It would take a heart of stone not to laugh at this:
The 2016 Larry was saved from the stockpot, too. He was destined for dinner when several concerned citizens worked with a group called iRescue Wildlife, Inc., to intervene, the Miami Herald reports.
Larry had been reserved for one family’s dinner when the activists offered to buy him and send him to freedom, ABC News reports.
“They really opened up my eyes and it got me a little emotional,” Melluso told ABC. “We went ahead and donated the lobster to them.”
The Larry-savers made plans to ship him to the Maine State Aquarium, which said it would accept him, quarantine him and then decide what to do with him after that. There was a swift response from the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.
They called on the aquarium to let Larry loose.
“Lobsters are smart, unique individuals who feel pain and suffer in captivity,” PETA Executive Vice President Tracy Reiman said in a statement. “PETA is calling on the Maine State Aquarium to let this elderly crustacean live out his golden years in freedom and peace.”
Alas, Larry’s golden years were never to be.
He arrived at the Maine Aquarium … less than alive.
Jeff Nichols, communications director for the Maine Department of Marine Resources, says that there’s always a challenge in shipping a live animal.
“Maine lobster dealers do it all the time … they ship live lobsters all over the world, but it’s something that is part of their business practice and their area of expertise,” he told NPR. “This was a situation where, you know, it was somebody trying to figure it out.”
The first attempt to ship Larry was scuttled when FedEx sent him back. And unfortunately, he spent some time on freshwater ice, Nichols says, which isn’t ideal for a marine animal.
The Florida activists repackaged him, with some coaching from the Maine State Aquarium’s staff, and sent him again, the Portland Press Herald reported on Wednesday:
“Larry was packed in a Styrofoam clamshell with seaweed and frozen gel packs intended to keep him cold. The Styrofoam package was then put in another box, providing extra cushioning and protection from leakage. iRescue did not respond to questions about the shipping cost.
“The packaging method has worked in the past for others who have shipped live lobsters to the aquarium, Nichols said. But when staffers opened the box Wednesday around noon, they found a motionless crustacean and broken gel packs.
“Unsure whether Larry was dead or alive, a staffer touched the lobster’s eye, but found it dry and unresponsive.”
Larry hadn’t made it.
Go here to read the rest. If there is a lobster Heaven I wish Larry well. If there is a lobster Hell, I hope there are plenty of boiling pots and butter there.
All I could see is the scale of justice.
For the men and women at PETA and iRescue Wildlife a small fetus is placed on the right side of the scale, Larry the lobster on the left.
Christ Jesus asks the question; Which one did you try to save while you were on Earth?
The mindset of hypocritical individuals that support killing children yet fall over each other on a old lobster is testimony of a world in peril. A society in ruin. Heartless and gutless.
Animal “rights” activists are another symptom of the current age, along with “enviornmentalists”, who care nothing for humanity but will stop at nothing to further their own causes.
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In today’s first reading St. Paul nails it on the head; “…we have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit of the one from God.”
The original article left out the best line from the PETA statement:
“PETA is calling on the Maine State Aquarium to let this elderly crustacean live out his golden years in freedom and peace.”
Pinky.
It’s a Monty Python script…. seriously!?
Philip-Re: your scale: But Larry could feel pain. And aren’t you showing your bias placing the baby, sorry fetus, on the “right” side of the scale? PETA will tell you Larry had a Constitutional right to be on the right side. Just check the penumbras of the commerce clause and the shadows of the 5th amendment. Guy
So, a fairly quick and delicious death became a slow, torturous, wasteful death. Congratulations iRescue.
Guy.
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This crap happens every day of the week. At least 2 entire 1000 page books could be written re: so called “rescue” groups and the animals they have killed in their “rescuing” and the animal abuse taking place under the title of animal “rescue.” These “rescue” groups are getting rich. Recently, while begging for more money, the humane society here in my area had $5 million dollars put up in a CD in one single account. Check out the percentage of animals that are in PETA’s custody that don’t make it out alive–it is literally almost 100 percent.
And the ASPCA is a contributor to PLANNED PARENTHOOD.