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Long Island restaurant frees 110-year-old lobster weighing 21 lbs.
A Long Island lobster who's been alive for more than a century is tasting freedom this weekend thanks to the Hempstead eatery that set him free.
Peter's Clam Bar owner Butch Yamali told Pix11 it was time to put the 21-pound crustacean back to the Atlantic Ocean from whence it likely came 110 years ago.
'Some of these lobsters just don't live that long, and this one did. So we figured what better way to celebrate Father's Day than by freeing Lorenzo,' said the restaurateur, who noted that Sunday is also National Lobster Day.
Yamali said Lorenzo 'kind of slipped through the cracks' and wound up in his fish tank, where customers photographed themselves with the eatery's oldest resident.
Hempstead Town Supervisor Don Clavin posted photos of Lorenzo's 'retirement' party on Facebook Thursday afternoon.
'After more than a decade at Peter's Clam Bar in Island Park, this local celeb is trading tank life for sea life and we couldn't be happier to give him his freedom,' he wrote.
Clavin credited Legislator John Ferretti with helping give Lorenzo 'a one-way boat ride, sirens and all, to the peaceful waters of the Atlantic Beach Reef.'
