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Default Royal Navy Kills Lionel The Lobster

Chemo the Clown wrote:

> On Oct 8, 2:24 pm, Sqwertz > wrote:
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>>On Thu, 08 Oct 2009 12:43:38 -0700, Mark Thorson wrote:
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>>>Them's the breaks.

>>
>>>http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1219014

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>>They blow up a 600lb mine that sent water 50ft into the air and they
>>think they only killed a damn lobster?
>>
>>They probably crushed a few hundred fish as well.
>>
>>-sw

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>
> With all the technology they have...are you telling me they couldn't
> figger out a way to get the lobsta out of there? Sheesh....


They didn't mention the depth, or how the divers were equipped but given
the risks to the humans involved, personally I wouldn't have spent, or
allowed anybody I was responsible for to spend a whole lot of time
trying to coax a large albeit tasty bug out of an unexploded mine.

"You are very dense indeed, Mr. Lobster."

Or rather, you were....