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Patron pays 1,300 euros to save lobsters from pot
Aug 12, 2009, 11:52 GMT
Zagreb - A Slovenian tourist recently spent 1,300 euros (1,850 dollars) to save some 30 live lobsters at a restaurant on the Croatian coast, the daily newspaper Jutarnji List reported Wednesday.
The unidentified Slovene was acting on the wish of his daughter, who initially took out her purse and offered her pocket money to buy one lobster from the Niko restaurant in Zadar.
'We had 60 to 70 kilos of lobsters in the aquarium that day ... and we released all that were not reserved by guests,' said Niko's owner, Erik Pavin.
The guest and his party of four adults and four children, aided by the staff, then released the animals into the water, one by one. Pavin said the Slovenian guest even convinced him to pay for one of the lobsters.
The man ignored some heckling that he could have spent the money on charity for humans, and he left without giving his name, the newspaper said.
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