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PETA to bar owner: Don’t play with food
This story brought to you by the fine folks in Colorado where, apparently at a place called J.D.’s Bait Shop you can play a variety of games which include the stand-by favorites like pool, darts, video games or something more exotic.
“The Lobster Zone” is of which we speak. Here are the basics: You guide a claw toward a target hoping to pick it up, only it’s not a toy or stuffed bear — it’s a live lobster. For $2 a try you can go after a live lobster and if you manage to hook it the kitchen at J.D.’s will prepare it for you.
Not surprisingly the bar owner received a letter from PETA asking him to stop. The twist? Apparently the Lobster Zone isn’t the invention of one twisted bar owner. The article says that, “Ernie Pappas, owner of the Apopka, Fla.-based company, told me his Lobster Zone is in more than 300 locations nationwide.”
The Denver Post writer ends saying, “I went by J.D.’s on Thursday night and found eight lobsters, peacefully spread out in as pristine a tank as I’d seen anywhere. Nobody played during the two hours I was there. If you are a lobster, this has got to be one of the safest places, I told the bartender …”
Read the entire story here. What do you think? Are you with PETA or are you entering into the Lobster Zone?
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By lightstepper
June 30, 2008 3:14 PM | Link to this
This is just another example of the lack of sensitivity and respect people in our culture have for other living things, be they animals, trees, or other human beings. Many people scoff at PETA as “extremists,” and while I don’t agree with all of their methods, they do an amazing job of educating people and trying to raise the sensitivity quotient in this country.
By TBill
June 30, 2008 6:29 PM | Link to this
I don’t eat lobster. They’re just big water spiders.
By gregg schay
April 30, 2009 7:23 PM | Link to this
I like lobster and I have won this game and ate the LOBSTER WITH BUTTER