I have searched high and wide for Carleton Place’s Lobster John from the land of fish-sticks but the tide wasn’t bringing in any answers. Some of his lobsters must have went to the Big Brothers of Lanark County Lobster Stag Night in 1978.
The top door prize at Hanley Hall in Smiths Falls that night donated by our own Caldwell School in Carleton Place was pignapped during the festivities. That’s right, Arnold the Pig, a 30 pound live piglet, was lifted.
The local police and CJET were notified and he was soon recovered. No word where he was found, nor was Lobster John involved in the mix. Arnold was won by a local newspaper editor who, faced with the prospect of explaining away a live piglet to his wife at 2am declined the prize and auctioned him off.
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