Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin dead

News.com.au ^ | September 4, 2006

[lepton]

and while in the ER, I was futher rubbed with Adolfs meat tenderizer

...However, it wasn't until they rolled me in the minced garlic and prepared to cauterize the wounds that I realized I wasn't in the ER at all...

Seriously though...it is surprising how multipurpose some foods/spices are. I'm surprised that they didn't use some generic equivalent to Adolphs.

[Nasher]

Though the stingray is basically skittish, and incidents are usually the result of carelessness or ignorance, attacks do occur more than people realize. In fact, statistics show that there are 5,000 stingray attacks reported each year in the United States alone, with injures ranging from minor stings to severe lacerations compounded by major complications that can result in paralysis or even amputation.

http://www.jerrylabella.com/stingray.html

This is shocking to me with the whole Stingray City being so popular in the Bahamas. Hopefully, Steve's passing will result in awareness about this potential danger and perhaps lead to less stingray injuries and deaths.

He was a good man, prayers to his family.

[Screamname]

From Wikipedia:

Biography

Early years

Born in Essendon, a suburb of Melbourne, Steve Irwin moved with his parents as a child to Queensland. His parents, Bob and Lyn, ran the small Queensland Reptile and Fauna Park, where Steve grew up around crocodiles and other reptiles. He became a crocodile trapper, removing crocodiles from near populated areas, performing the service for free with the quid pro quo that he kept them for the park. As a child, he had a negative encounter with a macaw, which throughout his life left him with a fear of parrots.

Parrots?

[pepsionice]

We should remember Steve as the most fearless man to have lived in our time. I think he could have done anything in life he wanted...he choose to live a life of danger. And most everything he did....represents the life that Teddy Roosevelt would have done. When you compare the two...the belief in conservation, living life to the fullest, and being honest in your convictions...they are a match. I think Steve will be deserving of alot of honors...but just being the "most fearless man to ever live"...might be enough.

[Mr Ramsbotham]

Who is crazy? It was his job, his living, his passion for knowledge.

Essentially, he was a professional entertainer, and as such, helped thousands of other people, not so visible, earn their livings. It's not as if he was some redneck pulling a dumb "hold mah beer" stunt. He knew what he was doing, and did it in a calculated way. Much as some of us would like to think it, there's no profound life's lesson to be learned here.

[lepton]

OMG! 10 ft tenticles?!!! That would be the end of me.

They are a bit more like filaments than "tentacles"...but they can be up to 150 or so feet long.

[AmeriBrit]

We live way out in the SW desert and it was through watching the 'Crocodile Hunter' shows that I became aware of watching out for the baby rattlers as they are more dangerous than the adults. The adults will usually give a warning before they strike but the babies just strike, no warning.

[calljack]

His wife doesn't even know yet. she is hiking in tibet or some place remote like that. The whole world knows but her.

[Mr Ramsbotham]

OK, its time for retribution. Has that sting-ray been captured or killed ? I would like to see it killed by its own barb.

Throw it in a prison aquarium with a shark named Bubba.

[MJY1288]

Unlike you!.... Steve Irwin lived to inform all of us about the dangers the wildlife poses to all of us. You on the other hand are a miserable malcontent that contributes absolutely NOTHING and complains about everything. And your posting history backs me up...

Have a rotten life, you've earned it!

[HairOfTheDog]

I'll take your word for it, and I don't doubt it :~)

[JeffAtlanta]

Here at the Georgia Aquarium there is touch tank as well with rays but there are very small. They may be a species that doesn't have stingers (if one exists) or they may be too young to have them.

[HairOfTheDog]

Remarkable :~)

[mysterio]

Is this for real?

[SWAMPSNIPER]

"I've long worried, though, that young children might be tempted into trying to handle snakes".

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I was "tempted", before I ever saw my first TV set. I gave it up when I wasn't sure I was still faster than the snakes. I can tell my grandson to be careful, but I know he's going to try his wings, he's made that way.
I sure hope we raise some more kids with ballocks and backbones, the present crop of metrosexuals isn't good for anything.

[Azzurri]

OK, its time for retribution. Has that sting-ray been captured or killed ? I would like to see it killed by its own barb. The poison may not kill it, but repeated punctures might.

Maybe we should look introspectively at why the sting-ray lashed out. Perhaps humans were the real cause and the sting-ray was merely a victim of his environment?
< /crazy lib response>

[FreedomCalls]

Hopefully, Steve's passing will result in awareness about this potential danger and perhaps lead to less stingray injuries and deaths.

The Australian radio station 2GB interviewed someone who says that there have only been some 70 deaths from stingrays worldwide, ever.

[blondee123]

I thought that too, he was a copy-cat, but not a very good one, as he hasn't got the personality to pull in the audience!

[lepton]

I was leery of them even when they were dead on the beach :~)

"Dead" is a matter of degrees. You can still get stung even after they've washed up for some time. As I understand, they are sufficiently decentralized that some parts can be dead while other parts are just fine.

[Finny]

He could have just as easily choked on a ham sandwich.

You're a philosopher! :^ )