22 lb. Lobster caught off Nantucket.

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'Bubba', 22-pound lobster, to be saved
Wednesday, March 2, 2005 Posted: 7:59 AM EST (1259 GMT)

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania (AP) -- He could have survived two world wars and Prohibition. He also could have been dinner.

He's Bubba, a 22-pound leviathan of a lobster pulled from the waters off Nantucket, Massachusetts, and shipped to a Pittsburgh fish market.

On Tuesday, Owner Bob Wholey Wholey gave the lobster to the Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium, which will send him to an aquarium at a Ripley's Believe It or Not museum.

"It is overwhelming," Wholey said. "If you see it, you will never forget it. Customers are just in awe."

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals sent Wholey a letter asking him to work with the group to release Bubba back in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Maine.

Another group calling itself People For Eating Tasty Animals reportedly offered Wholey a hefty price for the lobster. At Tuesday's price of $14.98 a pound, Bubba would retail for about $350.

Based on how long it typically takes a lobster to reach eating size -- about five to seven years to grow to a pound -- some estimate Bubba is 100 years old.

But Bob Bayer, executive director of the University of Maine's Lobster Institute, is skeptical and estimates that Bubba is likely 50 years old. Warm water and plenty of food may have more to do with a lobster's size than how long it's been alive, he said.

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I won't front. Even a 'tree-hugger' like me started visibily salivating when I saw this lobster.

[Mzo]

There's a dirty limerick in here somewhere.

[Grave]

That is one hell of a lobster.

The little ones always taste best, though. Sweeter. I think 22 1 lb lobsters would be a better deal.

[Fe 26]

I'd like to have that bitch for a pet. Imagion the looks you would get walking him.

[MechDeus]

Imagion the looks you would get walking him.

Or throwing him at little children.

[Fe 26]

Or throwing him at little children.

omg, that would be so awesome.

"BRLAAARRRR MONSTER!!!!!!!" *littel kids run away crying*

[Cowdisease]

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals sent Wholey a letter asking him to work with the group to release Bubba back in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Maine.

Another group calling itself People For Eating Tasty Animals reportedly offered Wholey a hefty price for the lobster. At Tuesday's price of $14.98 a pound, Bubba would retail for about $350.

at the other group. I'd join that in a sec.

[Wildkat]

The thing is, big old lobsters dont taste that good. Like grave said, the 1-2 pounders are sweeter...

[Drewbacca]

They should give him a cool name, not just simply Bubba.

[Jetman]

Another group calling itself People For Eating Tasty Animals

Is there really a group called this because that would be awesome? Especially if it was made up of nothing but 400 lb. human juggernauts.

Imagion the looks you would get walking him.

*littel kids run away crying*

Your running gag is killing me, dude. I just know that one day your spelling will rub off on me, and I'll start to write stuff out the same.That will be a dark day in my life.