PETA hopes to build memorial where lobsters died in Maine crash

BRUNSWICK, Maine (WGME) - People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals want to build a 5-foot tombstone where lobsters may have died after a crash on Route 1 in Brunswick, Maine, last week.

According to the Brunswick Police Department several of the crustaceans that a Cozy Harbor Seafood truck was carrying got crushed as a result of the rollover.

"It was something I've never seen before," said Detective William Moir of the Brunswick Police Department. "Some lobsters were loose on the ground from being spilled over so we went to work to save the ones we could."

The organization sent a letter to the Maine Department of Transportation asking if it could create the roadside memorial where the lobsters lost their lives.

"Countless sensitive crustaceans experienced an agonizing death when this truck rolled over and their bodies came crashing down onto the highway," PETA Executive Vice President Tracy Reiman said.

"PETA hopes to pay tribute to these individuals who didn't want to die with a memorial urging people to help prevent future suffering by keeping lobsters and all other animals off their plates."

Some Mainers say lobster's belong on their dinner table and they don't agree with a memorial.

"It just seems a little extreme to me," said Timothy Smith. "I am all for animal rights but I just don't understand putting up a tombstone for some lobsters I'm sorry, haha."

"I'm not cruel to animals but that goes way to far and a monument on the highway? We don't even put monuments up for people who die, added Janie Roy. "What's the difference between them falling on the road and dying or being thrown in boil hot water and we eat them every single day either way they're dead lobsters."

WGME reached out to the Maine DOT for a comment in regards to PETA's request, WGME has not heard back.

The first human to eat a lobster was very close to starvation. He or she probably found it when it came to eat them.

I will share anything, except my lobster. My grandmother used to only give us the small bug legs, she told us the bigger parts of meat would kill children. My mother laughed like crazy when I told her this, and asked how old you have to be to eat the whole lobster.

She looked me in the eyes seriously, and said 38.

A memorial where lobsters MAY HAVE died? What?

I'm way ahead of the PETA crowd...

I commemorate the sacrificial death of lobsters in the ancient fashion...

...on an ancient pure white porcelain table with four fire pits there is the Eternal Pilot Light that prepares the way for their spiritual return to the Vast Celestial Sea from whence they came...immersed into the Vessel of Passage, symbolic of the vast seas, their souls are released. Their remains, anointed lavishly with sweet butter are ceremoniously consumed with Blessed Beer and this is good. Scuttle along dear lobster in the Celestial Sea...

I have a friend who dives. He told me that if people knew the truth, lobster would be a dime a pound.

Insects, who swarm like locusts, and live decades. He pulled a 23 pounder, with permit. Came up in three pieces (They will drop their claws if grabbed). Three tanks, and two hours digging out that one.

There were actually colonial laws prohibiting slavers from feeding their captives lobster and salmon, more than five consecutive days.

Anyone who desires to eat Maine lobster should know... just don’t do it until you are at least 38 years.

Many of those who took control of peta are indeed lunatics. The intent of the organization has a merit.

Some humans who manage animals are disgusting creatures, more deserving of a bullet than the pathetic degraded animals they control... who you can only shoot, to stop their suffering.

Ever see a barn full of baby goats, with maggots where their eyes were..? Or a 3/4 (just one missing leg and good eye) training puppy, that they think can live for the next trial of a pit who is uneasy killing,.?

Every broadsword has a double edge, with a reason.

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