Don MacKenzie of Niantic, Conn., purchased the lobster from a local restaurant but never took a bite. Instead, he released it back into the Long Island Sound Tuesday because he thought the lobster, nicknamed “Lucky Larry” by the locals, deserved to live.

“It takes seven years for him to even become a lobster big enough to keep,” MacKenzie told The Day of New London. “For a lobster to live this long and avoid lobster traps, nets, lobster pots … he doesn’t deserve a bib and butter.” Continue