[Alas Babylon!]

? I boil the water and drop the live lobsters in. If it's in a rapid boil, the lobster die before they know what hit them. No crawling out.

The analogy is true, though, if they used the Boiling Frog.

[Mr Ramsbotham]

I’ve dropped them into a pot of boiling water and in most cases they just move down toward the bottom. The only time I’ve ever gotten a reaction from a lobster is when I tried to kill one “humanely” by stabbing it behind the head. It threw all its legs out suddenly and dramatically and started thrashing violently about. “To hell with humane,” I said, whereupon I picked it up and tossed it into the pot. It went quietly.