PETA wants to put up a 5-ft. tombstone memorial on the side of Route 1 in Brunswick where a Cozy Harbor Seafood truck, carrying nearly 70 crates of lobster, rolled over and crushed several of them. The Maine Department of Transportation has rationally responded with, "Uh ... no."
http://wgme.com/news/local/maine-dot-denies-request-from-peta-to-put-up-memorial-for-lobsters-killed-in-crash
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence