WATCH ABOVE: You call that a lobster? THIS is a lobster!
TORONTO – This lobster won’t be on a dinner plate any time soon because of its minor celebrity status in New York and its monstrous size — equivalent to a small child.
While the 23-pound lobster at Jordan Lobster Farms isn’t quite as scary as The Creature From The Black Lagoon, it has certainly stopped visitors in their tracks. But they’d rather take a picture with the crustacean than eat it.
“That one you have to use your whole body weight to just lift it up,” employee Erika Opena told WCBS.
The catch was made in the Bay of Fundy, a body of water between Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. Shop owner Stephen Jordan couldn’t believe his eyes when it was delivered to his Island Park business.
“He shipped it in, he didn’t even tell us,” Jordan explained. “He said look in the crate, we opened it up and we were like ‘Whoa!'”
Fishermen estimate that, based on its size, the lobster is approximately 95 years old. That’s apparently enough of a reason for Jordan to keep it away from melted butter.
He plans to donate it to the Long Island Aquarium instead.
“It’s almost like a dinosaur, you’d like to see it continue on and I think they would take good care of it.”
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