How a Grocery Store Rescue Lobster Called Leon Broke the Internet

His destiny was dinner until he won the lobster lottery.

Fiona Cameron Lister
10 min readJan 20, 2022

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Leon, the luckiest lobster in the world. Image courtesy of Brady Brandwood

Even by YouTube viral animal rescue tale standards, this is the most unlikely of successes. Yet the heart-warming story of how filmmaker Brady Brandwood bought a live lobster from his local grocery store and then cared for it rather than cooked it has racked…

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Fiona Cameron Lister

Experienced British writer/editor/mentor in Italy | MWC semi-finalist| Loves words, history, humour, unusual subjects| Contact: fcameronlister@gmail.com