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[link|http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61501-2005Mar23.html|Sympathetic Customers Save Giant Lobsters From the Pot]:

What he got from the seafood distributor was a gargantuan lobster and an outpouring of sentiment from customers who felt sorry for the 15-pound animal crammed into a tank alongside an assortment of its two- and three-pound cousins.

After Grolig spent days kibitzing over the ethics of his trade, the oversized crustacean, estimated to be between 35 and 40 years old, yesterday began a 400-mile journey back to its home waters off the coast of Massachusetts. One of the lobster's admirers purchased it for $150 -- about $30 more than Grolig paid the wholesaler -- and he agreed to coordinate the animal's liberation with help from his friends.

"I've never had a lobster that big at this store before, and I won't have one that big again," said Grolig, owner of River Falls Seafood Co. and a 21-year veteran of the seafood trade. "About 30 percent of the people who saw him in the tank expressed concern. A few customers were really unhappy. . . . I'm really torn about the whole idea of these big lobsters. Does it really make sense to sell them?"

Cheers,
Scott.

Post #203,575 by bionerd 4/16/05 12:57:43 PM Reply	Keep an eye on your coworkers How to identify workplace psychopaths (not that any of us have anything to worry about): [link\|http://biz.yahoo.com/brn/050414/15921.html?.v=1\|http://biz.yahoo.com...4/15921.html?.v=1]
Post #203,583 by folkert 4/16/05 3:46:24 PM Reply	Nooo kidding. Seeing as most of us ARE the Cow-Orkers that others have to worry about. -- [link\|mailto:greg@gregfolkert.net\|greg], [link\|http://www.iwethey.org/ed_curry\|REMEMBER ED CURRY!] @ *i_wethey* [image\|http://www.danasoft.com/vipersig.jpg\|\|\|\|]
Post #203,585 by tablizer 4/16/05 3:54:31 PM Reply	We're just crazy, not psychopaths The article makes it sound Boolean. Often people are half psychopaths. They might feel a little bit guilty for farking somebody, but the reward outweighs the guilt. ________________ oop.ismad.com
Post #203,606 by ben_tilly 4/16/05 9:28:35 PM Reply	Only some of us are But some of us definitely are. Particularly telling was the sentence, But group therapy tends to make psychopaths better psychopaths because it gives them more behaviors to use to camouflage themselves. Cheers, Ben I have come to believe that idealism without discipline is a quick road to disaster, while discipline without idealism is pointless. -- Aaron Ward (my brother)
Post #203,611 by broomberg 4/16/05 9:39:17 PM Reply	Now it is time to name names after a statement like that. Who's on your list?
Post #203,615 by boxley 4/16/05 11:43:49 PM Reply	he said psychopath not sociopath, so you are safe :-) All tribal myths are true, for a given value of "true" Terry Pratchett [link\|http://boxleys.blogspot.com/\|http://boxleys.blogspot.com/] Any opinions expressed by me are mine alone, posted from my home computer, on my own time as a free american and do not reflect the opinions of any person or company that I have had professional relations with in the past 48 years. meep questions, help? [link\|mailto:pappas@catholic.org\|email pappas at catholic.org]
Post #203,627 by bionerd 4/17/05 10:01:30 AM Reply	Ahhh, now you're worried, aren't you? :-) Seriously, it would be hard to pick out a true psychopath since they're so good at manipulating. From what I can tell, we're just a bunch of garden variety neurotics. And that's okay. We're the people that make the world go round.
Post #203,629 by ben_tilly 4/17/05 10:40:00 AM Reply	Well that line reminded me of something... [link\|http://z.iwethey.org/forums/render/content/show?contentid=202253\|http://z.iwethey.org...?contentid=202253] Cheers, Ben I have come to believe that idealism without discipline is a quick road to disaster, while discipline without idealism is pointless. -- Aaron Ward (my brother)
Post #203,632 by broomberg 4/17/05 11:02:03 AM Reply	Good point
Post #203,649 by Nightowl 4/17/05 1:54:25 PM Reply	I know at least one person that scares me But that's pretty obvious, I think. Brenda "The people of the world having once been deceived, suspect deceit in truth itself." -- Hitopadesa 600?-1100? AD, Sanskrit Fable From Panchatantr
Post #203,708 by CRConrad 4/18/05 7:49:04 AM Reply	Oh, come on, now! I'm real sweet 'n' cuddly, off-line! :-)
Post #203,762 by Nightowl 4/18/05 1:14:34 PM Reply	Hehehehe you're funny Conrad! Conrad wrote:>>Oh, come on, now! I'm real sweet 'n' cuddly, off-line! :-)<< You're also smart enough to know I didn't mean you. :) You don't live near me, nuff said there. ;) Brenda "The people of the world having once been deceived, suspect deceit in truth itself." -- Hitopadesa 600?-1100? AD, Sanskrit Fable From Panchatantr
Post #203,638 by Andrew Grygus 4/17/05 12:33:33 PM Reply	It's articles like this . . . . . . that give psychopaths a bad name. They make me . . . . just . . . . want to . . . . KILL . . . . somebody! Yesss! Yesss! [link\|http://www.aaxnet.com\|AAx]
Post #203,639 by bionerd 4/17/05 12:41:49 PM Reply	Take it easy there, cowboy. Go chop up some meat and cook something. You'll feel better.
Post #203,641 by Andrew Grygus 4/17/05 12:57:06 PM Reply	Yesss . . . I'll chop up some cabbages! I love to hear them scream. Very relaxing it is. [link\|http://www.aaxnet.com\|AAx]
Post #203,642 by ben_tilly 4/17/05 12:59:51 PM Reply	If you want screams... boil some live lobsters! Nobody cares about crustaceans! Cheers, Ben I have come to believe that idealism without discipline is a quick road to disaster, while discipline without idealism is pointless. -- Aaron Ward (my brother)
Post #203,643 by Another Scott 4/17/05 1:17:33 PM Reply	Counterpoint. [link\|http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61501-2005Mar23.html\|Sympathetic Customers Save Giant Lobsters From the Pot]: What he got from the seafood distributor was a gargantuan lobster and an outpouring of sentiment from customers who felt sorry for the 15-pound animal crammed into a tank alongside an assortment of its two- and three-pound cousins. After Grolig spent days kibitzing over the ethics of his trade, the oversized crustacean, estimated to be between 35 and 40 years old, yesterday began a 400-mile journey back to its home waters off the coast of Massachusetts. One of the lobster's admirers purchased it for $150 -- about $30 more than Grolig paid the wholesaler -- and he agreed to coordinate the animal's liberation with help from his friends. "I've never had a lobster that big at this store before, and I won't have one that big again," said Grolig, owner of River Falls Seafood Co. and a 21-year veteran of the seafood trade. "About 30 percent of the people who saw him in the tank expressed concern. A few customers were really unhappy. . . . I'm really torn about the whole idea of these big lobsters. Does it really make sense to sell them?" Cheers, Scott.
Post #203,645 by Andrew Grygus 4/17/05 1:34:26 PM Reply	Once this would have been considered a small lobster. In the early 1700s and much of the 1800s lobster was considered food for the poor because it could be gathered on the beach after storms. Fifty pound lobsters were common because lobster fishing wasn't at all intensive. The well-to-do had no interest in lobster until the invention of refrigerated rail cars by which they could be carted inland where they were exotic and expensive. Once the demand was built in places like Chicago and the price was driven up New Englanders took notice and demanded lobster for themselves. Unregulated fisheries quickly depleted the supply of large lobsters. [link\|http://www.aaxnet.com\|AAx]
Post #203,685 by ben_tilly 4/17/05 11:47:29 PM Reply	The motivations are unclear These are people who are customers of a seafood store. What were they there to buy? I'm reminded of a human interest story when I was in NH. A Red Lobster had an albino lobster and released it at the request of the patrons. They were not lobster rights activists by any means - they just thought that the albino lobster was cool and should be saved. (And then went to enjoy their own lobster dinner.) Cheers, Ben I have come to believe that idealism without discipline is a quick road to disaster, while discipline without idealism is pointless. -- Aaron Ward (my brother)
Post #203,650 by Nightowl 4/17/05 1:55:59 PM Reply	Auuuugh! I love lobsters, and I don't mean to eat, either! I even have a giant 4 foot long stuffed one! Brenda "The people of the world having once been deceived, suspect deceit in truth itself." -- Hitopadesa 600?-1100? AD, Sanskrit Fable From Panchatantr
Post #204,558 by lincoln 4/24/05 4:13:27 PM Reply	You'd probably like "Carrot Juice Is Murder" by The Arrogant Worms, a Canadian comedy team. A very funny song. lincoln "Windows XP has so many holes in its security that any reasonable user will conclude it was designed by the same German officer who created the prison compound in "Hogan's Heroes." - Andy Ihnatko, Chicago Sun-Times [link\|mailto:bconnors@ev1.net\|contact me]
Post #204,559 by lincoln 4/24/05 4:16:06 PM Reply	You'd probably like "Carrot Juice Is Murder" by The Arrogant Worms, a Canadian comedy team. A very funny song. lincoln "Windows XP has so many holes in its security that any reasonable user will conclude it was designed by the same German officer who created the prison compound in "Hogan's Heroes." - Andy Ihnatko, Chicago Sun-Times [link\|mailto:bconnors@ev1.net\|contact me]
Post #203,709 by CRConrad 4/18/05 7:57:15 AM Reply	Bah, stupid bleeding eejit "journalists" nowadays! It's article's like [link\|http://biz.yahoo.com/brn/050414/15921.html?.v=1\|this] that have caused me to lose pretty much all faith in modrin meeja: Do you like psycho movies? Here's something really scary: You might work with one. Nope, no worries. I'm pretty damn SURE I don't have any psycho movies for co-workers. [link\|mailto:MyUserId@MyISP.CountryCode\|Christian R. Conrad] (I live in Finland, and my e-mail in-box is at the Saunalahti company.) Your lies are of Microsoftian Scale and boring to boot. Your 'depression' may be the closest you ever come to recognizing truth: you have no 'inferiority complex', you are inferior - and something inside you recognizes this. - [link\|http://z.iwethey.org/forums/render/content/show?contentid=71575\|Ashton Brown]

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