High-Tech FAIL of the Day

Some guy invents a high-tech killing machine that shocks lobsters to death instead of boiling them alive. PETA buys two lobster-shockers for a large event promoting the device. When the devices didn’t show up at the rally…PETA volunteers boiled hundreds of lobsters alive anyway to feed the crowd of hungry supporters. If that isn't the pot calling the lobster kettle black.

The animal rights group PETA bought two of the lobster devices and paid for Mr. Buckhaven and his wife to fly to the Arizona event last Saturday to demonstrate the technology. Unfortunately, the courier service lost the two machines and the animal rights people had to look the other way as volunteers killed hundreds of lobster in boiling water for hungry supporters of the resource centre.

That's just too funny!

PETA is also the largest euthanizer of animals in the United States. Their shelters have a much lower placement record than all other types of animal shelters.

3.5k for a machine thats just fluff? Noone in their right mind will buy this.

They should have put a live wire in the water tank -- same thing and cheaper.

PETA won't like the pictures I will be taking this weekend. I am hoping for a 8 point or above.

Knife through the dome..job done.

Originally Posted by ElGuapo242

Knife through the dome..job done.

+1

also if you didnt know lobsters are related to cockroaches >.> i dont see PETA or any one else bitching about people killing them

The only method of killing lobsters I ever saw that just downright pissed me off and made me agree with PETA was one I saw at Christmas Tree Shop a few years ago . . .

It was a MICROWAVE live lobster cooker . . . I mean . . . you put the lobster in this thing, put it in the microwave and let 'er rip.

Now don't get me wrong, I love me some lobster (seafood is the only animal product I eat really), but I see no reason they should be cooked from the inside out . . . just seems a tad over the top to me

Good one. That made me chuckle out loud....

People Eating Tasty Animals

I see nothing wrong here...pass the butter

I wonder what else will end up in the mini electric chair.

Hey, Meat is Murder....tasty, tasty murder :-)

Ummm. Something didn't make sense about PETA hosting a lobster dinner as a fundraiser. Many of their members are vegan or vegetarian at the least.

According the original article, it sounds like this was not a PETA fundraiser. Instead, it was for a Child and Parent Resource Center. PETA only got involved because they protested the method of boiling so many lobsters alive. The center agreed to the new method simply to get PETA off their back. When PETA didn't come through on their end, the center did what they were going to anyway.

I don't particularly like PETA (too strict and hypocritical at the same time), but the summary is misleading.

Originally Posted by Elios

+1

also if you didnt know lobsters are related to cockroaches >.> i dont see PETA or any one else bitching about people killing them

Hmm, very distantly, as they've now spread off into two subgroups of creatures. I'm sure there's some PETA members against killing cockroaches though XP

meh, I don't care for lobster. Can eat the hell out of King crab legs tho.

thought about getting one for the marine tank tho

Originally Posted by ekierce

The only method of killing lobsters I ever saw that just downright pissed me off and made me agree with PETA was one I saw at Christmas Tree Shop a few years ago . . .

It was a MICROWAVE live lobster cooker . . . I mean . . . you put the lobster in this thing, put it in the microwave and let 'er rip.

Now don't get me wrong, I love me some lobster (seafood is the only animal product I eat really), but I see no reason they should be cooked from the inside out . . . just seems a tad over the top to me

So cooking them from the outside in is okay?

Originally Posted by MrGuvernment

So cooking them from the outside in is okay?

At least it's almost instantaneous. The inside out thing is a very long torturous method. It starts heating gradually and continues to do so.

With the boiling water, it's heated up almost instantly, the lobster goes into shock and dies. With microwaving, it starts gradually in the middle, causing pain and suffering, expands slowly until it cause organ damage, etc.

Do we dig a hole and put up a tombstone for when we poop the lobster out too? C'mon, just boil the damn thing!