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[MrPing1000]

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Pittsburgh - He may have survived two world wars and Prohibition, but a trip to the zoo proved too much for a 10kg lobster named Bubba.

The leviathan of a lobster died on Wednesday afternoon at the Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium, about a day after he was moved from Wholey's Market, said zoo spokesperson Rachel Capp and fish market owner Bob Wholey.

"They're very finicky. It could have been a change in the water. You have no idea," Wholey said.

Bubba spent a week at the market after he was pulled from the waters off Nantucket, Massachusetts. He died in a quarantine area of the zoo's aquarium, where he was being checked to see if he was healthy enough to make a trip to an aquarium at a Ripley's Believe It Or Not museum, Capp said.

Bubba will be examined to try to determine the cause of death; Capp and Wholey guessed it may have been the stress of being moved.

Based on how long it typically takes a lobster to reach eating size - about five to seven years to grow to about 450 grams - some estimated Bubba was about 100 years old. Marine biologists said 30 to 50 years was more likely.

dammit

 

[Ramirez]

TTIWWP

 

[Hooker]

Is it wrong to wonder how s/he tastes?!

 

[Cerebral Palsy]

Did they eat bubba?

 

[MrPing1000]

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/03/02/bubba.lobster.ap/

some pics there, the article is about how he was getting moved to a zoo. LITTLE DID THEY KNOW WHAT WOULD HAPPEN *cry*

23pounder vs 1.5pounder

gone but not forgotten

 

[Particle Physicist]

:lol i was going to make this thread.. but i was too lazy

 

[Shadax]

*sob* Poor Pinchy! *munch* *slurp* *sob*

 

[demi]

LOBSTER WRAPPED IN BACON SMOTHERED IN BUTTER

 

[android]

I bet Capp and Wholey eat well tonight

 

[Brannon]

As a supporter of "People for Eating Tasty Animals", I demand they share this lobster with the world. I don't care how much mercury it probably has; IT MUST BE EATEN.

 

[DarthWoo]

They need to take all this crazy quantum physics knowledge that I understand nothing of, and use it to invent a time acceleration chamber. The purpose would mainly be to quickly grow lobsters and other delicious food animals that take too long to naturally grow into a size large enough to be worth eating.

 

[gigapower]

They need to take all this crazy quantum physics knowledge that I understand nothing of, and use it to invent a time acceleration chamber. The purpose would mainly be to quickly grow lobsters and other delicious food animals that take too long to naturally grow into a size large enough to be worth eating.

I'd rather see my tax payer dollars spent towards a lobster and crab growth accelerator, then watch them get wasted on a ballistic missile defense sheild. I'm 100% being serious here too.

 

[KiNeSiS]

Is it wrong to wonder how s/he tastes?!

That's S.H.I.T. to you!!!!

 

[number386]

As a supporter of "People for Eating Tasty Animals", I demand they share this lobster with the world. I don't care how much mercury it probably has; IT MUST BE EATEN.

Bubba would of wanted it that way.

 

[Tommie Hu$tle]

I bet Capp and Wholey eat well tonight

Who is to say they haven't already eaten well? Perhaps this is their cover up.

 

[Jeffahn]

Bah! Crayfish tastes better than lobster anyway.

...

 

[Boomer]

Pfft...that's nothing.

 

[DarthWoo]

I'd rather see my tax payer dollars spent towards a lobster and crab growth accelerator, then watch them get wasted on a ballistic missile defense sheild. I'm 100% being serious here too.

Just imagine how many people a lobster that was large enough to be a threat to humans could feed. Since they were saying this one could be anywhere from 30 to 100 years old, I wonder just how long a lobster can live under ideal conditions, and how large it could grow.

 

[Escape Goat]

Leviathan of a lobster...nice alliteration.