The diner took the daring crayfish home and is now raising it in an aquarium.
A crayfish remarkably managed to remove its own claw in order to escape a boiling hot pot in a restaurant in China.
Footage shared on social media platform Weibo appears to show the crustacean making a daring getaway from a hot soup pan as the dish was brought to the table.
But things were complicated when its left claw remained submerged in the pan, hindering its exit.
In a mind-blowing turn of events, the crayfish hacks away at its own claw until it falls back into the pan, allowing it to escape.
People on Weibo called for the crayfish not to be eaten. “Let him go,” one user insisted, while another posted, “don’t eat him, seeing how hard he’s trying to survive.”
According to the Evening Standard, the diner decided to keep the crayfish after witnessing the event.
“I let him live,” he told a Taiwanese new site. “I already took him home and I’m raising him in an aquarium.”
Parallels have been made to John Sturges’ classic World War II film The Great Escape on social media, as well as one erotic novel which was humorously re-titled ‘Fifty Shades of Cray’.
Others pointed to James Franco’s movie 127 hours in which a mountain climber is forced to sever his right arm with a dull knife after getting trapped in a canyon.
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