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Irwin death footage 'shocking'
Herald Sun ^ | 5 September 2006 | Dave Donaghy

Posted on 09/04/2006 6:50:04 PM PDT by Aussie Dasher

FATALLY injured by a stingray, Steve Irwin pulled its barb out of his chest before losing consciousness, dramatic footage of his last moments reveals.

Friend John Stainton said the footage of the stingray attack which took the life of the Crocodile Hunter on the Great Barrier Reef yesterday was "shocking".

Mr Irwin, 44, died after the stingray barb punctured his chest while snorkelling off Port Douglas, in far north Queensland, yesterday.

A cameraman captured the incident during filming for Irwin's new project with daughter Bindi, eight, that was to debut in the United States next year.

"I did see the footage and it's shocking," Mr Stainton said today in Cairns.

"It's a very hard thing to watch because you're actually witnessing somebody die ... and it's terrible."

Mr Stainton, also a producer and director of Irwin's popular television shows, said the footage showed Mr Irwin pulling the barb out of his chest before losing consciousness.

"It shows that Steve came over the top of the ray and the tail came up, and spiked him here (in the chest), and he pulled it out and the next minute he's gone.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.com.au ...


TOPICS: Australia/New Zealand; Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: australia; deathfootage; steveirwin; stingray
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To: Aussie Dasher

How did he pull it out? It is recurved it would tear a big wound. Maybe he should not have pulled it out.


21 posted on 09/04/2006 7:03:15 PM PDT by Hound of the Baskervilles (A)
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To: mware
I was thinking on that this afernoon.

I felt the same way I did with Steve when I heard of the death of Jimmy Stewart.

Oh my gosh! I had the exact same thoughts today when I was painting. .. Thinking that Jimmy Stewart was the only celebrity that when he died, I cried.

22 posted on 09/04/2006 7:05:14 PM PDT by abner (Know islam, no peace; No islam, know peace.)
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To: Aussie Dasher

I am deeply saddened by this man's death. Unfortunately, Mr. Irwin was what I consider to be a danger junkie. He was very very good at what he did. However, sooner or later, danger wins, and it only has to win once. May he rest in peace.


23 posted on 09/04/2006 7:05:32 PM PDT by SALChamps03
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To: DCBryan1

They are nowhere near as important to Americans as Steve Irwin was to Australia.


24 posted on 09/04/2006 7:05:41 PM PDT by gridlock (The 'Pubbies will pick up at least TWO seats in the Senate and FOUR seats in the House in 2006)
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To: Aussie Dasher
I saw it in the Bangkok Post where he is much loved by school children and adults. The Animal Channel is on the Cable we have in Chiang Mai. If I recall, there are both English and Thai language channels.

It was particularly sad for his daughter who was with him and, of course the rest of his family.

25 posted on 09/04/2006 7:06:35 PM PDT by JimSEA ( "The purpose of diplomacy is to prolong a crisis." Spock)
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To: Hound of the Baskervilles
Pulling it out could have been what killed him.

When there is a penetrating wound, removing it except at a hospital is the worst thing anyone can do.

26 posted on 09/04/2006 7:07:20 PM PDT by COEXERJ145 (Free Republic is Currently Suffering a Pandemic of “Bush Derangement Syndrome.”)
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To: Aussie Dasher
Irwin death footage 'shocking'

I thought it was a ray, not an eel.

FATALLY injured by a stingray, Steve Irwin pulled its barb out of his chest before losing consciousness...

Okay, just a thought...maybe he should have left it in?

27 posted on 09/04/2006 7:07:22 PM PDT by RichInOC (...I'm sorry. I'm so sorry. I just couldn't resist.)
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To: gridlock

I don't we quite realized how important he was to us until yesterday. Isn't it always the way?


28 posted on 09/04/2006 7:07:44 PM PDT by Aussie Dasher (The Great Ronald Reagan & John Paul II - Heaven's Dream Team!)
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To: Aussie Dasher

Yes, it is.


29 posted on 09/04/2006 7:08:23 PM PDT by gridlock (The 'Pubbies will pick up at least TWO seats in the Senate and FOUR seats in the House in 2006)
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To: abner
Actually I felt that way about Bing Crosby too. Christmas was a little more melancholy on years of the death of Fr. O'Malley and George Baily.
30 posted on 09/04/2006 7:08:31 PM PDT by mware (Americans in armchairs doing the job of the media.)
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To: Aussie Dasher

"Sorry but this is BIG Down here..."

I'm sure it's REALLY BIG down there, no need to apologize because he touched so many lives around the world it's big news everywhere.

I dare say that outside of the last popes passing, Steve's death has shocked as many as did Princess Diana's untimely death.


31 posted on 09/04/2006 7:09:15 PM PDT by diverteach
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To: RichInOC
Okay, just a thought...maybe he should have left it in?

I dont know how many people think that when its happening to them at that very second. Its always easy to look at it when you arent the one with the barb in your chest

32 posted on 09/04/2006 7:09:49 PM PDT by stuck_in_new_orleans
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To: RichInOC
Okay, just a thought...maybe he should have left it in?

What do you think you would do with a 10 inch barb in your chest? A barb laced with excruciatingly painful neurotoxin?

33 posted on 09/04/2006 7:10:01 PM PDT by gridlock (The 'Pubbies will pick up at least TWO seats in the Senate and FOUR seats in the House in 2006)
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To: COEXERJ145

Tough call - these barbs are loaded with toxins - so do you pull it out and risk bleeding to death, or leave it in and let it pump deadly toxin into your heart? Either way, your natural instinct is going to rip it out, probably as good a strategy as any in this horrible dilemma. Probably fatal either way.


34 posted on 09/04/2006 7:10:51 PM PDT by LikeLight (The photo looks like it has been REUTERED)
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To: Aussie Dasher
I bet the word 'surprising' is more accurate description of what happened here than the word "Shocking."
35 posted on 09/04/2006 7:10:58 PM PDT by demlosers
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To: Aussie Dasher

I just heard on Fox that his family has been offered a state funeral. That means he is really is big there. So very sad, and obviously a freak attack. RIP Steve. You will be missed.


36 posted on 09/04/2006 7:11:03 PM PDT by ladyinred (Leftists, the enemy within.)
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To: Aussie Dasher

No apologies necessary - the term "icon" gets overused but it fits here. I live in a little town in rural Idaho and I don't know anyone here who doesn't know who Irwin was. I don't think I really want to see him dying and I'm not sure why anyone would.


37 posted on 09/04/2006 7:11:07 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Aussie Dasher
I think this is big all over.
38 posted on 09/04/2006 7:11:22 PM PDT by Vision (God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, love and self-discipline 2Timothy1)
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To: DCBryan1

Marlin Perkins would be loading the camera while the other guy got it.


39 posted on 09/04/2006 7:11:24 PM PDT by Slump Tester ( What if I'm pregnant Teddy? Errr-ahh Calm down Mary Jo, we'll cross that bridge when we come to it)
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To: abner

Jimmy Stewart and John Wayne.

Only ones I ever cried for.


40 posted on 09/04/2006 7:11:35 PM PDT by wayoverthehill
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