Ale House Under Fire For Lobster Tank Game
The Royal Palm Ale House has come under fire from the Animal Rights Foundation of Florida for its game where diners can pay to use a mechanical claw to catch a lobster in a tank. Catch the lobster, and the chef cooks it for you. The Animal Rights Foundation claims its cruel and inhumane, while the machine's manufacturer says the claws are "extremely gentle" and don't cause limbs to be pulled off or anything awful like that. It looks like there might be a standoff on May 22 — the organization says it'll stage a two-hour protest that day if the machine isn't gone by then, and the owner has no intention of removing the machine.
This could actually be a really great deal for those who are particularly adept at those mechanical hand machine games at arcades. It's only $2 per 30-second attempt, so if you get it on your first try, that's a very inexpensive lobster.
Lobster game roils activists [Palm Beach Post]
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Comments
Or, like I did not long ago, you could blow $16 and end up with no dinner at all!
Posted by: gail shepherd | May 7, 2009 04:59 PM
Yeah, I imagine I would end up in a similar boat - frustrated and dinner-less.
Posted by: Carolina | May 7, 2009 05:02 PM