Under the sea? A bounty of sealife!

October 29, 2007 12:35 PM

Some lobsters have recently fled a German supermarket. Why'd they want to flee? Maybe they didn't want to be killed so they could live to be older then these clams. Maybe they wanted to run away and have wacky undersea reproductive hijinks! (Link safe for work, unless you work for the Krusty Krab.)
posted by FritoKAL (17 comments total)

These clams? Aren't they dead? Why would they want to commit Lobstercide?
posted by blue_beetle at 12:53 PM on October 29, 2007

DAMMIT! I searched for everything except clam. It's on my checklist and I never checked it off.

Wow, I mega-suck.
posted by FritoKAL at 1:12 PM on October 29, 2007

ah, they are probably just looking for someone to upload them so they can become SPACE LOBSTERS!
posted by edgeways at 1:17 PM on October 29, 2007 [1 favorite]

They probably just didn't want to get pooped on in German porn films.
posted by Astro Zombie at 1:17 PM on October 29, 2007 [3 favorites]

LOLOBSTERS!!
posted by psmealey at 1:49 PM on October 29, 2007

YM "LOLBSTERS." HTH.
posted by dersins at 2:23 PM on October 29, 2007

Perhaps they got wind of the CrustaStun.
posted by pracowity at 2:47 PM on October 29, 2007

ah, perfect. I'll show this to my friend who didn't believe that lobsters can survive (albeit for a limited time) out of water.
posted by Dillonlikescookies at 3:15 PM on October 29, 2007

"The breakout was successful," Katrin Brandeis, spokeswoman for the Stuttgart police, told SPIEGEL ONLINE

How successful can a lobster hope to be in landlocked Stuttgart?

or is this evidence of a German sense of humor...
posted by kuujjuarapik at 3:21 PM on October 29, 2007

"These animals weren't ever going to be pets," Brandeis said. "Now they've been taken to an animal home."

Huh. I had no idea the Germans were such eager adopters of unloved sea creatures.
posted by matematichica at 3:35 PM on October 29, 2007

kuujjuarapik writes "How successful can a lobster hope to be in landlocked Stuttgart? "

Well, they got out and managed to run ... or crawl, I guess ... down the street. That's pretty good for bugs of the sea. Now they're in an "animal home." I'm not sure what that means ...
posted by krinklyfig at 3:36 PM on October 29, 2007

or is this evidence of a German sense of humor...

That line was very reminiscent of things that a guy I once worked for used to say. He was a German (a Rheinlander of Bohemian descent) whose sense of humor was very dry, mischievous, sometimes absurdist, most lines he delivered with a raised eyebrow. It would be foolish to say that his sense of humor was typical of the region, his ethnicity or the nationality, but he was one of the funniest guys I ever met.
posted by psmealey at 3:42 PM on October 29, 2007

The clawed crustaceans, some of them up to 15 centimeters long,

That's less than 6 inches long. Were these actually lobsters or some miniature lobster-like creature? Do they eat nothing but baby lobsters in Germany?
posted by Justinian at 4:48 PM on October 29, 2007

Ach! Mein Pinchy! (sobs)
posted by hal9k at 4:49 PM on October 29, 2007

Now I will never live up to the prediction made in my senior yearbook - that I will write a Kama Sutra for sea animals. It's been done.

Now what will I do?
posted by nekton at 5:21 PM on October 29, 2007

This isn't the first time.
posted by b1tr0t at 6:27 PM on October 29, 2007

Justinian, they are most likely Norway lobster aka Dublin Bay prawns.
posted by kuujjuarapik at 8:19 PM on October 29, 2007