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Violent Demonstration
updated: Apr 23, 2012, 8:55 AM

By Edhat Subscriber

I'm trying to find out more about a strange, frankly unbelievable, story a couple of people witnessed this weekend at Earth Day. Saturday, on the Live Green Stage, a woman demonstrating the workings/strength of crabs was holding a live crab. Suddenly she slammed it on a piece of wood on stage, shattering the creature in front of the audience; body parts (innards) went flying. Does anyone have more information about this?

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COMMENT 273964	2012-04-23 09:16 AM
Hopefully the crab was not still attached to the poor person's genitals.
MTNDRIVER	2012-04-23 09:38 AM
Hmmm. A "a couple people" saw this? Sounds like a rumor getting started.
COMMENT 273985	2012-04-23 09:49 AM
I really hope this actually happened! Take that hippies!
ROGER DODGER	2012-04-23 09:54 AM
SNOT all hippies are non violent but some do have respect for the lives of animals. I'm a hippie feel free to try and do that to me and see what happens.
COMMENT 273989	2012-04-23 09:56 AM
This was not demonstrating the workings/strength of the crab but how to prepare and cook live crab. People avoid cooking them themselves because they swear they hear a scream when they put crab into a boiling pot of water. Splitting them in half is a way to quickly kill the animal prior to cooking it.
COMMENT 273994	2012-04-23 10:10 AM
I heard it's ok to kill any living animal as long as your car gets over 45mpg. Driving a car that gets good mileage proves you care about the earth more than any other action.
COMMENT 273995	2012-04-23 10:11 AM
Hope it's just a rumor. Doesn't sound like it should be something allowed at Earth Day.
LIZTISH340	2012-04-23 10:24 AM
One doesn't smash a crab to kill it before eating. There are better ways if you don't want to put it in boiling water. And, no, they don't scream. They don't have vocal cords nor do lobsters.
COMMENT 274005	2012-04-23 10:28 AM
Did you see all the garbage that was left over at the park? Earth Day = Hypocrisy
COMMENT 274011	2012-04-23 10:35 AM
crustaceans don't "scream." It is the air escaping the endoskeleton when being boiled or steamed.
ROGER DODGER	2012-04-23 10:38 AM
Do humans scream when you throw then in a pot of boiling water to cook them?
COMMENT 274022P	2012-04-23 10:52 AM
994 for the win.
COMMENT 274025	2012-04-23 10:56 AM
The reason this was at Earth Day was to get people to eat local seafood. There are many ways to prep and clean crab, this is one of them. If it doesn't work for you then don't do it but it is a great way to quickly kill and clean them.
COMMENT 274034	2012-04-23 11:22 AM
@994 LOL
COMMENT 274044	2012-04-23 11:46 AM
I heard it's ok to kill and eat any live animal as long as you wear hemp clothing, smoke weed, AND drive a car that gets 45 or more mpg. And oppose all drilling, even though people seriously need jobs and green energy is only 2.3% of the state's total employment. Oh yeah, and let the farms in the valley become dust bowls because a little fish got caught in the pumps. 50% unemployment in the valley is bad, but that little fish is important! Speaking of those, don't eat steelhead trout. We all need to care about the earth, and these are the actions that prove you care!
COMMENT 274046P	2012-04-23 11:55 AM
I found the Earth Day schedule online and apparently there was a seafood demonstration on the Live Green Stage. Perhaps this was the "frankly unbelievable" event that the OP -- who wasn't there -- could have looked up.
COMMENT 274062	2012-04-23 12:25 PM
How does this person "prep" beef?
COMMENT 274067	2012-04-23 12:33 PM
Anyone who propagates this random rumor is a hipocrite. All who label first without looking in the mirror are insecure.
ROGER DODGER	2012-04-23 12:39 PM
People who post anonymous comments, are anonymous.
COMMENT 274073	2012-04-23 12:42 PM
I am in the crab business , and though I was not there I can tell you that if a crab is allowed to close down a pincher onto your finger , they are like a hydrolic press and just keep increasing the "bite" until they either break your finger or you hurl them against something to smash and kill them . You can still cook them if you put them in boiling water immediately . If you delay cooking ,thier meat becomes spoiled with an ammonia like compound caused by decomposition and becomes poisiness to humans.
COMMENT 274083	2012-04-23 01:07 PM
these comments are hilarious!
COMMENT 274087	2012-04-23 01:11 PM
I shoot mine at point blank range. Most humane method out there.
COMMENT 274095	2012-04-23 01:17 PM
There were so many booths using wax coated cups that aren't recyclable and lots of paper handouts that ended up on the ground. There were many very cool things and lots of yummy free snacks, including a booth that gave out fresh oranges that we indulged in but sad to see many non-recyclable items there.
COMMENT 274115	2012-04-23 01:49 PM
fish, ick
COMMENT 274129	2012-04-23 02:21 PM
Ahhhh....the commercialization of Earth Day. Brought to you by the same group of people making billions off the newly invented "Green" industry. There's a sucker born every second.
D8VANILLA	2012-04-23 03:13 PM
@087 --- Shooting it with a few spit-wads??? I hope the parents had enough time to warn the kids before they brutally killed the animal..... Humans just LOVE to kill and destroy things.
COMMENT 274166	2012-04-23 03:50 PM
LOL!!! I have to say I'm glad to see I'm not the only one in SB that thinks the Prius-driving (or 'Pius' as they're referred to on South Park), soy-milk drinking, hemp clothes wearing in this town is funny as hell. It's like a mini-Portlandia in SB these days. And I'm a liberal Democrat!
COMMENT 274176	2012-04-23 04:01 PM
I should have crashed my hybrid in anger over a this horrid massicar
COMMENT 274177P	2012-04-23 04:04 PM
Two Earth Weekend observations: @005 The trash in the park was amazing! Also, there was a lot of litter in the neighborhood. It would be nice if the City would require organizers of events to clean up the neighbor after an event in the park. Cox Cable had a "clean" truck there to promote how green a company they are. What a joke! Check out how hot your cable box is! Now that Cox Box is one heck of an energy vampire. Quite possibily the worse energy waster in the house. Can't they provide more efficient boxes? Can't the City Council require more efficient boxes since they are the ones that grant Cox its monoply?
COMMENT 274261P	2012-04-23 08:00 PM
Did they serve simply pies after this crab demolition?
COMMENT 274324	2012-04-24 07:35 AM
It was a cooking demonstration. It did occur, as I happened by when it was going on. Personally, I don't see it as any less humane than popping them into boiling water. YMMV.
COMMENT 274342	2012-04-24 08:09 AM
The demo was for the new Community Supported Fishery (CSF) that they are trying to start in the SB area. It is very similar to the Community Supported Agriculture program, but instead of a basket of veggies, you get a basket of sea food. We have a quality rock crab fishery in the Santa Barbara area. Many of the lobster fishermen are crab fishermen when lobster is out of season. Oyster, mussels, spot prawns, and many different types of fish will also be available in this program. I can see how this would be surprising the the casual observer, but it is either toss the live crab in boiling water and get the flavor of guts in the meat, or kill it instantly. Then you can remove the guts and cook it the proper way.
COMMENT 274363	2012-04-24 08:40 AM
thanx for laughs - the comments are hilarious - and yes - how do you prepare cattle, pigs, chickens, etc.?
FLICKA	2012-04-24 09:47 AM
If a person is a vegan or vegetarian I can maybe understand being upset over the crab killing. For a cooking demonstration, it seems perfectly acceptable. If you're a meat eater, how do you suppose the animal gets to your table? Has to be killed!
COMMENT 274416P	2012-04-24 09:54 AM
May have been a bit uncomfortable to watch - but probably a reality check. Are you a meat eater? Check out some videos of slaughter houses and how your beef is slaughtered. Just because you don't see the killing doesn't make it any less violent.Something to consider if you eat animals. Sea food is a great local food resource for us Santa Barbarians. It is good to know what is available and how to prepare it. Right here off our own coast!
COMMENT 274424	2012-04-24 10:12 AM
Crabs live in the ocean,crabs are bottom-feeders,humans live on land,humans throw pollutants into the ocean,pollutants sink,crabs eat pollutants,humans eat crabs.mmmmmmm
COMMENT 274625	2012-04-25 07:28 AM
How did you kill your salad? You ate it while it was still alive i bet. Everything you eat is alive. If you don't think plants are sentient you must be on the head in the sand diet.
COMMENT 274688	2012-04-25 11:02 AM
My dad won't eat lobster, they are bottom feeders.

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