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Irwin death tape 'should be destroyed'
news.com.au ^ | 6 September 2006 | Peter Mitchell

Posted on 09/05/2006 7:36:47 PM PDT by Aussie Dasher

THE footage of Steve Irwin's death should be destroyed, his manager and friend John Stainton said today.

"I would never want that tape shown," Stainton told CNN talk show host Larry King.

"It should be destroyed.

"At the moment it is in police custody for evidence. There's a coroner's inquest taking place at the moment.

"When that is finally released it will never see the light of day.

"Never. Ever.

"I actually saw it and I don't want to see it again."

Irwin, 44, died on Monday when stabbed in the chest by a stingray barb while snorkelling on the Great Barrier Reef and Stainton has said footage of the incident is "terrible".

The footage shows Irwin pulling the barb out of his chest before dying.

While Stainton wants the footage kept under wraps, media experts say it may soon be circulating on the internet.

"The key point is once there's something on film, it's impossible to keep it contained," Paul Levinson, chairman of Fordham University's Department of Communication and Media Studies, said.

Mr Stainton, who broke down several times during the CNN interview, said Irwin's wife, Terri, was struggling with her husband's death.

When King asked a teary Stainton how Terri was doing, Mr Stainton replied: "A lot worse than me".

Mr Stainton told how he travelled with Irwin's body in a caske

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TOPICS: Australia/New Zealand; Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: australia; death; johnstainton; oninternetin2weeks; steveirwin; stingray; terriirwin; videotape
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To: Chad_the_Impaler

I don't think it would come from Steve's staff. They were a tight knit group and would let Terri make the decision.

Hopefully the tape is safe with the police authorities


101 posted on 09/05/2006 9:41:49 PM PDT by mom4kittys (If velvet could sing, it would sound like Josh Groban)
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To: Aussie Dasher
"The key point is once there's something on film, it's impossible to keep it contained,"

Only if people lack all common sense and decency

102 posted on 09/05/2006 9:42:53 PM PDT by LukeL
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To: samadams2000
Destroy it and hang the first person that airs it in the "public interest".

If it's destroyed, how can it be shown?

I gotta work on that logic.

103 posted on 09/05/2006 9:43:17 PM PDT by Cobra64 (All we get are lame ideas from Republicans and lame criticism from dems about those lame ideas.)
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To: My2Cents

What about use of the footage, at least of the initial "attack" for safety training?


104 posted on 09/05/2006 9:43:18 PM PDT by TheBattman (I've got TWO QUESTIONS for you....)
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To: Aussie Dasher

Why should we only see the episodes when he tempted fate and came off scot free? If he wants to teach us about nature, I'd think he'd want us to be warned to be wiser than he was.


105 posted on 09/05/2006 9:43:48 PM PDT by unspun (What do you think? Please think, before you answer.)
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To: Cobra64
> I gotta work on that logic.

Good luck!

106 posted on 09/05/2006 9:44:28 PM PDT by dayglored (Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!)
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To: Chad_the_Impaler
Prediction: All the speculation as to whether the video will be shown guarantees it will see the light of day. Some staffer who has read all the controversy over whether to show the video, has (as we speak) gotten into his car in his pajamas to go to the studio to make a secret copy of the video on his office PC.

Fine. If that prediction comes to pass, someone should find out who the sick twisted person is, and fire his/her ass.

107 posted on 09/05/2006 9:44:57 PM PDT by BigSkyFreeper (There is no alternative to the GOP except varying degrees of insanity.)
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To: Cobra64
> I'd pay to see this:

Shouldn't the knot be on the side of the neck for a faster kill? Of course, there are those who would want to see it slow in Saddam's case... ;-)


108 posted on 09/05/2006 9:46:34 PM PDT by dayglored (Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!)
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To: BigSkyFreeper

If someone does this without Terri's blessing, they should have a lot more coming to them than getting fired!


109 posted on 09/05/2006 9:47:31 PM PDT by mom4kittys (If velvet could sing, it would sound like Josh Groban)
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To: Howlin; Aussie Dasher
For the life of me, I just can't get this off my mind.

Same here... such a tragedy. Prayers for Steve Irwin's family and friends...

110 posted on 09/05/2006 9:47:39 PM PDT by nutmeg (National security trumps everything else.)
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To: unspun
Why should we only see the episodes when he tempted fate and came off scot free? If he wants to teach us about nature, I'd think he'd want us to be warned to be wiser than he was.

We don't know what he would have wanted. We do know however that the ghouls in the media just can't wait to sink it's teeth into it, blow it all out of proportion, and taint the legacy of Steve Irwin. You know as well as I do, that is exactly what the media will do. Heck, they've been panting and salivating over this video ever since he was killed.

111 posted on 09/05/2006 9:49:22 PM PDT by BigSkyFreeper (There is no alternative to the GOP except varying degrees of insanity.)
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To: nutmeg
> ...such a tragedy. Prayers for Steve Irwin's family and friends...

That's a lot of prayers. His extended "friends" number in the tens of millions at least.

112 posted on 09/05/2006 9:49:26 PM PDT by dayglored (Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!)
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To: mom4kittys
If someone does this without Terri's blessing, they should have a lot more coming to them than getting fired!

Exactly. Everyone should respect the families wishes. Irwin's fast mate John Stainton couldn't bear watching it once. The media would just show it over and over in a continuous loop on a split screen while they remember the legacy of Steve Irwin.

113 posted on 09/05/2006 9:52:43 PM PDT by BigSkyFreeper (There is no alternative to the GOP except varying degrees of insanity.)
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To: Mad Dawgg

Back in '01, my wife and I took a Western Carribian cruise. One stop was on Grand Cayman where we went on a snorkle trip to swim with stingrays. We saw a whole bunch of them, from no more than a foot across to a few that were as big as the one that got Steve. Heck, one of the guides even picked a few up partially out of the water, and would help you hold one just in the water for photos.

No accidents or stings. Then again, many of these stingrays were somewhat accustomed to being touched and handled.

I can understand the draw of swimming with stingrays. Very neat experience. We were thoroughly warned about the sting, and what to do to avoid it in the first place.


114 posted on 09/05/2006 9:54:05 PM PDT by TheBattman (I've got TWO QUESTIONS for you....)
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To: BigSkyFreeper

Does anyone know if he is to be buried on the zoo grounds? I think that would be perfect---in his khaki's.


115 posted on 09/05/2006 9:56:34 PM PDT by mom4kittys (If velvet could sing, it would sound like Josh Groban)
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To: BigSkyFreeper
You know as well as I do, that is exactly what the media will do. Heck, they've been panting and salivating over this video ever since he was killed.

Reminds me of the media fighting to get the autopsy pictures of Dale Earnhardt

116 posted on 09/05/2006 9:56:58 PM PDT by Mo1 (Think about it .. A Speaker Nancy Pelosi could be 2 seats away from being President)
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To: BigSkyFreeper

I appreciate what you are saying about media schadenfreude (sp?). Actually, I think it's good for people to see the reality of suffering and death -- in an appropriate way, of course.

When I was a boy, I did see the suffering marines and soldiers in Viet Nam, but I also saw the pictures of the dead and still alive but starving Jews (and possibly the Poles and Christians) in Nazi camps. The latter helped to put the former into perspective, since it is a lasting image of the suffering caused by all evil autocrats.

The impact was worthwhile.

As a pre-teen, I also recall seeing a dog run over by a car. It was a painful thing to witness. Near that time, I also saw shoes in the road, of a young person who had been hit by a car.

Witnessing suffering instructs one not to ignore the behavior that leads to it.


117 posted on 09/05/2006 9:57:42 PM PDT by unspun (What do you think? Please think, before you answer.)
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To: mom4kittys

I was thinking the same thing!


118 posted on 09/05/2006 9:58:19 PM PDT by Aussie Dasher (The Great Ronald Reagan & John Paul II - Heaven's Dream Team!)
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To: TheBattman

I petted a whole bunch of them at the stingray petting zoo at the Mall of America. It didn't take much to attract them. You could just put the tips of your fingers into the water, and they would swim gracefully by, rubbing against your fingertips. Fascinating creatures. The most surprising thing for me was their skin is very soft, and reminded me of silk.


119 posted on 09/05/2006 9:59:45 PM PDT by BigSkyFreeper (There is no alternative to the GOP except varying degrees of insanity.)
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To: Mo1; BigSkyFreeper
They finally got this photo published.

I hope and pray Discovery Channel will exercise good sense and never air the film.

120 posted on 09/05/2006 10:00:43 PM PDT by onyx (1 Billion Muslims -- "if" 10% are fundamentalists, that's still 100 Million who want to kill us.)
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