Conn. Man Rescues 80-Year-Old Lobster From Restaurant Menu 26 Jul 2012 A 17-pound lobster on a restaurant menu would be a delicious dinner option for most people but not for one Connecticut man who saw it as a humanitarian mission. Don MacKenzie of Niantic, Conn., purchased the lobster from a local restaurant [The Dock] but never took a bite. Instead, he released it back into the Long Island Sound Tuesday because he thought the lobster, nicknamed “Lucky Larry” by the locals, deserved to live.