One game that most Dads like to play with their kids is the Claw. You know, the one where you make your hand into a claw shape and chase the kids while shouting "Here comes the Claw!", and the kids run away squealing with delight and terror, before you lunge at them with the Claw and everyone dissolves in hysterics. I don't know if it's related to the arcade claw game, where you pay your money for the chance of manipulating a mechanical claw into a position over some prizes, before it plunges down and hopefully latches onto something, then drops whatever it has into a chute from where you can retrieve it.

In the movie Toy Story, Woody and Buzz found themselves in a Pizza Planet restaurant, and Buzz desperate to get home climbs into a claw game shaped liked a rocket ship, full of little plastic aliens who happen to worship the claw as something that would take them to a better place. The local bully Sid plays the game and manages to snag Buzz with Woody holding on to his leg for dear life, only in this case our heroes aren't going to a better place, far from it.

Maybe that is how Maine lobsters will feel too.

I came across Dan Carlson's business site the other day, and he was spruiking a brand new claw game. It is an aquarium filled with live Maine lobsters, inside a claw game and you get to manipulate the claw and hopefully win yourself a lobster dinner. Now wouldn't it be nice for the lobsters to fight back?

Claw to claw fighting, so to speak.