Lobster owner sees red over TSA staff posing for photographs with his 9kg Dinnah

IN the final hours of its life last weekend, it was plucked from anonymity, nestled in darkness at the bottom of an insulated cooler and given a name: Dinnah, like how a Mainer might pronounce the last meal of the day.

Its fate was sealed, literally, with Dinnah placed at the bottom and a layer of smaller friends on top in the cooler, which was wrapped with duct tape.

Its owner, Christopher Stracuzza, a 32-year-old auto-body repairman from Savannah, Georgia, wanted Dinnah, a hulking 20-pound (9kg) American lobster, and another 20 pounds of more-modest crustaceans to reach their final destination peacefully.

"You don't think a lobster gets stressed, too?" asked Mr Stracuzza.

But the lobsters' final journey, from a tank at a seafood market in Connecticut to a propane cooker in Savannah, was bumpy and controversial, and included a brush wit…