A shrimp trawler off the coast of Maine caught one of the world’s biggest lobsters!

The lobster, of which scientists are not sure of the age, measures 40 inches long. For comparison purposes, average lobster size is 10 to 20 inches.

The lobster was caught on Friday by fisherman Robert Malone.

Malone named it Rocky, because it was caught near Rockland, Maine.

He gave it to the Department of Marine Resources, which says it has never seen a lobster this big.

Rocky will soon be released back into the wild, where it will live a normal life.

The biggest lobster ever caught in Maine, with claws strong enough to snap a man’s arm, was given to the Department of Marine Resources for its aquarium in Boothbay Harbor. And they released the giant lobster.

The lobster is the biggest ever brought to the aquarium, surpassing the previous biggest one by 4 pounds. It’s downright huge compared to lobsters people eat, which typically weigh between 1 and 2 pounds.

The biggest lobster on record was caught off Nova Scotia and weighed more than 44 pounds.

UPDATE – The killer crustacean has finally been identified as George the giant lobster’s son!

Last September, Weekly World News reported on a giant lobster that attacked an innocent diver. The lobster was never found, but recently a 140-year old lobster was released back into the wild after living at the City Crab and Seafood restaurant in New York City.

Weekly World News was able to speak to George for a moment before he departed into the waters off Boothbay Harbor, Maine. In a heavy New England accent, George admitted, “Yeah, that boy was unfortunately my son. I say was ‘cos we ain’t speakin’ no more. I ain’t got no problem with the humans – they let me come back to my home and everythin’. I could not abide by his actions, and he was officially disowned!”

George then slipped off the bow of the boat and disappeared into the waves. Will George’s disapproval stop his son from striking again?

September 4, 2008

Colossal mutations declare war on humans, warns scientist!

The great white shark and the giant squid are no longer the most fearsome predators lurking in the world’s oceans.

Their place as the primo monster of the deep has been taken by a mutant strain of enormous lobsters — and one scientist fears the mammoth creatures are waging a bloody war of vengeance against human beings.

In the second such incident ever recorded — the first was reported by Weekly World News in 2002 — a diver barely escaped with his life after being attacked by one of the lobsters off the coast of Maine last month.

Mark Lagrange was diving near Kennebunkport — the site of the 2002 attack and the summer home of former president George H.W. Bush — when the aggressive shellfish sprung without warning and grabbed him around the torso with its powerful pincers.

“I was minding my own business, swimming around and looking at the sea life, when I felt a searing pain,” Lagrange says. “I looked around and saw my blood gushing into the ocean and this humongous lobster hanging onto me.

“It shook me like a rag doll. I thought I was going to break in half!

“All I could think of was the times I’ve eaten lobster — boiled, broiled, steamed, grilled. “I realized it was payback time. This giant lobster was going to eat me!”

Lagrange managed to free himself from the lobster’s vise-like grip in the nick of time. He swam to the surface, where his diving companions pulled him into their boat and applied a tourniquet to his gashed leg.

Marine biologist Henrietta Newman performed the autopsy on the lobster originally found in 2002 and stated, “What I found truly shocked me. Apart from its freakish size — it was 30 feet long and weighed 587 pounds — I discovered brain abnormalities that are cause for genuine alarm.

“Lobsters are very primitive creatures. Normally their brains — if you can even call them that — are the size of a grain of rice. But this lobster’s brain was as big as that of a 4-year-old child.

“Even more disturbing, it had a prefrontal cortex, the part of the brain that deals with cognition, planning and regulating social behavior. This lobster had the ability to think and plot revenge.

“Some kind of rapid evolution is going on in the lobster world. And it’s not a stretch of the imagination to theorize that these creatures are sick and tired of ending up on our dinner plates.

“I think they’re plotting a revolution and plan to pick us humans off one by one. I strongly urge everyone to stay out of the water to avoid becoming lobster feed.”

BURLINGTON, VT – Over the holidays, Matt Dillon was arrested for driving 106mph in rural Vermont.  His reason for doing so: “Manigator made me do it.”

According to police reports Matt Dillon claims that he met Manigator in a dive in New York City and the two hit it off.  After several hours, Dillon agreed to give the half-man half-alligator a ride.

Shortly after beginning their trip, Manigator began taunting Dillon for the way he drove, encouraging to him to go faster and faster.

“Partly I wanted to shut him up, but mostly I just wanted to get to Maine faster so I could drop him off and be rid of him.”

As soon as the police arrived, according to Dillon, Manigator began to panic and leapt out the window before the car had even come to a complete stop.  Police did not see the cryptid, only the dozens of cheep beer cans he left scattered in the floorboard.  Dillon said “Come on, I don’t drink that crap!  I’m Matt Dillon!”

He then began to shout about a half-man half-alligator with a drinking problem, so police brought him in for questioning and several drug tests.

Dillon is currently being charged with excessive speeding and authorities are on the lookout for Manigator.  No one is sure why he may be going to Maine, but all nursing homes in the state have been placed on high alert.

Colossal mutations declare war on humans, warns scientist!

The great white shark and the giant squid are no longer the most fearsome predators lurking in the world’s oceans.

Their place as the primo monster of the deep has been taken by a mutant strain of enormous lobsters — and one scientist fears the mammoth creatures are waging a bloody war of vengeance against human beings.

In the second such incident ever recorded — the first was reported by Weekly World News in 2002 — a diver barely escaped with his life after being attacked by one of the lobsters off the coast of Maine last month.

Mark Lagrange was diving near Kennebunkport — the site of the 2002 attack and the summer home of former president George H.W. Bush — when the aggressive shellfish sprung without warning and grabbed him around the torso with its powerful pincers.

“I was minding my own business, swimming around and looking at the sea life, when I felt a searing pain,” Lagrange says. “I looked around and saw my blood gushing into the ocean and this humongous lobster hanging onto me.

“It shook me like a rag doll. I thought I was going to break in half!

“All I could think of was the times I’ve eaten lobster — boiled, broiled, steamed, grilled. “I realized it was payback time. This giant lobster was going to eat me!”

Lagrange managed to free himself from the lobster’s vise-like grip in the nick of time. He swam to the surface, where his diving companions pulled him into their boat and applied a tourniquet to his gashed leg.

While speeding him to a hospital on shore, they radioed the Coast Guard, who captured and killed the crazed crustacean and brought the creature’s massive body to the lab of marine biologist Henrietta Newman.

“I personally performed a necropsy on the lobster and what I found truly shocked me,” the scientist says. “Apart from its freakish size — it was 30 feet long and weighed 587 pounds — I discovered brain abnormalities that are cause for genuine alarm.

“Lobsters are very primitive creatures. Normally their brains — if you can even call them that — are the size of a grain of rice. But this lobster’s brain was as big as that of a 4-year-old child.

“Even more disturbing, it had a prefrontal cortex, the part of the brain that deals with cognition, planning and regulating social behavior. This lobster had the ability to think and plot revenge.

“Some kind of rapid evolution is going on in the lobster world. And it’s not a stretch of the imagination to theorize that these creatures are sick and tired of ending up on our dinner plates.

“I think they’re plotting a revolution and plan to pick us humans off one by one. I strongly urge everyone to stay out of the water to avoid becoming lobster feed.”