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50-year-old lobster returning home to Maine
PORT ANGELES (AP) -- Sometime soon -- maybe Wednesday -- Hercules the lobster should once again feel the cooling waters of the Atlantic Ocean.
Thanks to middle school students, the supermarket that was his temporary home and other businesses in Port Angeles, in northwestern Washington State, the 14-pound lobster is headed back to his New England home.
Hercules -- born when Harry Truman was in the White House -- should arrive in Maine Wednesday after a journey by express mail. He'll spend about 10 days in Friendship, Maine, under the close watch of biologists from The Lobster Conservancy before being set free.
Hercules, believed to be 50 to 60 years old, was up for sale in the meat department of a Port Angeles supermarket for about a week when his photograph appeared in the Peninsula Daily News.
That's when the middle school students and faculty got involved to save him from a supersized lobster pot.
The supermarket donated him to the kids, the local Federal Express office offered to ship him to Maine, a general store donated a cooler and shipping supplies, and a fish company offered advice on how to pack him. He was loaded up yesterday for a red-eye flight to the East Coast.
PORT ANGELES (AP) -- Sometime soon -- maybe Wednesday -- Hercules the lobster should once again feel the cooling waters of the Atlantic Ocean.
Thanks to middle school students, the supermarket that was his temporary home and other businesses in Port Angeles, in northwestern Washington State, the 14-pound lobster is headed back to his New England home.
Hercules -- born when Harry Truman was in the White House -- should arrive in Maine Wednesday after a journey by express mail. He'll spend about 10 days in Friendship, Maine, under the close watch of biologists from The Lobster Conservancy before being set free.
Hercules, believed to be 50 to 60 years old, was up for sale in the meat department of a Port Angeles supermarket for about a week when his photograph appeared in the Peninsula Daily News.
That's when the middle school students and faculty got involved to save him from a supersized lobster pot.
The supermarket donated him to the kids, the local Federal Express office offered to ship him to Maine, a general store donated a cooler and shipping supplies, and a fish company offered advice on how to pack him. He was loaded up yesterday for a red-eye flight to the East Coast.
