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.
< Homer > Pinchy would have wanted it this way! < /Homer >
Exactly. Boiling them makes them dead not alive.
I love going to Super King Buffet here in Broward County. For about $6.00 you get all you can eat food including baby lobsters which are my favorites. I usually eat about 2 or 3 dozen baby lobsters at a time. Soooooo good!
Don't remember where I read about this, but someone observed that the farther we moved away from an agricultural society, the more we see the rise of these animal rights groups. Probably because they become detached from the chain of life that accepts that something must die for you to eat, and therefore survive. They proceed to Disney-fy all animals and think they need special protection. Interesting line of thinking.
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Splitters!
This is Britain, fat chance of anyone having a gun for self defense.
I agree with that, Fudd! I bet lobster fishermen are strong manly types and the ecoterrorists are a bunch of girly men.
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