RIP Steve Irwin

[NOS2006]

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,20349888-2,00.html

That dude was awesome.

[mustang84]

At least he died doing what he loved.

RIP.

[Northstar]

Wow, that's very unfortunate. I'm guessing this must have been a pretty big stingray.

RIP

[capriceman]

thats horrible. RIP

[Chris_Doane]

Would it be horribly innapropriate to reply:

Crikey..

Edited September 4, 2006 by CD/BP

[Cremazie]

I guess that is just life...

[Turbojett]

You knew it was sort of inevitable, of all the wierd ferocious ad even venemous animals he's handled, he's finally done in by a Stingray...very sad. poor guy.

[razoredge]

It wouldnt load...................you gotta be kiddin me right ??????????/ I loved that guy, he was the real $h!, I always worried about this, say it aint so ?

[Croc]

Wow I'm in shock...

[ocnblu]

From what I understand, stingrays can get pretty big, but I don't remember how they attack people. I read that he was stabbed by its spine. Do they come forward and bend the spine toward the intended victim, do they back themselves into the victim... I'm trying to visualize this.

Yes, it's a shocking end for an entertaining guy, leaving behind a wife and two young kids.

[american_revolution_2005]

RIP Steve Irwin... Its kind of weird how he never died from all those snakes and crocodiles but he is killed by a Stingray. I hadn't heard anything about him for a couple of years but that was because people lost interest once he brought his baby with him. He held the baby over the crocodile pit. After that his shows were cancelled, etc.

[Guest YellowJacket894]

Wow. This is just...ironic.

[Cory Wolfe]

Damn...

[Flybrian]

A stingray. Wow.

[FAPTurbo]

I feel bad for his kids and wife. I'm sure he knew that he was staring death in the face every time he tangled with all those deadly animals, but it's still one of those things you don't expect to hear.

Sad how a guy who educated people on endangered species and the environment and has a family ends up dying at the age of 44, and yet a guy like old fleabitten Osama is sitting in a dusty cave after murdering plenty of people and not one boulder strikes his head.

[capriceman]

damn Corvettes.

[razoredge]

We watched his show continously when our daughter was younger. This guy was a kick ! Ill never forget the first time I saw him, it was like his first special with snakes, he still had the long hair and was quite young. I thought "this guy is a nut......I like him !" What a character, look at all his unforgettable sayings

get down on it

little bloke wants ta have a go at me

danger, danger !

He is single handedly responsible for my stopping to cut snakes heads off with a shovel. My daughter and I relocated a breeding pair of Northern Water Snakes that made their home in our rock wall. How did we know they were a pair ? We actually have video footage of snake pornography. We were filming the HUGE female to take to someone to find out what it was. Then she moved and I saw something drag along with her. It was a little guy. The males are less than half the size. Then we found out what it was on the web, Northern Water Snake "that give birth to over a hundred live young" that was it, your outta here ! We "tailed" them both, bagged them and took them up to a pond on State Land. She actually got aggressive after they bred too.

He had a huge impact on how people felt about reptiles, lots of education there. What I liked was how he handled them, those other guys pin them down by the neck and you can see they are scared and rough. He just played with them.

Anyone remember the episode with the dirt bike, he was chasing some ferel animals around that werent supposed to be wild in Austrailia, goats maybe. The guy could actually ride...............what a friggin nut.........felt like he could be a brother.

Im not OK with this, Im really not

[MGZ06]

R.I.P Steve,

I will never forget the first time I watch him. . . I thought the guy was complete crazy. It was fate for him to die in such a way.

[ocnblu]

Supposedly, the whole thing was videotaped. He was above the ray, apparently it became alarmed over something (proximity of Steve and cameraman?), and released the barb from its tail. Stingrays, while fantastic and a bit menacing in appearance, are docile creatures, and only release the barb in defense.

[NOS2006]

Yep, oblu. My mom was watching the news last night and they interviewed Steve's best friend who was with him on the trip. They were on some type of raft just studying the creatures and gazing at them to make a video documentary for Discovery Channel. Well, for some reason the stingray felt threatened and shot its barb out straight through the man's heart, releasing a poison and making Irwin take his last breath within the next fifteen minutes, if even that. It was a freak accident though, seeing that the only other documented killing of a person by a stingray (maybe just in that area?) was about 18 years ago... I guess it was just his time, and at least he was doing what he loved to do.

[capriceman]

the sting rays where alarmed by some sharks that were swimming by causeing the stingers to be out. as steve was swimming up so did a stingray and the stinger from the tail i think went under his rib cage into his heart. Steve actually pulled the stinger out by him self and then basicly bleed to death instantly. freak accident and bad timing caused his death.

[trinacriabob]

Bizarre. I was driving back down from Vancouver yesterday listening to the radio and at first, I thought I had wax in my ears.

I thought the barbs were small. Some can get big. Evidently, this creature swung its tail and this lodged a barb into his heart. If it had been elsewhere, he would have been alive to tell about it.

Still, he has been playing with fire for many years. Not to sound too philosophical, we've all heard "He who lives by the sword dies by the sword." This guy had an extremely hazardous line of work and I always wondered when I would read of something along these lines. Well, it happened. It's just that I expected it to be on land and with something carnivorous in nature.

[Sixty8panther]

Yeah... I was shocked to hear that, it's esp. sad since he's a family

man so he'll be missed most of all by his kids. I have to admit that

in the past I have said things along the lines of "one of these days"

seems like this was just a freak accident though. So very tragic.

[ohsnap]

It's definitely sad to see what happened to him

I used to watch the Crocodile Hunter and he and his family were too cute, it's a shame he was lost but he'll always have made a contribution in having raised awareness and compassion towards animals

[NOS2006]

Yeah, over the last day I've been watching Discovery Channel off and on (pretty much just been sketching and watching tv bc of my wisdom teeth) and they have a nice tribute they play of him off and on about "how he'd like to be remembered when he's gone."

[trinacriabob]

but he'll always have made a contribution in having raised awareness and compassion towards animals

190009[/snapback]

I have very little compassion toward animals that can bite me or have me for lunch.

In fact, living out West, one has to be careful not to run into rattlesnakes as you walk over boulders or around wood piles....and these critters are reputedly nonconfrontational.

So, my tactic is to stay the f*** away from any dangerous creature. Period.

[ocnblu]

city boy. :AH-HA_wink:

[capriceman]

I have very little compassion toward animals that can bite me or have me for lunch.   

In fact, living out West, one has to be careful not to run into rattlesnakes as you walk over boulders or around wood piles....and these critters are reputedly nonconfrontational.

So, my tactic is to stay the f*** away from any dangerous creature.  Period.

190207[/snapback]

well being one with nature those deadly "rattles" can be a real life SAVER.