Guests at a fund-raising dinner on Cape Cod, Mass., were a bit surprised when one of the guests decided to “rescue” portions of the menu. “I went by the pot where they had the lobsters,” said Arlene Ellis. “They were saying, ‘Take me back to the beach’.” She grabbed several and ran to her car, chased by the caterers. She got away, drove to the shore, and released the lobsters into the surf. She later returned and tried to buy shellfish from the plates of other diners. “She was yelling, ‘I’m saving the lobsters, I’m saving the lobsters’,” said one witness. “Her husband Tom was sitting at a table with about 10 people eating his lobster and pretending nothing was going on.” Ellis said later that “anyone who saw those poor creatures would have done the same thing.” (Boston Herald) …Apparently her husband was eating with his eyes closed.

(Excerpted with permission of the author from This Is True by Randy Cassingham.)