July 16, 2014 — An enormous lobster that’s been sitting in the tanks at a Scituate fish market is about to head back to the open ocean because the market’s owner apparently forgot that his oversized red crustacean is basically a giant buttery sandwich in a shell.
The Patriot Ledger reported that the soft-hearted fish market owner is Joby Norton, who runs Mullaney’s Fish Market and has had the lobster in his tank for about three weeks. In the time since, the report says Norton and his staff have named the shellfish “Luke” and estimated its age to be over 75-years old.
Unfortunately, that kind of heartwarming man-beast friendship is also warping Norton’s judgement. Norton told the Ledger that despite multiple offers to buy Luke, he and his staff decided they’re going to take him out on a lobster boat, “give him something to eat,” and drop him right back into the ocean depths where he came from.
That’s a huge mistake.
Read the full story at the Boston Globe