Two brothers from New Jersey paid $210 for a 22-pound lobster in Cape Cod last week hoping to save it from being someone's dinner, according to a report.
But two days after the twins set it free, a fisherman found the massive crustacean dead in the area where they released it, The Cape Cod Times reports.
The brothers, Chris Schmidt, of Lincoln Park, and David Schmidt, of Westwood, had named the lobster "Big Lobi" after Red Sox star David Ortiz, the report says.
A marine expert told the Cape Cod Times, Big Lobi most likely didn't survive because the water off Chatham was too warm.
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