Man Swaps Empty Lobster Shell for Crab Legs

[Maven]

This is not from The Onion.

AMSTERDAM, N.Y. (AP) -- After he finished his lobster dinner, an upstate New York man apparently was still hungry for seafood so he swapped the lobster shell for crab legs -- and now he faces a petit larceny charge.

Montgomery County Sheriff's deputies said a 57-year-old man brought back a reassembled lobster shell to his local Price Chopper store and claimed the crustacean was spoiled.

The store manager was about to let him trade the lobster for a $27 bag of king crab legs when he discovered the lobster was just a shell. Deputies said the man ran from the store clutching the crab legs when he was confronted.

Deputies said the man had already devoured the crab legs when they caught up with him at home. He was given an appearance ticket to answer the larceny charge in court.

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/01/21/us/AP-ODD-Lobster-Caper.html?_r=1

[Orrex]

1. That's got to be about the dumbest way to catch a case of crabs

[ejbr]

14. LOL!! n/t

[Akoto]

2. No doubt, his sentence has left him in a crabby mood.

[KansDem]

3. So, does anyone here want to explain to me why banking CEOs are still walking around?

Hmmmm?

Is it just that while this guy's fraud didn't work, their's did?

[Botany]

4. Hey the man likes seafood .... so what is the problem?

[Vickers]

5. He is really grasping at claws.

:spank:

[gratuitous]

6. Dr. Zoidberg?

Is that you?

[Lance_Boyle]

7. Yar, tis no man - tis a merciless eating machine!

I ask you, your honor, do these sound like the actions of a man who had all he could eat?

[Initech]

8. Homer Simpson?

[Shardik]

9. Again, the evil marijuana strikes!

:evilgrin:

[NeedleCast]

10. If You're an Idiot, Criminal is a bad occupation to choose

When I was in my teens and still in high school I was driving pizzas around for the local Pizza Hut. Sometimes, especially on weekends, the drivers tend to have a lot of money with them.

So I'm on a routine deliver to an apartment complex. Not an area known for crime or anything. Anyway, I take the pizza to the correct apartment and knock.

A big dude wearing nothing but tighty-whities and an unbuttoned shirt answers the door holding a gun. Tells me to give him the pizza and all my cash, which I do.

I drive back to Pizza Hut somewhat shaken but laughing as well. Someone just robbed me...from their own apartment! I got back to the store, told my manager and had to ride back out to dude's apartment to identify him. The cops knocked and yelled "Pizza Hut!" Dude came back to the door (sans gun) and they arrested him without a fuss, and recovered the money.

[Botany]

12. I had somebody steal my canoe last summer

and cut it up for scrap metal and took it to a recycling place ....
they hasd to give finger prints, have their picture taken,
and give I.D.s ..... I found my canoe @ the recycling place and
these guys are wondering why they were arrested.

[anonymous171]

16. -

:spray:

[TheCowsCameHome]

11. So this guy was a leg man all along.........

[Belial]

13. oww oww oww.. LOL

[ejbr]

15. So, let me get this right

The guy was caught when they didn't SEE food?

[Shardik]

17. That was so bad you gave me a haddock.

[ejbr]

20. Well bless your sole n/t

[damntexdem]

18. I'm shell shocked.

Things like this make me crabby.

But, OK, I'll clam up about it -- don't want to be shellfish.

[surrealAmerican]

19. Something is wrong with this case.

It just doesn't sound kosher to me.

[4 t 4]

21. He Loves him some seafood