The longtime dishwasher is always the man in charge of unpacking the lobsters, but in performing his regular duty on July 12, he came across something he — and most other people — had never seen before: an incredibly rare and vibrantly colored orange lobster.
“The first thought that went through his head was that he’s seen a blue lobster before, which was different, but he’s never seen an orange one,” Romero told the Pueblo Chieftain, part of the USA TODAY Network, through a translator. “When he saw it he just immediately was like … ‘Let me go get my leadership.’”