Rare lobster saved from tank in Florida supermarket

[Baitball Blogger]

Marybeth Jeitner spotted the yellow crustacean in a tank at the Flagler Beach Publix on Tuesday and knew she had to act fast. Publix employees held off on selling it and helped her prepare an enclosure so she could transport it.

Turns out her instincts were right, seeing as the creature's pigmentation is about one in 30 million.

She contacted aquariums and zoos around the state but none were able to take it because they host warm water tanks and the lobster would require a cold water tank.

Thanks to hard work and research, Jeitner was able to find the lobster she lovingly named Libbie for liberation a home at the Seacoast Science Center in New Hampshire, according to the Huffington Post.

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/features/blogs/gone-viral/os-rare-lobster-saved-florida-20140804,0,7246839.post

[Dreamer Tatum]

1. Seacoast Science Center has the best lobster rolls in New England, if you ask me. nt

[giftedgirl77]

2. That's fuckin priceless...

[Dreamer Tatum]

3. Couldn't resist. nt

[giftedgirl77]

4. Well good for you bc I giggled my ass off.

[jberryhill]

5. that is a self-indulgent shellfish remark

[cui bono]

10. Water you being so crabby for?

I did not sea that coming.

[pinboy3niner]

12. He's just being crustyacean

He's cantankerous that way.

[cui bono]

40. So he was just urchin for a fight?

[pinboy3niner]

42. Well, jberryhill IS a clawyer, after all

[Eleanors38]

32. Ah, that's just fiddlin' around.

[hifiguy]

15. Win. Shut down DU for the day.

[KamaAina]

17. No, Connecticut does.

We use butter. Maine, and presumably next-door NH, uses mayo.

[Gormy Cuss]

20. You drown them in butter and serve them warm.

Lobster is rich enough. A good Maine roll has slightly chilled lobster meat held together by a minimum amount of mayo, and they have to be served in a grilled top loader bun.

[KamaAina]

24. There is no "minimum amount of mayo".

That's like a "minimum amount of nerve gas".

[Gormy Cuss]

26. Mayo hata.

[jberryhill]

33. That can be treated these days at the Mayo Clinic

[Gormy Cuss]

35. How do they treat it, with

Miracle Whip?

[jberryhill]

36. Oh, Hell mann, no

They put you into isolation to decrease the spread.

[pinboy3niner]

37. I heard they put some gray poop on it

Oops! Damn you, Auto Correct!

[Warren DeMontague]

44. Aha!

So that's why my limo smells.

[jberryhill]

52. But of course!

[Gormy Cuss]

51. I don't think I Cain accept that answer.

It's Krafty, but not plausible.

[bunnies]

38. Only the crappy places use mayo.

If you go to a good shack, they use buttered bread and clean lobster.

[Warren DeMontague]

45. Oh my god.

put a warning on that, like food porn or something.

[RKP5637]

53. Food Porn

[pinboy3niner]

49. Yum! Though I guess the other way would do...in a pinch. nt

[Boom Sound 416]

18. ...

[RKP5637]

54. I gotta admit, that was clever!!!

[Botany]

6. and after the long trip the lobster needed a nice soft place to lay down

[pinboy3niner]

7. But they named the lobster Bill E...

...and told him specifically, "Bill E. don't be a gyro."

[Warren DeMontague]

47. Ouch.

You know what's even worse? I get that reference.

[snooper2]

14. is that red lobster?

LOL

[Warren DeMontague]

46. STOP PLEASE STOP PLEASE

You are killing me, here.

[Plucketeer]

8. What an irony

When you're of a different color in our society, no one scurries to insure that you avoid harsh treatment.

[eggplant]

9. It used to be considered cruel to feed lobsters to prisoners.

http://www.lobsters.org/tlcbio/biology.html

While ancient, Middle Age, and Rennaisance people appreciated many aspects of the lobster, they did not retain their popularity with the more modern Europeans and Americans. Along the northeastern coast of the U.S., the lobster was once so common in the 17th and 18th centuries that it was considered a "junk" food. When caught in great quantities or stranded on shore after severe storms, lobsters served as garden fertilizer and as a food staple given to widows, orphans, servants, and prisoners. It was so commonly used as a food for servants and prisoners that Massachusetts passed a law forbidding its use more than twice a week - - a daily lobster dinner was considered cruel and unusual punishment! The American revolutionaries hurled the insult "lobsterback" at the red-coated British. It wasn't until the 19th century that lobsters regained their status as a luxury food item, mostly as a result of their popularity with royalty.

[bvar22]

13. I hope the same thing happens to Possums and Armadillos.

I'll be living in Fat City!

[Warren DeMontague]

23. Little known fact: Lobsters have a highly complex language and have been known to use tools

okay, I just made that up.

[eggplant]

29. This one sings!

http://www.amazon.com/Rocky-The-Singing-Lobster-Dances-Also/sim/B002OUDV82/2

Well, except for the badly reviewed one.

[Eleanors38]

34. Clawing your way into this thread?

[jmowreader]

41. Lobsters are BORN with tools!

[Warren DeMontague]

43. There's no shortage of tools on DU, I know that!

I mean, present company excluded of course.

[Fuddnik]

11. It's probably going to make a round trip.

A friend of mine is in New Hampshire for a couple of weeks. And when she comes back to Florida, she always brings us fresh lobsters.

[steve2470]

16. THOSE DAMN ENVIRONMENTALISTS ! I coulda eaten that !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Very cool story.

[Xolodno]

19. This thread is so not Kosher.

[pinboy3niner]

22. Duh! That's because it's aimed at Lobstafarians. nt

[Warren DeMontague]

25. I'm disappointed. Usually your pitches are hard, fast, and inside

but let's be honest, you just lobbed that one across the plate.

[Warren DeMontague]

21. If the lord didn't want us to eat lobster, he wouldn't have made them so damn tasty w/ drawn butter

[pinboy3niner]

27. I'll give a reprieve just this once. Odds are, it's a worthy claws. nt

[Warren DeMontague]

28. I think George Lucas should be honest. By the time he got to Return of the Jedi

when he decided to name his race of squid-heads the "Mon Calamari", he was pretty much just phoning it in.

[eggplant]

30. It's a shrewd ploy!

[pinboy3niner]

31. Or...

[Warren DeMontague]

39. It's an elaborately constructed ruse!

[pinboy3niner]

50. You mean it's precrabricated?

Ah, the crabric of our lies...

[Warren DeMontague]

48. Bandy Claws is comin to town

[pinboy3niner]

57. OMG! They're not taking care of her, they're holding her lobstage!

I'm doing a slow boil here.

[TlalocW]

55. No one was able to take the lobster so...

She drove out to the forest and set it free.

TlalocW

[lonestarnot]

56. mmm. That was a good ending.

But why couldn't they put him on a boat and put him back in the ocean?

[Gothmog]

58. Nice story