I don't know if any of the seafood joints near you have a "Lobster Zone" game yet, but I can assure you that they are fun for the whole family.
Posted on 07/30/2004 7:20:04 AM PDT by Area Freeper
Police are investigating a claim by an animal rights extremist group that it was responsible for releasing a fisherman's lobsters, seriously damaging his boathouse and splashing red paint around his home.
The statement by an organisation calling itself the Lobster Liberation Front included a warning that "the war against the lobster industry has begun". The notice, which was posted anonymously on the Southern Animal Rights Coalition website, added: "We will attack anywhere, at any time, and pots will be smashed, boats sunk and sea life liberated."
It added: "No animal should be sacrificed for human greed, let alone boiled alive."
The statement, which was being treated "seriously" by police, follows attacks on the property of Jonathan Lander, 42, a fisherman from Swanage, Dorset. In May, his boathouse was badly damaged and 50 of his lobster pots were vandalised. Last month, his boat was damaged, 30 live lobsters and three crabs were released from his pots and returned to the sea, and red paint was thrown over his house.
Mr Lander, a father of two, said: "The Lander family has been lobster fishing in Dorset for over 200 years. If these people have a real problem with what we do they should have the decency to come and speak to us and not threaten my family or our livelihood."
The LLF claimed that its "buccaneers" had torn off the front of the boathouse, and cut up the 30 lobster pots before crushing them. A further 20 pots were sabotaged on the slipway.
In the second attack, the group said two of its members went out to sea in a boat and found 30 lobsters and three crabs being stored in pots with their claws bound with elastic bands.
It added: "The bands were cut and the marine life returned to the sea." The group said its members then ripped down the radio mast from Mr Lander's lobster boat, put the engine out of action and cut the anchor cable. Fish crates, rods, lifejackets and other equipment were thrown overboard.
OK -- I hearby endorse the boiling of Lobster Liberation Front members. In fact, I am going to have lobster for dinner tonight (my way of supporting the lobster fishing industry).
Are they suggesting that we eat our lobster raw?
I don't know if any of the seafood joints near you have a "Lobster Zone" game yet, but I can assure you that they are fun for the whole family.
Destroying a mans life to protest an animals life. Did they learn this in college?
Hope they like living in Prison when they get caught. Funny that they will end up in cages like the lobsters.
Hope they like living in Prison when they get caught.
From your lips to Gods ear!
I don't know any lobstermen, but I don't think I would be messing with people in that line of work. I just get the image in my mind of hard-working men working over a bunch of wanna-be ecoterrorists who have never seen a real hard day's work in their life.
...and body parts make great bait. :^O
I have always wondered what the animal rights nuts do when they find roaches (which are related to lobsters) in their homes.
"buccaneers"? No, pirates.
Hopefully these yahoos get caught red-handed at sea, where admiralty law applies. Then perhaps they could be charged with piracy, which I think is still a hanging offence, under admiralty law.
Well at least they're not the Romans. I'm mean, what good have they ever done?
How funny...
I'm just off to the store to pick up 2 lobsters for my wifes birthday dinner. We'll be sure to enjoy them even more now.
Back in the 80's, lobstermen were caught with LAW rockets, not long after the Valhalla got snagged. Scary for a young coastie, keeps you on you toes.
Never heard of a Lobster Zone, though I have a sudden inclination to move and go find one...
...Now you've done it, You've started another Monty Python (Life of Brian) thread... :))
Excellent...another excuse to go eat Lobster again tonight.
Looks like fun to me!
Lobster...yum! I know what I'm having for dinner....
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