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

TSA opens box for inspection and removes Dinnah for photos before putting it back in box - atop smaller lobsters

Published Fri, Jun 30, 2017 · 09:50 PM

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    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.

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