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Giant Lobster that Sparked Bidding War Saved From Pot

ctv.ca — After a brief stay on land, Dee-Dee the giant lobster is heading back to sea. The owner of a New Brunswick fish store auctioning her off says he's made a deal with a B.C. woman who wants to release Dee-Dee back into the ocean.

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  • MacBookForMe, on 07/21/2008, -2/+36Dee-Dee is a 100 years old lobster!
  • MDellW, on 07/21/2008, -2/+23Aw this warms my heart lobster love.
    • TheUngod, on 07/22/2008, -2/+1This "love" intrigues me. Teach me to fake it.
  • alapoet, on 07/21/2008, -3/+26I love happy endings!
    • je12u, on 07/22/2008, -0/+1uummm...who doesn't?!?
    • Quaterni0n, on 07/22/2008, -0/+3Too bad it didn't end up on my plate. Now that would have been a happy ending! OM NOM NOM NOM!
  • binaryloop, on 07/21/2008, -5/+22Hey, if that lobster wants to do bongs.... who are we to stop her?
  • brainnovate, on 07/25/2008, -3/+25Mmmmmmmmm lobster.... although slightly smaller ones are usually a little better for eating.
  • BCCStu, on 07/21/2008, -2/+31Speaking as a Mainer...why doesn't this women free a bunch of smaller lobsters as opposed to the one big one. Seems short-sighted in my opinion...
    • republicker, on 07/22/2008, -1/+3Sense.......she obviously doesnt have any.
    • EmerilLIVE, on 07/22/2008, -3/+1It's not about money, it's about sending a message.
    • Quaterni0n, on 07/22/2008, -0/+4The real question is: why doesn't this woman eat a bunch of smaller lobsters instead of freeing a gigantic one? Lobsters are delicious! For $1000, you can have quite a feast!
  • fluidfoundation, on 07/21/2008, -4/+32No sense in eating a lobster that large, the meat would be all tough.
  • duggtodeath, on 07/21/2008, -3/+69PINCHY!
    • BobOrleans, on 07/22/2008, -0/+10http://www.24-7simpsons.com/pinchy.jpg
    • HighPriest15, on 07/22/2008, -0/+6YES! I was waiting for that!
    • donkevin, on 07/22/2008, -1/+8simpsons did it
    • AngeloM3, on 07/23/2008, -0/+2One of the best Simpsons scenes EVER!

      Marge: Mmmm ... who left these muddy claw prints on my clean floor?
      Homer: Sorry, Marge. Pinchy got all dirty in the yard chasing
      birds. But don't worry! I put him in a nice, hot bath.
      Bart: [sniffs the air] Hey, what smells so good?
      Homer: Yeah ... Pinchy? Pinchy!?! Oh ... Pinchy!!!!!
      [he runs out of the room worried]

      Later that night, Homer is crying at the dining room table, taking
      bites out of Pinchy's dead body while the family is watching.

      Homer: [eating, crying] Oh, man, that's good. [sob] Pass the
      butter.
      Bart: Are you gonna eat that all by yourself?
      Homer: Uh-huh. Pinchy would've wanted it this way. My dear, sweet
      Pinchy. [takes a bite] No more pain where you are now, boy.
      [rips him in half and sucks out the meat inside]
      Oh, God, that's tasty! I wish Pinchy were here to enjoy
      this. [takes more bites] Oh, Pinchy ...
  • lucy22, on 07/21/2008, -3/+14 Yes, they are considering creating of a lobster sanctuary in New Brunswick for such animals that they find. They should be saved and not eaten. And it wouldn't taste good anyway.
    • RobotBuddha, on 07/22/2008, -0/+2That could be 'really' interesting in a scientific sense given that lobsters seemingly don't age. For obvious reasons, there's not a huge amount of samples available for study though.
  • alperea, on 07/21/2008, -5/+36I remember boiling 2 lobsters for the first time. I was crying and eating at the same time. Bob and Fred were tasty though :P
    • marksism, on 07/22/2008, -1/+9www.cryingwhileeating.com
      • kristofir, on 07/22/2008, -0/+1Thank you... thank you so much...

        *bookmarked*
    • mllawso, on 07/22/2008, -1/+2You know you can kill them with a knife before you boil them, right? Just stab downwards, between the eyes with the blade facing away from the tail.Then pull/rock the knife forwards: splitting the front of its head. Immediately throw the now braindead lobster into the pot.
  • shutaro, on 07/21/2008, -2/+28Any ending that does not involve melted butter is chalked up in the fail column.
  • hmd1987, on 07/21/2008, -4/+15lol...for some reason i thought the lobster was saved from marijuana.
    • fruscianteisgod, on 07/22/2008, -0/+2lol samsies especially because an article about pot giving you man boobs was right above it
  • coffee200am, on 07/21/2008, -7/+7I predict he won't last long in the wild. Lobster is delicious food.
    • onestrawplz, on 07/22/2008, -0/+2he is going to a sanctuary.
    • psysop, on 07/22/2008, -0/+1Candy is delicious food. Eat some everyday.
  • coffee200am, on 07/21/2008, -0/+11Giant lobster's rescue takes new twist
    Shediac, New Brunswick | July 22, 2008 12:01:13 AM IST


    A 100-year-old, 22-pound lobster in New Brunswick, Canada, purchased by rescuers who wanted to release it, will instead live at a research station.

    Dubbed Big Dee-Dee, the crustacean was caught in the Bay of Fundy, near Shediac, in July and ended up at Denis Breau's Big Fish market. He opened bidding on the lobster at $1,000 and two unidentified groups in the province of Ontario and Laura-Leah Shaw, a Vancouver, British Columbia, each posted $1,000 in a bid to save the lobster, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp., reported.

    Shaw said her plan was to release the lobster into the Atlantic Ocean to spare it from being cooked but federal officials nixed that, saying she would have to get a permit, the Canwest News Service reported Monday.

    Instead, market owner Breau said he decided in light of the international attention Big Dee-Dee got, he wouldn't accept any money and rather donate the lobster to the Huntsman Marine Science Center in St. Andrews, New Brunswick, the CBC said.
    • myhandleondigg, on 07/22/2008, -1/+13a permit to put a sea creature back into the sea. whoever came up with that idea is a goddamn hero the american people.
      • Duositex, on 07/22/2008, -0/+6I'm just glad that they're Canadian and not "American" in the typically overused sense.
    • jhnewt, on 07/22/2008, -1/+4In other news, marine scientists say giant lobster is delicious!
    • Jeffler, on 07/22/2008, -0/+4I think its actually a better idea than relasing it back into the wild. You just KNOW its going to be released and immediately after some new guy is gonna snatch it up and resell it.
  • Surferess, on 07/21/2008, -2/+6Kind of gives you a warm feeling inside, doesn't it?
  • dannyrogers, on 07/22/2008, -0/+8i love lobster
  • auroranatrix, on 07/22/2008, -0/+18And now all I can think of is the B-52's.
    • ToRoE, on 07/22/2008, -0/+6Oh fuk you! You couldn't keep that to yourself. How many did you just infect with that wacky 80's song.



      R O C K lobster, woot!
      • auroranatrix, on 07/23/2008, -0/+1If I have to suffer....we all have to suffer. Roock Lobster! Oooh...ahh!

    • Andrwmorph, on 07/22/2008, -1/+8Rock lobSTAH!
  • iceman0113, on 07/22/2008, -3/+11ffs, lobsters are cockroaches of the sea.
    • AmyVernon, on 07/22/2008, -1/+8but damn tasty.
    • Duositex, on 07/22/2008, -3/+5I hate this ridiculous "but they're bottom feeders" argument when people are talking about which animals they eat and which they don't. It's absurd. If we judged what animals we wanted to eat based on the animals diet, we'd never eat any animals.
      • dondara, on 07/22/2008, -3/+2If an animal eats *****, what do you think it's made of? Cows eat grass, hay and corn. I have no problem eating those things but I will not eat fish *****. You can have mine.
      • psysop, on 07/22/2008, -0/+1Don't judge an animal for his diet! What
      • Elliuotatar, on 07/22/2008, -0/+5How about judging it based on brainpower? Or lack thereof? Lobsters DON'T HAVE BRAINS. Look it up.

        All a lobster is really is a giant insect. People don't generally think twice about killing an ant or a spider, do they?
      • askantik, on 07/23/2008, -1/+1What difference does it make whether it has a brain? They have a nervous system. Whether or not they have a brain is totally irrelevant, as I'm sure the lobster would (if it could) agree.

        Just for the record, humans would not exist without insects, which do not have brains. Without bees to pollinate our crops, we'd go hungry. So I say brainless animals FTW. And one more quip... humans have brains, but most of them don't act like it. Almost makes you wonder what use a brain is, doesn't it?
      • Elliuotatar, on 07/23/2008, -0/+2The difference is that if it doesn't have a brain then it can't be self aware or feel pain. It can react to stimulus, just like a computer can detect when you've pressed a key, but it's not "aware". Would you feel bad about smashing your computer with a hammer?
    • TrevorBelmont, on 07/22/2008, -0/+1If someone found a giant, 100 year old cockroach I'd want to rescue him too.
  • jaybol, on 07/22/2008, -1/+7i think they are just doing it so they can sell him for more later to someone who is really hungry for twice as much
  • Qtip42, on 07/22/2008, -1/+15We were at the beach
    Everybody had matching towels
    • citizenchan, on 07/22/2008, -1/+2"Rock LOBSTA! Yeah, you're gonna be alright"
  • diggboss, on 07/22/2008, -2/+4Now how do i know what it taste's like?
  • freshyill, on 07/22/2008, -1/+40I love how on news sites, "view larger image" always means "view slightly less tiny image".

    God damn it. When the story's about a GIANT lobster, I want to see a GIANT picture of it.
  • WiretapStudios, on 07/22/2008, -2/+5I can't wait to catch it again.
  • chr00t, on 07/22/2008, -6/+1Rock Lobster!
  • Chairboy, on 07/22/2008, -0/+7I remember reading about a classroom that intended to save money so they could buy freedom for a slave in Africa a few years ago. One of the regional experts said it would actually cause harm in the long run because it would create a new demand for slaves to be kidnapped. While this story is a warm and fuzzy (well, as warm and fuzzy as you can get for a bottom-dwelling, clawed death machine), it really only works on a small scale. If this were to grow into some sort of "mega sized movement" with tens of thousands of freed lobsters, then the market would see an increase in demand for a product.

    Like Eliza (The Duchess of Archochon and Qwghlm) said, to free one slave is meaningless, and the only goal worth pursuing is one that brings and end to slavery. Not that Lobsters are slaves or anything. Perhaps slaves to the delicious taste of butter...
    • maddskillz, on 07/22/2008, -0/+6Maybe the classroom could hire hitmen to take out the slave traders? Think different.
      • Chairboy, on 07/22/2008, -0/+4This is a fantastic idea. Think of the learning opportunities.
        1. The kids can learn the history of assassins.
        2. For arts and crafts they can fabricate various weapons.
        3. Learning tracking techniques the hitmen will use.
        4. International currency exchange.
      • WNW3, on 07/22/2008, -0/+2I feel the same way about the stupid turkey pardons the president does every year. So freaking stupid and pointless.
    • fas2, on 07/22/2008, -1/+2This is too far fetched. There will not be a mass lobster liberation.
  • aerosteelzero, on 07/22/2008, -0/+9Some really good shots of Dee Dee here. Enjoy.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpLYoSfohPg
    • mrgodai, on 07/22/2008, -0/+2holy crap, that's huge, the pic in the article doesnt do it justice, thanx for the vid
    • ToRoE, on 07/22/2008, -0/+2Do not boil for 3 hours! yikes. Live news always manages to screw something up...
      • TEMM, on 07/22/2008, -0/+13 hours is about right for a 22lb lobster. Lobster is generally boiled for about 5 minutes per half pound. For this monster that works out to about 3.6 hours.
  • Joab, on 07/22/2008, -0/+6Also speaking as a Mainer. Lobsters that big taste like crap. They are hard to cook and the meat is very bad.
  • ncc74656m, on 07/22/2008, -1/+5"Y'ar Dee Dee, you escaped me plate this time, but ye shall not be able to run forever!" - Long John Silver

    I think this is pretty cool, despite lobsters essentially being giant insects to me... I'd never eat one, just, eww, but still, very cool. 100 years old? Amazing how many creatures there are in the world to whom 100 years is hardly older than a teenager to us. Giant tortises for example.
  • drpleau, on 07/22/2008, -7/+2NUM NUM NUM NUM NUM
    • teh_techie, on 07/22/2008, -0/+1Woah.. you did it WAY wrong!

      But.. I welcome the pleasant change.
      • funkymoose, on 07/22/2008, -0/+1You're doing it wrong.

        (both of you)
  • djHBRD, on 07/22/2008, -4/+6I was really looking forward to an article about a rich, pot-smoking crustacean.

    Digg, you have failed me again.
  • Grova, on 07/22/2008, -3/+3IWhat's that smell? I'm giving him a hot bath.
  • Grova, on 07/22/2008, -6/+1What's that smell? I'm giving him a hot bath.
  • TheSquirrelKing, on 07/22/2008, -0/+4This is what a slow news day looks like in Canada...
  • spiritflare1, on 07/22/2008, -0/+6This grampops-lobster managed to survive 100yrs, my hat's off to him and he deserves to be let go.
  • Exhibitionist, on 07/22/2008, -0/+3It boggles the mind that this creature can live for 100 years and still have the intellect of a, well, lobster.
  • Andrwmorph, on 07/22/2008, -0/+510 years from now I hope Dee Dee escapes into the ocean...

    ...on a quest for vengeance on mankind for the indignities he was forced to suffer!
  • bardley, on 07/22/2008, -0/+9I'm really happy the store owner didn't send the lobster off to it's death.

    It really bothers me that when people find something awesome like a lobster that managed to live for a hundred years that they want to kill the ***** out of it and/or eat it, just because they can.
    • JointVenture, on 07/22/2008, -6/+1Pussy.
    • SoullessPoet, on 07/22/2008, -0/+1I agree with you, especially about the "just because they can" part.

      Props to the store owner for looking beyond just money:

      "The store owner, Denis Breau, said he accepted a $1,000 bid from Vancouver resident Laura-Leah Shaw to save the lobster, despite receiving a $5,000 bid from an Ontario group that wanted Dee-Dee for a banquet."
  • jokerhl, on 07/22/2008, -0/+2Maybe Dee Dee can get a job at the Krusty Krab.
    • kaseydiggs, on 07/22/2008, -0/+1That is exactly what I was thinking.
  • amoirae, on 07/22/2008, -0/+4Since she's releasing the lobster rather than eating it, isn't she just paying ransom to have the lobster freed and unharmed?
  • TheDarkLordXenu, on 07/22/2008, -1/+2I smell another Genji sequel!
    • Chebsi, on 07/22/2008, -0/+1Giant enemy lobster. What will be the trick to kill this thing?
  • fas2, on 07/22/2008, -0/+4Misleading description. No ocean for Dee-Dee.

    FTA: Dee-Dee will go to a conservation group's aquarium, because releasing him back to the sea would probably be fatal.
    • N00F, on 07/22/2008, -0/+3I wonder why it would be fatal? The shock of cold water? I know it can be a problem with aquarium fish. But that can be remedied.
  • CrackyJSquirrel, on 07/22/2008, -0/+1So much lobster. I am torn if a lobster that old would still taste good. I say eat it!!
  • JointVenture, on 07/22/2008, -0/+1Just follow her, when she dumps him be there to scoop him up and cook him up good.
  • todamax, on 07/22/2008, -3/+1man thats huge

    /thats what she said
  • Kenzan, on 07/22/2008, -2/+1"Dee-Dee is to be moved Monday or Tuesday. "

    ..Where Pinchy was promptly eaten by a school of sharks following the boat.
  • aronnyc, on 07/22/2008, -0/+1Is it wise to release him back into the wild? Wouldn't get just be caught again?
  • Quaterni0n, on 07/22/2008, -2/+4What's with all the "Oh I'm so happy it wasn't sold off to be eaten" crap? What's makes it any more deserving of being spared than any other lobster? As long as we don't overfish them, if it's caught, I say: "get in my belly! OM NOM NOM NOM!"
  • grneye53, on 07/22/2008, -0/+2Of coarse let him go he's gotta get back to the campaign trail with McCain he's on the ticket as McCain's "VP"
  • solidcube, on 07/22/2008, -0/+1I wish someone would save me from pot. Or save pot from me.
  • funkymoose, on 07/22/2008, -0/+1meh I would've sold it for 5k instead of 1k in a heartbeat. I don't think feeling good about yourself for saving a lobster that's probably about to die soon anyways is worth 4k. With the extra 4k plant a frigging tree or something.
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