In article >,
notbob > wrote:

> On 2005-11-02, Dan Abel > wrote:
>
> > I'm going to be having nightmares tonight!
>
> Yeah, me too.
>
> They really are hideous. I saw a guy catch one in the SF Bay almost
> under the GG bridge. It was so ugly the guy almost threw it back, not
> knowing what it was or what to do with it. It had onlookers backing
> up and going "eeuuwwww!". A Chinese fellow explained what it was and
> took it off his hands. The local variety are much smaller, but they
> decorate their shell with crud and look all deformed and corroded,
> like something out of a nightmare. I suspect that one in the tank
> would look even scarier in its natural habitat.
>
> nb

Looked delicious to me....... ;-)
LOTS of leg meat! The best part!
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