Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin dead

News.com.au ^ | September 4, 2006

[lunarbicep]

He was killed in a freak accident in Cairns, police sources said. It is understood he was killed by a sting-ray barb that went through his chest.

He was swimming off the Low Isles at Port Douglas filming an underwater documentary and that's when it occured.

[blondee123]

Parrots?

I used to own parrots & their beaks are strong enough to take a finger off if they desire to.

[ABG(anybody but Gore)]

Prayers going up for Terri and the kids, and Steve Irwin deserves every bit of praise we can do for the sake of nature. But Steve played with fire and sad as it is to say, the fire finally caught up with him. May he Rest In Peace.

[JeffAtlanta]

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.

I have to believe that this is overstated by the source. that is over 10 stingray attacks everyday of the year. If there were that many "attacks" here in the US everyday they would have a reputation of being vicious.

I have to believe that most of those are minor scratches.

[George W. Bush]

Steve Irwin lived to inform all of us about the dangers the wildlife poses to all of us.

No, he made a living by exposing himself to dangerous animals. You found it entertaining and don't like when someone points out the nature of your little habit.

It's not difficult to tell how many of you are city people with little experience of animals and wildlife. Being endangered by animals really isn't entertainment except to couch potatoes watching someone else do it on the telly.

[norton]

There has been some pretty inane stuff posted on this subject...
An Australian crocodile hunter taught someone about baby rattlers that I learned on meeting the little buggers the first time in the same neighborhood?..

But this man managed to draw people into his own manner of thinking about nature; he entertained and educated (just a bit) at the same time, and he certainly left behind a lot of people who gained from the simple act of tuning into some cable channel.

Good for him.

[Richard Kimball]

His FindaGrave page is already up, here.

[blondee123]

You truly are annoying, are you sure you are on the correct website? Maybe you took a wrong turn when trying to get to the RAT site! You sure sound like a hard line LIB!

[NinoFan]

I do hope you realize that you come off as a total jerk.

[lepton]

From wikipedia:

Poison
The sting from the tentacles is potentially dangerous to most humans; these stings have been responsible for several deaths, but usually only cause excruciating pain. Detached tentacles and specimens washed up on shore can sting just as painfully as the full creature in the water, for weeks after detachment.


BTW, my earlier comments about 150 long filaments is after they are relaxed and fully stretched out. They're normally about a third their relaxed length.

[Screamname]

Unreal...His page on Wikipedia is updated already as well..How is this done? Do these websites actually have people who are ready at a moments notice to update this stuff?

[Berlin_Freeper]

It's sad but at least he was not taunting and dangling his baby like a piece of meat in front of the stingray. That would have been sadder.

[Finny]

Performer??? The guy liked what he was doing. He was passionate. He wasn't doing it for the money, for Pete's sake!! The money was doing it for him!!

Unless I've missed something, I haven't seen anyone here say that his death was "unfair" or even surprising. Just sad. You gotta admire a guy with the balls to go after his passion. And I think people who were so self-righteously outraged at him when he had his baby with him around crocs, are being prigs. Sheesh. Danger is part of life. Living a life bent on avoiding it can be perilous to many men's (and women's!) souls!

[burzum]

Enough of your hate! Astronauts play with fire and it inspires children to study science and technology. Steve Irwin played with fire and undoubtably inspired children to study and respect nature. The world is better because of him.

[George W. Bush]

I do hope you realize that you come off as a total jerk.

You mean as opposed to parasitic couch potatoes who cry crocodile tears when someone predicably dies from endangering himself with wildlife for their entertainment?

It's like all the bilge and tears over Siegfried and Roy when one of them stuck their heads in the lion's mouth and got it bit off. Gee, what a surprise. And we would never have expected that to happen. Oh, the humanity.

Spare me the hypocrisy. Without people like the ones on this thread, his children would not be fatherless and grieving tonight. But at least you were all entertained by him, eh? No doubt, you're entertained by getting to grieve for him too.

[George W. Bush]

Astronauts play with fire and it inspires children to study science and technology.

Not remotely the same.

[Berlin_Freeper]

"But at least you were all entertained by him, eh?"

I hope they got it on video, he would have wanted it that way.

[FourPeas]

You proved NinoFan's point.

[blondee123]

His FindaGrave page is already up, here.

Someone already tried to post something negative on there, glad to see they are monitoring it. So sad, there are low-lifes in this world that take pleasure in a good persons passing!

[George W. Bush]

I'm looking for something beyond the innuendo that drugs were involved:

I never suggested the croc guy did drugs. Not even close.