movieguy Posted March 3, 2005 Report Share Posted March 3, 2005 No Butter for Bubba Xposed, February 2005 By MIKE CRISSEY Associated Press Writer PITTSBURGH He could be older than Warner Bros. studio, General Motors, the Boy Scouts and the states of Arizona and New Mexico. He could have survived two world wars and Prohibition. He could have been dinner. He's Bubba, a 22-pound leviathan of a lobster pulled from the waters off Nantucket, Mass., and shipped to a Pittsburgh fish market. The lobster has been kept in a tank near a fish counter in Wholey's Market since Thursday while owner Bob Wholey tried to figure out what to do with it. "It is overwhelming," Wholey said. "If you see it, you will never forget it. Customers are just in awe." On Tuesday, Wholey gave the lobster to the Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium, which will send him to an aquarium at a Ripley's Believe It or Not museum. Based on how long it typically takes a lobster to reach eating size _ about five to seven years to grow to a pound _ some estimate Bubba is 100 years old. That would make the crustacean older than Warner Bros. (1907), the Boy Scouts (1910) and the states of Arizona and New Mexico (1912), not to mention the first commercial radio station (1920), television (1927) and computers (1943). links Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
movieguy Posted March 3, 2005 Author Report Share Posted March 3, 2005 It was shell of a life for 23-pound lobster March 3, 2005 PITTSBURGH -- Bubba, the huge lobster that got front-page treatment after a seafood store spared his life, died Wednesday afternoon at a Pittsburgh aquarium. The 23-pound lobster was estimated to have been old enough to have survived two world wars and Prohibition, not to mention the supper table. He was pulled from the waters off Nantucket, Mass., and shipped to a Pittsburgh fish market. Based on how long it typically takes a lobster to reach eating size -- about five to seven years per pound -- Bubba may have been 100 years old. On Tuesday, store owner Bob Wholey gave the lobster to the Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium. The cause of death was unknown. AP, with Scripps Howard News Service contributing Copyright © The Sun-Times Company All rights reserved. links Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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