I always figured a snake would get him...
http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,20349541-5001021,00.html
Steve Irwin killed by stingray
September 04, 2006 12:00
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CROCODILE Hunter Steve Irwin has died after a string-ray barb caught him in the chest.
The 44-year-old international TV star was swimming off the Low Isles at Port Douglas filming an underwater documentary when the incident happened.
Ambulance officers confirmed they attended a reef fatality this morning at Batt Reef off Port Douglas. It is understood Irwin was killed around midday.
Irwin leaves his wife Terri and young children Bob and and Bindi.
The blonde star of Crocodile Hunter, who made khaki shorts and boots his uniform all year round, was an Australian icon.
But his reptile wrestling antics thrilled overseas audiences even more and he became a fixture on US television in the past decade.
The son of naturalists Bob and Lyn Irwin, Steve learned to live with dangerous reptiles from a young age at the family’s Queensland Reptile and Fauna Park.
He opened his own Australia Zoo in Queensland in 1991, leading him to record the hugely popular Crocodile Hunter the following year.
His catchcry of “Crikey!†brought the unfashionable Aussie phrase back into vogue.
Irwin’s work had a serious side. He was recently made the face of Australia’s quarantine laws and appeared in TV advertisements urging travellers not to endanger Australia’s unique flora and fauna by bringing in foreign specimens.
For all his love of animals, Irwin’s first duty was to his US-born wife, Terri Reines, who appeared by his side from the very first episode of the Crocodile Hunter. In 1998, their daughter Bindi Sue was born and drafted straight into the family business.
A son, Robert Clarence, was born in 2003 and Irwin made world headlines - and suffered a dent on his popularity - when he took the baby boy into a crocodile enclosure, leading critics to accuse him of neglect.
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Thats sad. I figured it would be from a snake bite.
The One and Only Katie wrote:
Thats sad. I figured it would be from a snake bite.
Kao thought so too:
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[23:46] <Kaolian> a stingray got him? I always figured it would be a snake of some sort
Wow, how sad. I hope his family copes well.
At least he was killed doing what he loved to do, and not some silly way, like a Sprite machine falling on him.
RIP Steve.
And watch your ***, Jeff!
At least he was killed doing what he loved to do, and not some silly way, like a Sprite machine falling on him.
RIP Steve.
And watch your ***, Jeff!
publiusvarus wrote:
we all know liberals are well adjusted american citizens who only want what's best for society. While conservatives are evil money grubbing scum who only want to sh*t on the little man and rob the world of its resources.
Well Hell! We can't have Kao and I thinkin alike. I'll change my answer to, " I figured it would he would be crushed by a rhino putang".
That's a bummer. I can't even think of any puns I could make in poor taste right now.
Crikey.
Crikey.
RIP Steve Irwin
I didn't know that sting rays could kill people...
I didn't know that sting rays could kill people...
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I've always read Driftwood as the straight man in varus' double act. It helps if you read all of his posts in the voice of Droopy Dog.
Yup. I tihnk most ray stings occur in the foot or leg, usually by people walking along the shore or shallow water, which can be treated. A shot to the chest would make it deadly.
publiusvarus wrote:
we all know liberals are well adjusted american citizens who only want what's best for society. While conservatives are evil money grubbing scum who only want to sh*t on the little man and rob the world of its resources.
From Wikipedia
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Dasyatids do not attack aggressively, or even actively defend themselves. When threatened their primary reaction is to swim away. However, when they are attacked by predators or stepped on, the barbed stinger in their tail is mechanically whipped up, usually into the offending foot; it is also possible, although less likely, to be stung "accidentally" by brushing against the stinger. Contact with the stinger causes local trauma (from the cut itself), pain and swelling from the venom, and possible infection from parts of the stinger left in the wound, as well as from seawater entering the wound. It is possible for ray stings to be fatal if they sever major arteries, are in the chest or pelvic region, or are improperly treated. Their stingers are normally ineffective against their main predator, sharks.
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Sedao
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So, if I understand the defense mechanism of stingrays correctly now, and I assume I do since I just read a paragraph of infoz from Wikipedia, I am going to draw the conclusion that Steve Irwin was rubbing up against the animal in a way that provoked the attack. Probably with his weiner.
See what happens when Steve doesn't taunt wildlife with the shield that is his baby? People die.
See what happens when Steve doesn't taunt wildlife with the shield that is his baby? People die.
Wow. Crikey. I feel sorry for his wife and his kids. RIP Steve Irwin.
Edit: spelling at night is hard.
Edited, Sep 4th 2006 at 1:30am EDT by Thumbelyna
Edit: spelling at night is hard.
Edited, Sep 4th 2006 at 1:30am EDT by Thumbelyna
When you're underwater, nobody can hear you scream "Danger, danger, danger!"
Jophiel wrote:
I managed to be both retarded and entertaining.
Demea the Irrelevant wrote:
When you're underwater, nobody can hear you scream "Danger, danger, danger!"
Well, you can hear it, but sounds like "Gurrgl, gurrrgl, gurrrgl!"
publiusvarus wrote:
we all know liberals are well adjusted american citizens who only want what's best for society. While conservatives are evil money grubbing scum who only want to sh*t on the little man and rob the world of its resources.
such a shame. he will be missed and i feel sorry for his wife and kid.
That makes me so sad. D:
RIP Steve,
I was wondering how long it would take Natural Selection to catch up with you.
I was wondering how long it would take Natural Selection to catch up with you.
Well Lordy Lordy and Bless us all!
Who'd have thought that a guy who made a career of manhandling deadly creatures would. . .
Mehh. Good riddance to the loud-mouthed Aussie ****.
C'mon. Who can tell me that his braggart nasal whoining didn't make them want to punch him in the face?
See?
Who'd have thought that a guy who made a career of manhandling deadly creatures would. . .
Mehh. Good riddance to the loud-mouthed Aussie ****.
C'mon. Who can tell me that his braggart nasal whoining didn't make them want to punch him in the face?
See?
Steve Irwin's last words wrote:
"Strewth! This little bloiter has stings thut could kill a greaown maan, but if, loik me, you kneow how to hendle the little fellahs, you can get real clos. . . Aaarghhh! Glug Glug Glug"
"I started out with nothin' and I still got most of it left" - Seasick Steve
This is a shame and I'll miss him. I enjoyed watching his TV shows while I was a kid. I also feel really sorry for his wife and kids. I've also seen his live shows at his zoo and they were pretty great. But something bad was bound to happen I guess. He'll be missed.
RIP Steve.
RIP Steve.
R.I.P.
/raises a Guiness
His children are only 8 and not yet 3. I feel terrible for his family.
To echo many, he died doing what he loved to do. I can only hope I go that way.
Not the stingray part, though.
/raises a Guiness
His children are only 8 and not yet 3. I feel terrible for his family.
To echo many, he died doing what he loved to do. I can only hope I go that way.
Not the stingray part, though.
Apathy wins again.
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According to the Washington Post, the ray's barb pierced his heart.
Link
Link
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Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin Killed
The Associated Press
Monday, September 4, 2006; 7:14 AM
CAIRNS, Australia -- Steve Irwin, the hugely popular Australian television personality and conservationist known as the "Crocodile Hunter," was killed Monday by a stingray while filming off the Great Barrier Reef. He was 44.
Irwin was at Batt Reef, off the remote coast of northeastern Queensland state, shooting a segment for a series called "Ocean's Deadliest" when he swam too close to one of the animals, which have a poisonous bard on their tails, his friend and colleague John Stainton said.
The Associated Press
Monday, September 4, 2006; 7:14 AM
CAIRNS, Australia -- Steve Irwin, the hugely popular Australian television personality and conservationist known as the "Crocodile Hunter," was killed Monday by a stingray while filming off the Great Barrier Reef. He was 44.
Irwin was at Batt Reef, off the remote coast of northeastern Queensland state, shooting a segment for a series called "Ocean's Deadliest" when he swam too close to one of the animals, which have a poisonous bard on their tails, his friend and colleague John Stainton said.
I was always surprised he lived as long as he did. And I thought a crocodile would have got him.
R.I.P.
R.I.P.
And I always thought he was playing with zoo animals for his "dangerous" shows.
FUcking idiot
FUcking idiot
He had a good run of luck, doing what he did. It had to catch up to him some time but it's sad to see it's already happened. And I thought he would have been rolled and drowned by a giant croc
Huh.
G'day mate.
G'day mate.
What's bred in the bone will not out of the flesh.
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[...]when he swam too close to one of the animals, which have a poisonous bard on their tails[...]
A shame about him if only for his children who lost their father.
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