Lobster Karma

Heh:

Do you believe in Karma? Some local lobstermen were either the beneficiaries of good Karma or they were testing Karma’s hands.

Last week, 534 lobsters got a second chance at life, thanks to a group of Tibetan Buddhists. But that freedom turned out to be short-lived.

The group purchased the lobsters from a local seafood wholesaler, took them out on a whale-watching boat, blessed the crustaceans and set them free.

Isn't that wonderful? Well, it was wonderful for one lobster fishing boat:

The blog Good Morning Gloucester says the crew of the Gloucester-based Degelyse benefited from that good deed.

They received the coordinates of where the lobsters were released, then went out “and caught exactly 534 lobsters, the precise number the monks released” the next day.

The crew “would like to personally thank the Buddhist Monks who released (the) lobsters,” the blog post read.

“Thank you and come again next year Mr. Buddhist monks, we would like to invite you back again and again to purchase our lobsters and ‘restock the pond.’”

Could the Buddhists go to the Bering Sea next and drop in some King Crabs? The boys from Deadliest Catch could use the help.