View Full Version : Making lobsters go to sleep?
red_wall
02-18-2009, 4:56 PM
My friend works at a Winn-Dixie, a supermarket.
They have live lobsters in the store, and one of the duties when you close is to put the lobsters to sleep.
He says you reach your hands in their, cup them over their eyes for about 2 minutes, and they're asleep.
They say that if you don't do it, their health takes a dramatic downturn, and they die.
Something about at the depths that the lobsters live in naturally there isn't that much light, so they try to simulate the darkness of the natural habitat.
This sounds crazy to me?
Is it?
crimsonmoon
02-18-2009, 5:05 PM
lol
i don't know anything about saltwater but it sounds like he's pulling your leg.
but i could be wrong....*maybe* LOL
The Zigman
02-18-2009, 5:13 PM
Reminds me of when I was a kid working in a lumber yard.
We sent all the new guys downstairs to the basement to get the woodstretcher...
We told them is was a device used to make crooked boards straight by stretching them.. and there was no basement...
sometimes we sent those guys upstairs to get the skyhook...
and to the boiler room for a bucket of steam...
Ahh.. man, those were the days.
crimsonmoon
02-18-2009, 5:14 PM
^^LOL :rofl:
The Zigman
02-18-2009, 5:35 PM
heck we even sent a kid to the shop for a metric crescent wrench.. the old guy who worked in the shop just about had a grabber from laughing so hard...
red_wall
02-18-2009, 6:13 PM
Haha, now that you say it like that - that does seem like the real reason though haha
cam191919
02-18-2009, 6:13 PM
makes me wanna work at a lumber yard :D
Cheech
02-18-2009, 6:14 PM
never heard of that one,, but I know a way that works! I do it all the time. . .
Put the lobster vertically, nose (or whatever the heck that pointi thing is) to the top of the counter, tail up high. All you gotta do is rub its forhead... Eventually it'll stop moving.
I'm telling you, it sounds wierd, but they really do fall asleep!
Sploke
02-18-2009, 6:19 PM
heck we even sent a kid to the shop for a metric crescent wrench.. the old guy who worked in the shop just about had a grabber from laughing so hard...
LOL...in boy scouts we used to send the new kids to find the left-handed smoke shifter...or relative bearing grease.
marinkafuschia
02-18-2009, 7:50 PM
how about sending the new waistress downstairs in find the ice mix and the squee-Q sharpener! lol!
(my big bros a cook and kinda an a$$)