PETA wants to build a 5-foot tombstone where lobsters may have died after a crash on Route 1 in Brunswick, Maine, in August 2018. (PETA)
Posted on 11/04/2018 4:16:16 AM PST by vannrox
PETA wants to build a 5-foot tombstone where lobsters may have died after a crash on Route 1 in Brunswick, Maine, in August 2018. (PETA)
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.
By any standards at all, PETA members are just plain crazy.
I would put lobster shack and gift store across street for tourists.
I should build a memorial in my kitchen.
My gawd these people just cannot stop the insanity! Lobsters. Really??? How about we put up a counting clock at every abortion clinic “commemorating “ every baby denied their chance at life?
That’d go over well with the leftist dogooders, I’m sure
A memorial where lobsters MAY HAVE died? What?
Reminds me of when I was about four years old, and we had a “funeral” for my cousin’s pet goldfish.
But....WE grew out of it.
“A memorial where lobsters MAY HAVE died? What?”
Well, yeah ! Some of those lobsters may have used the event to escape into the woods and live on the run. Many of them may have went on to lead productive lives, raising families and buying homes.
One of them is even rumored to be D.B. Cooper !
Someone needs to place a side order of melted butter on the stone !
I will not order lobster in a restaurant anymore. The last couple of times they looked like crawdad tails for a huge amount of money. I either cook them at home or we bbq them when on the boat. I’m kind of lucky that all our neighbors at the marina are big into lobster season. We had a steak and lobster dock party yesterday. Yum! Lobster is one of my faves but I’ve been screwed in restaurants too many times now.
LOL!
Lobsters are biologically immortal.
https://www.petakillsanimals.com/
The memorial should be a big cast iron cauldron above an eternal flame
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Yeah, and some may have formed a caravan and went to Mexico.
“A memorial where lobsters MAY HAVE died? What?”
We live in a time where memorials to lobsters are funded and memorials to heroic American soldiers are destroyed.
Reminds me of what Paul Harvey used to say: when small men make big shadows, sunset is near.
Nitwits...
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