I was visiting Stanstead Abbotts on Tuesday and was concerned to see that several panes of glass had been smashed in the red public telephone box. On closer inspection, I saw - amidst the fragments of glass strewn about the floor of the kiosk - the body of a, by now, dead crab.
Photos available at:
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This led to several worrying thoughts:
Did the crab try to rob or squat the phone box? Just another case of littering? Are crabs now so tough or hoodlums so desperate?
Did the crab try to rob or squat the phone box?
Just another case of littering?
Are crabs now so tough or hoodlums so desperate?
Any light that could be shed upon this mystery would be greatly appreciated.
CSB
I just counted the legs (10) which, I suppose, probably makes it a lobster rather than a crab. Not so many opportunities for bad puns, but it still begs the question "what was it doing there?"
I checked the telephone box again and it turns out the crustacean in question is in fact a crayfish. White-clawed crayfish or the American signal crayfish? It appears to have been cooked, so my rudimentary knowledge of multiple-limbed shell-dwellers has been stretched to its limits - does anyone have any ideas about which is it, or even what it is doing there?
Thanks,
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