something about it.

Id put some butter on him a eat his arms first. Then Id eat his tail next with some salt and pepper.

Salt and pepper? do you even know what a lobster is DrPawn?

So, it would be like boiling your great grandfather, and you've only been able to come up with $100 to keep him from being boiled to death? (As of this video, anyway.)

So apparently they raised enough money to buy him, and someone who owns a plane offers to fly the lobster to another city "to eliminate travel time and stress on him." Can they think of no better use of their resources? Like perhaps, to help actual people?

i hope her great grandfather meets his end by a freak cannibalism accident.