Animal rights activists yesterday revealed they have placed a secret pro-lobster message in Fenway Park to coincide with a “cruel” crustacean feast that begins today in Maine.
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals announced on its blog yesterday that it “snuck” the hidden phrase “lobster liberation” into a commemorative Fenway Park brick that an employee purchased in December. Located in the Jim Rice Section (Gate C, Section 7), the brick’s subliminal etching can be seen by combining the first letter of each word on the stone: Lead Our Bo Sox To Early Runs! Late Inning Blasts! Easy Routs! A Trophy In Our Name!
PETA’s reveal comes “just in time” for the Maine Lobster Festival, the organization said.
But Tim Carroll, president of the annual repast, was hardly shell-shocked.
“That’s great that the Maine Lobster Festival is now part of Fenway Park,” he said. “Any awareness of the festival we will gladly take.”
A clawing post on PETA’s blog yesterday urged: “Just as BoSox fans should be free to watch baseball games, lobsters should be allowed to pursue their own pleasures, free from the excruciating pain of being boiled alive.”
(c)2012 the Boston Herald
Distributed by MCT Information Services
I’ve liberated a few myself this year. MMMMMMMMM! Come to Rockland Folks and enjoy the fun. The price is right and the food is excellent.
Are these folks for real?
The people are, but the world they live in apparently isn’t.
No, they are figments of your imagination and they put one over on the Lobster Festival!
Unfortunately they are for real and they attempt to put one of us every day, probably voted for ron paul.
How has voting for the lesser of two evils been working out for you? The lesser of two evils is still evil.
what does this have to do with the Presidential Election? I eat Lobster, enjoy it very much, and still voted for Ron Paul…..
Aw, such sweet innocence from “Cindy Lou Who, who was no more than two”
Yup, but I know enough to realize Obama and Romney are one in the same when it comes to politics and I don’t like where the country is heading, so why would I want to vote for more of the same old same old
and I get called Cindy Lou Who all the time and have for as long as I can remember…
They sure did, Rockcyn! I can only imagine how many lobsters will be saved because there’s a secret message that doesn’t mention the Lobster Festival etched on a brick in a baseball stadium two hundred miles from where the festival is taking place.
Um, who’s going to look at that and say, “I wonder if the first letters of each word spell something out?”
The lobster festival brings tourists and vital dollars to Maine’s economy. Plus, people ENJOY it.
I must be smarter than the average bear, because I saw it before I read the article! Ha, ha, jokes on you!
No, you are not smarter than the average bear.
So you say! Really – is that comeback you have?!
lobster liberation I saved them from the tank at Shop and Save and they are now in my fridge awaiting a hot bath.
six beers at fenway and i’m looking at breasts. is that politically correct?
Am I reading the Onion?
You should get a hair net for that.Your shedding…..
The Lobster Festival is a great place for entertaintment–better than it was 20 years ago. Come on out and visit the Festival, you will see many people enjoying themselves, great gift items, enjoy the clean air of the harbor, the last time I went, we had a fantastic time! Try the fried dough it is fantastic.
The amount of people whom have been in town already shows that many are looking forward to it with expectation. Check it out: http://www.mainelobsterfestival.com/
Sorry that you experience was negative. You must never go to ball games or concerts.
You might want to try it again, there have been a lot of positive improvements.
People Eating Tasty Animals. Pass the butter.
Peta get a life
Since they decided to defile Fenway I shall eat an extra lobster the next time it’s on the menu (soon!)
Scientist have shown that plants can feel pain. Stop the senseless slaughter of millions of plants every day and stop eating vegetables.
so we are not allowed to eat meat and now they cannot eat vegetables. I guess as a race we will all starve.
It will solve the obesity epidemic problem, though
Then I guess we’re down to mushrooms (fungus).
Plants thrive on pain. Pinch back a few on a hardy masochist plant and watch and see if a lot of new shoots don’t sprout.
Can vegans eat animal crackers?
Probably not :)
Lobsters and PETA should be steamed and not heard
I don’t know a single person who purchases lobster from Hannaford…or any supermarket for that matter, we leave those for tourists.
I get mine straight off the boat, and while I could get it for free (my uncle’s boat), I always pay 3 dollars a pound over the going rate.
Support our lobstermen! Especially this season.
I was flagged for review for what?
Likely, a liberal flagged you for something and the knee jerk response is to censor you.
No, that’s more a Republican reaction.
Had to be a liberal. Republican wouldn’t take the time to flag.
I have no idea, but I do not flag anybody, for any reason.
Though we may not all agree, I respect your right to express your opinion.
I don’t need anybody filtering what I read, I have a mind of my own.
Thank you all you petas! After I wipe the melted
butter from my chin….I will NEVER eat another
lobster with a filet mignon again! Thank you for bringing
this awareness to the world. And thank you BDN for
putting out such an important article.
As always, PETA’s antics bring the Lobster Festival more publicity (and PARTICIPANTS) than the entire ad budget of the festival. The economy of the Mid-Coast appreciates their foolishness.
The festival gets free publicity from PETA and the PETA folks get to enjoy a fresh dose of feeling self righteous superiority over us “Neanderthals” who eat lobsters, so everybody’s happy. :)
I”m going to start PUETPETA, People for the Un-Ethical Treatment of PETA. I like it when the cute girls dress up like animals and display themselves in cages! It is a wicked good show. Maybe they coulsend up some cute women dressed in lobster outfits to protest the lobster fest. That would be a great addition to the event! Fools
With all the publicity generated by anything PETA does, I gotta wonder if they are actually paid by the marketing group for the Lobster festival or Maine Lobersterman’s Association? By the way, people are omnivores…we eat everything! Gotta go get the boiler going.
I am a proud member of PETL People eating tasty Lobster! :)
Why doesn’t PETA protest Bikers wearing leather at a Daytona, Laconia, or Sturgis?
because they would most likly get theyre behinds kicked around , they are to soft for that.
I would pay to see the outcome of that…
Afraid of getting thier @$$ kicked.
All in all it’s just another brick in the wall.
Pink lobster !
Remember the last time they knocked the Lobster Festival? They pictured red lobsters which everyone knows are cooked. When asked about it, they said that they knew that live lobsters were dark colored but that many people did not. Talk about counter productive.
Out of the thousands of licensed lobsterman in Maine, if PETA can provide us with jobs that pay 2-3G a day I’m sure we would all be much obliged to quit fishing. Until then, shut the hell up! I don’t go telling you to quit your job or tell others that they shouldn’t buy your product that your company may produce…At least we’re working and contributing to the economy! Good, we can take your tax dollars too!
if you are making 2-3 grand a day you are one hell of a fisherman!
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Just for the record, I don’t make that much but I haul with someone who does and I know many others that do. Plus its not everyday. There are many who don’t fish in the winter months. That money has to get them through the whole year. Plus thats when the fishing season is in it’s prime (the price too!). I think the majority of the season, 1,500 – 1,800 is most commonly seen. Anyway, I’ll take the prime! :-p
It’s been a few years since I’ve been by there during the event but I stopped going when they got rid of the bumper cars. Maybe their back now? The rides are certainly outdated no question about it!
Most fair/carnival rides are out dated and highly over priced. It’s not the fair or the town’s fault that they are but the company that owns them. It’s now something like $5.00 for a ride (.75-1.50 each ticket and it takes3-6 tickets for a ride), I’d rather spend it on Funtown.
Oh and …Come on outside and enjoy life, live dangerously and if all else fails then eat a lobstah ;)
So are you going to be blasting the Christians who are making the exodus to Chic-fil-et to support that company coming out against gay marriage? Think of all the extra chickens that will be slaughtered because of hate. At least Lobsterfest is a place of joy and a community coming together, they have some excuse for their evil destruction of an animal, but to kill all those chickens in the name of hate is almost Satanic. Seriously, it’s a lobster, not very high on the food chain, we are the top of the food chain. Do you complain to the big cats like lions and tigers when they slaughter impala and zebra?
Perhaps if you’d read the statement from the owner of Chic-fil-et you’d understand that he said ” I support traditional marriage”. Isn’t that what this upcoming vote is about , giving same sex couples the right to a traditional marriage. Seems some will get on a bandwagon every chance they get even if it’s going in the opposite direction. Are there any gay lobsters ?
That is right. He didn’t come out “against” anything.
Step out into the wild and see how high you are on the food chain.
I would still be the top, as my higher brain functioning, which puts me on the top of the food chain, would tell me to bring fire and firepower. A .50 cal Sniper rifle, AK-47, and matches would make me the highest on the food chain.
Yeah, right.
Don’t forget the salt and pepper.
I hate putting the suckers in the pot, I “feel their pain”, but I keep doing it.
The only way you can feel their pain is to put your fingers in the water.
Can it be assumed that your nervous system has evolved to that of a frickn’ lobster?
Tell me how it feels
I can under stand getting upset over larger “intelligent” mammals getting mistreated but Lobster’s? C’mon they are bottom feeding sea-bugs! Their brain is smaller than a grain of rice.
WOW,That makes their brains the same size of the PETA protesters.
The lobsters scored higher I.Q.
Should have had the lobster instead!
Hannaford and Shaws could go a long way toward helping Maine lobstermen if they’d drop their retail price a bit. Boat price running around $2.00 per lb / Hannaford price $7.99 and up…?
i was in hannaford yesterday and they were going for 5.99 a lb.
Lobster festival could drop their prices too
I believe they did.
You got to admit it’s clever. I’m sure Moon Beam or whomever at PETA came up with this idea, got an extra muffin with their herb tea as a bonus.
LOL. I think it was the shroom tea
Joke is on PETA. Fenway got a brick paid for & the Maine Lobster Festival gets a ton of free publicity.
Hey, at least they are all Free Range Lobsters!
I must repent. I took my grandson fishing and he skewered a poor defenseless worm on a hook without me protesting his actions. PETA please forgive me!
And the Roman god Neptune and/or Greek god Poseidon declare all ocean-bottom-feeding crustaceans may never swim, climb or heretoforth pile high upon each other! So as to not boil them alive, go for the baked-stuffed. Who’s up for surf and turf?
PETA……People Eating Tasty Animals.
People Enjoying The Attention
THAT……is a funny and intelligent post :)
what a waste of a brick……
Animals have rights!
They have the right to be tasty!
If we weren’t meant to eat lobsters, they wouldn’t be so tasty.
raining?
Very few people are carnivores. Most of us are omnivores.
I have to admit, it’s kind of clever.
Not gonna stop me from eatingh lobster, though. Sorry.
Do PETA members drive cars?
I’ve seen some disturbing scenes on the side of the road lately- dead racoons, foxes, skunks. Not a pretty sight. When will they protest the use of automobiles? I’m waiting…..
They have it all wrong…the best tasting lobster isn’t boiled it steamed!! in beer of course! :-)
Here is a vegetarian who does not support eating lobster, and also does not support PETA. Go have your lobster festival. I want nothing to do with it. But PETA is not the answer.
Must be slow news day….PETA is a religous cult and when they do stupid stuff for attention, the media eats it up. I guess we are all free to make fools of ourselves….
peta= useless waste of oxygen
Wonder if any members of “PETA ” have a brain larger than a lobster’s brain?
PETA says, “Lobsters should be allowed to pursue their own pleasures”. Like what, exactly? Are lobster brains even large enough to *have* any concept of pleasure? Yeeps.
And the rest of us should be free to enjoy life unhindered by the inane stunts and proclamations of PETA.
LOL. Those kooks have gone right over the edge of reality.
More stupid liberals.
eat my lobster claw
If vegetarians REALLY loved animals as much as they say, they would stop eating their food.
Haha! Absolutely brilliant. Mind if I borrow this for my own use?
lobsters are burned alive…….KARMA will come to you
??
Some of us put a knife through its head before we boil them. Problem solved!
some day the russians and chinese
are going to send nukes to this country
when they are going off and your screamin
in pain..,,it will be ur turn to feel like
a lobster enjoy
I’ll save you a seat
PETA,
Thank you for your seemingly unending supply of entertainment. Your message is constantly being lost in the stupidity of your antics. Keep it up!
Alsooo, the lobster buyers are where the money is at! I have no clue what they make to be honest but lets say at a minimum, 30cents a pound, if they buy 400 crates in a day at 90lbs = 36,000lbs thats $10,800. Now thats money!
Mmmm I’d take some of those lobsters up here in “da county!”
People
Eating
Tastey
Animals
Moto”I’M GOING TO KILL IT………….AND GRILL IT” SAID BEST FROM THE MOTOR CITY MADMAN!!!!!!! One brick up. Three lobstas down. Cost me less than your brick too.
PETA – People Eating Tasty Animals
That brick sure is going to forwar their cause. NOT. lol