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Kids In Maine Pay $3,400 To Liberate Lobsters

PORTLAND, Maine -- Freedom has a price. In this case, the price is nearly $3,400 for 300 lobsters.

Pete McAleney said 10 young people showed up at his New Meadows Lobster Pound in Maine and bought all of his one-clawed lobsters. He said the lobster lovers called the crustaceans "God's creatures" and vowed to free them.

McAleney said he told the group the lobsters would probably just be caught again. He said the young people said at least the lobsters would get a second chance.

McAleney said he did not know the identity of the lobster liberators.

[Via -TheDenverChannel.Com]

$1 Parking Ticket Paid After 26 Years

A $1 parking ticket from 1980 has been paid off, after the offender sent the payment along with a $3 late fee to police without giving a name.

"It's kind of cool that someone took the time to take care of their obligation after 26 years," police Capt. Mike Babe told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel for a story posted online Monday. "Maybe their conscience got to them."

The signature on the money order used to pay for the ticket is not legible, and the return address reads: "Someone who keeps way too many old papers way too long." The envelope carried a Chicago postmark.