Steve "Crocodile man" Irwin dead!!

[muchspl3]

Steve Irwin killed in stingray attack near Cairns (http://au.news.yahoo.com/060904/23/10ebv.html)
7News - Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin has reportedly been killed in a stingray attack near Cairns on Australia's far north coast.
Read more... (http://au.news.yahoo.com/060904/23/10ebv.html)

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LEGEND dead ... Crcocodile hunter Steve Irwin is dead after he was fatally barbed by a stingray off north Queensland.

Crikey!

[muchspl3]

damn www.cnn.com (http://www.cnn.com)


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Steve Irwin, Australian TV presenter known as "The Crocodile Hunter," killed in marine accident, news wires report. Details soon.

[muchspl3]

I was hoping it wasn't real :(

rip

[muchspl3]

Mr Irwin's American-born wife Terri is trekking on Cradle Mountain in Tasmania and has yet to be informed of her husband's sudden death.

his wife doesn't even know :(

[Smith]

I remember watching that show and hoping once..just once he would get his arm ripped off by a croc.

Shame really..but swimming with stingrays isnt exactly the safest..nor smartest thing in the world to do.

[muchspl3]

him > you

he lived life to the fullest, and enjoyed every bit of it

[RPerry]

Having grown up on the gulf coast of Florida, I had never heard of a fatal stingray attack. are the stingrays in Australia more venomous ?

[cpt_azad]

Confirmed it man, its true.

R.I.P. Steve, that guy was amazing, watched his show as a kid all the time.

Man, when I die I want to die doing what I love, even though it's sad news, at least Steve died doing what he does best.

[muchspl3]

Having grown up on the gulf coast of Florida, I had never heard of a fatal stingray attack. are the stingrays in Australia more venomous ?

navarre/pensacola represent


http://www.mote.org/clientuploads/sharks/Pictures/stingray_barb_web.jpg

stingray barb

http://www.martysnyderman.com/imagefolio/gallery/Rays/Stingrays/RAYSTG-115.jpg

A stingray barb.

http://www.seaturtlehospital.org/raybarb1.jpg

[muchspl3]

apparently he died from a sting to the heart...

[MagicNakor]

Most things Down Under are much more venomous than their counterparts in other countries.

I didn't watch his show very often, but his enthusiasm was wonderful to see. No doubt that he'll be missed.

:shuriken:

[Guyver]

hahahah

[muchspl3]

fuck off

[Adster]

the aussie sterotype dead

[JordoR]

Good riddance... LOL I'm quite surprised he's actually lasted this long. He put his life on the line every single episode which means hes got a lot of testicular fortitude. However, this is one person who wont miss the croc hunter.

[Nightwolf]

Man, I come back to this forum to be cheered up and this is the news I get. How sad. Now I'm really bummed out.

[Mr. Mulder]

He did a huge amount of charity work, mainly for animals I think

[GepperRankins]

:emo:

[manker]

The Michael Jackson of the naturalist world.

His programmes will be sadly missed by people who like to see animals being harrassed, rather than observed from afar.

Shame for his wife and kiddies, but.

[{I}{K}{E}]

:(

[Barbarossa]

http://www.mote.org/clientuploads/sharks/Pictures/stingray_barb_web.jpg

stingray barb

http://www.martysnyderman.com/imagefolio/gallery/Rays/Stingrays/RAYSTG-115.jpg

A stingray barb.

:blink: fuck off, I know what a stingray is :blink:

[Barbarossa]

I can't help thinking it serves him right, but it's a shame for his family, yes indeedy.

[GepperRankins]

ungrateful pricks. steve irwin died for your freedom and you the nerve to badmouth him :dry:

[Skiz]

He was funny as hell to listen to, but I gotta say, you play with fire.........

[CrabGirl]

Commiserations to his family and friends, but Steve Irwin more than knew the risks of animal interactions such as those he sought. He gambled and put his life at risk each and every time he got into a pen with crocs, swam with sharks or rays, or picked up poison snakes by the tail. This time he lost. Yes, he lived life to the full but the lives of his wife and kids will be all the emptier due to those risks he took.

[limesqueezer]

I remember when i invented a rumor that Steve Irwin died, that was months ago, but i don't think i was the first. Or is he now dead for real ?

[Barbarossa]

No, it's an incredibly well-executed fabrication.

Hell, every news agency on the interweb is in on it, and :earl: too. :no:

Those bastards. Just think of the poor crocs.

[Mr. Mulder]

http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/6100/croccrywr8.gif

[Cheese]

Such a shame, I liked the guy. Animals deserve everything they get, when was the last time an animal wrote an epic poem or cured a disease? Never, lazy bastids.

I, for one, am going to chase Crabgirl's cat around the flat tonight like a madman in honour of our fallen animal-bothering Aussie.

[CrabGirl]

Such a shame, I liked the guy. Animals deserve everything they get, when was the last time an animal wrote an epic poem or cured a disease? Never, lazy bastids.

I, for one, am going to chase Crabgirl's cat around the flat tonight like a madman in honour of our fallen animal-bothering Aussie.

Fine by me. Like Steve Irwin you do so at your own risk, and when she turns around and bites you, I'm gonna do nought but laugh.

[The_Hunter]

the barb pierced his heart

[Barbarossa]

<------------- Me. The Steve Irwin Hunter :01:

[DanB]

http://img331.imageshack.us/img331/9606/stingrayxr71fu3.jpg

[Seedler]

Pwnt.

[Barbarossa]

http://img331.imageshack.us/img331/9606/stingrayxr71fu3.jpg

I wonder how many times I'll get emailed that over the next few days :shifty:

[DanB]

http://img331.imageshack.us/img331/9606/stingrayxr71fu3.jpg

I wonder how many times I'll get emailed that over the next few days :shifty:

So true, I've been emailed it 4 times already :lol:

[Gripper]

Damn shame

[Proper Bo]

"look at that tail, what a be-yoooty, look how it's gone straight into my heart, awesome creatures"

[gustafo]

:cry: very nice guy, that really lived for the nature itself :cry:

[j0hn]

http://img331.imageshack.us/img331/9606/stingrayxr71fu3.jpg
lol! laughed so hard at that.

on a serious note, im gutted hes dead.
those who say he pestered animals, do u know anything about the guy?
his parents founded australia zoo. they left it to him.
he'd catch all the crocs to take away from populated areas so they didnt get shot. sometimes he got a bit close, true, but imo a good man.

must saw it was gonna happen 1 day though. although i figured he'd just lose an arm or something. feel sorry for the wife and kids.

[Snee]

He rawked.

Australia is screwed now :(

Nothing worthwhile left, there.

[Skiz]

I've been reading a bit about stinrays, barbs, and Irwin's encounter:

I wasn't aware until now that he was actually hit directly in the heart. :O

Deaths are extremely rare from stings it seams, but I guess when a barb with venom puts a hole in your heart, your odds of survival drop to nothing. :ermm:

[Lilmiss]

http://img347.imageshack.us/img347/5531/irwin2ac0.gif (http://imageshack.us)


goanna (http://www.joecartoon.com/pages/goanna_anim) :wub:

[Agrajag]

I remember watching that show and hoping once..just once he would get his arm ripped off by a croc.



:lol:

Well, twice would be the max. However one supposes he would have given up the game had he been dis-armed by an alligator.

[Busyman™]

Steve Irwin killed in stingray attack near Cairns (http://au.news.yahoo.com/060904/23/10ebv.html)
7News - Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin has reportedly been killed in a stingray attack near Cairns on Australia's far north coast.
Read more... (http://au.news.yahoo.com/060904/23/10ebv.html)

http://www.news.com.au/common/imagedata/0,,5234714,00.jpg

LEGEND dead ... Crcocodile hunter Steve Irwin is dead after he was fatally barbed by a stingray off north Queensland.

Crikey!

I can't believe he was killed by a stingray. Of the things this guy has fucked with....a stingray.

I was just petting stingrays (at a stingray farm) when I went on a cruise back in May. I was told that as long as you don't step on one that you were cool.:O

When I went snorkeling, I saw a couple at the bottom of the ocean. I know that sometimes they are under the dirt on the ocean floor and to keep you feet off it.

[Proper Bo]

I was just petting stingrays (at a stingray farm) when I went on a cruise back in May. I was told that as long as you don't step on one that you were cool.:O

They had a stingray farm on the cruiseship?:O

[100%]

tv kills

[Busyman™]

I was just petting stingrays (at a stingray farm) when I went on a cruise back in May. I was told that as long as you don't step on one that you were cool.:O

They had a stingray farm on the cruiseship?:O

Yeah my cruise ship was the shizzle. :snooty:

Actually it was on a bike riding excursion on Carnival's island, Half-Moon Cay. (only cost $20)

That reminds me, I need to get those pictures off my memory card.:(

[Snee]

I was just petting stingrays (at a stingray farm) when I went on a cruise back in May. I was told that as long as you don't step on one that you were cool.:O

They had a stingray farm on the cruiseship?:O

The cheap bastards couldn't afford proper sharks :dry:

[Tempestv]

It's ironic really- he messes around with some of the deadlest animals on the planet- venomious snakes, sharks, crocodiles, ect, and what kills him is a stingray, which apparently are almost harmless to humans.

[CrabGirl]

Steve Irwin killed in stingray attack near Cairns (http://au.news.yahoo.com/060904/23/10ebv.html)
7News - Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin has reportedly been killed in a stingray attack near Cairns on Australia's far north coast.
Read more... (http://au.news.yahoo.com/060904/23/10ebv.html)

http://www.news.com.au/common/imagedata/0,,5234714,00.jpg

LEGEND dead ... Crcocodile hunter Steve Irwin is dead after he was fatally barbed by a stingray off north Queensland.

Crikey!

I can't believe he was killed by a stingray. Of the things this guy has fucked with....a stingray.

I was just petting stingrays (at a stingray farm) when I went on a cruise back in May. I was told that as long as you don't step on one that you were cool.:O

When I went snorkeling, I saw a couple at the bottom of the ocean. I know that sometimes they are under the dirt on the ocean floor and to keep you feet off it.

Stingray is the common name for any ray which has a poison or barbs on its tail. There are hundreds of species like this. We even have some 40 different species around our own coasts here in Britain. The ones you petted were probably smaller species considering they were in captivity.

The one that killed Steve Irwin was, according to some reports, a bull or short tailed sting ray, which is one of the larger species (not as large as a manta though), growing upto 13 or 14 feet. The poison alone from it's sting wouldn't have been fatal though. It was the location in which he was stung. He was swimming above it and it lashed it's tail upwards. There would have been a lot of force behind it's strike hence piercing his heart. He must have been either very very close to it, or handling it for it to get his heart.

These are huge animals but it would have struck out of protection not aggression. Unfortunatly animals can't distinguish between human curiosity and a threat. Stingrays are going to get an undeserved bad press in the near future.

Although I really can't agree with some of his methods there is no doubt that his passion and enthusiasm for the natural world did a lot of good in raising awareness of environmental pressures and wildlife in general. I can't help adding that I don't think this was a man who would have wanted to die in his sleep.

[Agrajag]

Yeah right, stabbing a man in the heart doesn't deserve a "bad press".

[Proper Bo]

I want to buy it a drink on behalf of all the crocodiles and snakes he molested

[GepperRankins]

i'm lolling like crazy. thanks JP you tit

[tesco]

I saw it on tv so it must be true :cry:!

I never really watched his show but just the fact that he lasted so long doing what he was doing is pretty crazy and makes this day very sad.

[CrabGirl]

If an evil maverick rogue Stingray maliciously cornered him and stabbed him then yes. A Stingray doing what Stingrays do, and with him in full awareness of the risk, then no. It would have been one slash of the tail, and not normally fatal. This was an unlucky shot and a tragedy for his him and his family. But he was aware of the risks.

More people are killed by vending machines in a year than are by sharks, or in this case, their cousins.

[BILLY-THE-FISH]

I read that only ever been 3 deaths like it in Aussie history,
unlucky i say... :-(

[Agrajag]

More people are killed by vending machines in a year than are by sharks, or in this case, their cousins.

One would venture that the vending machines had no actual part to play in the decision making process. However I am far from being an expert on the subject.

[CrabGirl]

I didn't say murdered, or intentionally killed. A person can be killed by a dead duck falling from the sky or by lightning. The duck or weather event didn't intentionally mean to kill the person but it still occured. People shake vending machines when they don't release the confectionary of choice, the vending machine then falls on the shaker and kills them. No decision-making needed. The person still died. Cause of death, vending machine.

[Skiz]

They had a stingray farm on the cruiseship?:O

The cheap bastards couldn't afford proper sharks :dry:

Proper sharks with freakin' laserbeams attached to their freakin' heads.

On topic - I did read somewhere earlier today that stingrays flicking their tail up and stinging someone is an involuntary reflex.

[brenda]

:cry: I felt a pang of sadness when I heard but i also kept laughing everytime I heard the story on the news:unsure: he had an unparallelled zest for life and its a shame that its reached its inevitable end.

When my friends bring their kids round and they bug the hell out of my cat by pulling her ears and tail I tell them that if they annoy her she will hurt them. Apprently no-one ever imparted that invaluble advise to Stevie

RIP

[Agrajag]

I didn't say murdered, or intentionally killed. A person can be killed by a dead duck falling from the sky or by lightning. The duck or weather event didn't intentionally mean to kill the person but it still occured. People shake vending machines when they don't release the confectionary of choice, the vending machine then falls on the shaker and kills them. No decision-making needed. The person still died. Cause of death, vending machine.

Indeed and the ray stabbed him in the heart. It wasn't an inanimate object, like a vending machine.

Your analogy is flawed. A ray is not the same as a vending machine. A ray is a living creature, a vending machine is a vegetable.

[CrabGirl]

The point was that the ray struck him out of defence, because it felt threatened. He may have been doing nothing wrong, just been in a position which caused the ray distress. He was killed by a ray, but the killing wasn't the rays fault. Steve obviously thought the risks were worth taking, and in this case he was wrong. He was actually out there filming a program on Tiger Sharks, which come second to the Great White in fatal human interactions. Ironic really.

[Busyman™]

The cheap bastards couldn't afford proper sharks :dry:

Proper sharks with freakin' laserbeams attached to their freakin' heads.

On topic - I did read somewhere earlier today that stingrays flicking their tail up and stinging someone is an involuntary reflex.

Thus the "don't step on one" rule applies. At the stingray farm, as soon you step foot in the shallow water, they start a comin' like cats wanting to be petted.

It was quite nice for a bike excursion along an island beach for a mere 20 bones.:dabs:

[j2k4]

...a vending machine is a vegetable.

Utter rubbish.

[Proper Bo]

:pinch:

[suprafreak6]

He did a huge amount of charity work, mainly for animals I think

thats what makes him a good guy

[muchspl3]

http://sivss.ytmnd.com/

[muchspl3]

THERE IS FILM OF IT...

taken from SMH.com.au

http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/...222098946.html

Irwin death footage 'terrible'

The underwater video footage of Steve Irwin's death after he was speared in the chest by a stingray was "shocking" his manager reportedly said today.

John Stainton told reporters the footage, which he had handed to police, was the worst thing he had ever seen, Sydney's 2GB radio reported this morning.

"I have seen the footage and it's shocking," Mr Stainton said.

"It's a very hard thing to watch because you're watching 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.

'The tail came up'

"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.

"That was it. The cameraman had to shut down."

Mr Stainton, who was aboard Mr Irwin's vessel Croc One when the tragedy occurred, said it was likely the television star and naturalist died almost immediately as a result of the stingray's blow.

"(He was) probably a metre coming over the top of it," he said.

"He was underwater. I think, and the coroner's report will say what happened, but I think he died fairly instantly."

Mr Stainton said he was still in disbelief that a stingray could claim his close friend's life.

"He was always on the precipice," he said.

"He always pushed himself to the very limits but I thought he was invulnerable and I think he did too.



..as for if there are any arsehole aussies who are gonna release it, who knows

[Tempestv]

apparently it's up to his wife if the show that he was filming airs or not, same for the footage of him getting stabbed

[limesqueezer]

Steve Irwin was/is a good, really funny, croc-savvy guy. It is damn crikey, all this story about him. When i watched him, it was like watching a crocodile puppet show with funny accent. He was always telling the dangerous animals to come down and to relax while he can play with em. He done many things, not just as crocodile hunter. They filmed him on every move, everywhere he went, he explored those chock-a-blocked holes with grumpy snakes and other extremly deadly reptiles that just waited for their piece of meat. He survived many deadly rip snorters, but i though that his little bottler would be on the menue before him.

[Skiz]

THERE IS FILM OF IT...

taken from SMH.com.au

http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/...222098946.html

Irwin death footage 'terrible'

The underwater video footage of Steve Irwin's death after he was speared in the chest by a stingray was "shocking" his manager reportedly said today.

John Stainton told reporters the footage, which he had handed to police, was the worst thing he had ever seen, Sydney's 2GB radio reported this morning.

"I have seen the footage and it's shocking," Mr Stainton said.

"It's a very hard thing to watch because you're watching 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.

'The tail came up'

"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.

"That was it. The cameraman had to shut down."

Mr Stainton, who was aboard Mr Irwin's vessel Croc One when the tragedy occurred, said it was likely the television star and naturalist died almost immediately as a result of the stingray's blow.

"(He was) probably a metre coming over the top of it," he said.

"He was underwater. I think, and the coroner's report will say what happened, but I think he died fairly instantly."

Mr Stainton said he was still in disbelief that a stingray could claim his close friend's life.

"He was always on the precipice," he said.

"He always pushed himself to the very limits but I thought he was invulnerable and I think he did too.



..as for if there are any arsehole aussies who are gonna release it, who knows


Well, he died doing what he loved and death was almost instantaneous. We should all be so lucky. :(

[limesqueezer]

He is now dead for real it seems, sting ray aimed at his heart they say :O . Didn't know those things were soo deadly, its really sad. The video disapeared somehow, anybody knows where i can find it ?

[DanB]

He is now dead for real it seems, sting ray aimed at his heart they say :O . Didn't know those things were soo deadly, its really sad. The video disapeared somehow, anybody knows where i can find it ?

The video has been swagged by the police for the inquest

[sniper06]

R I P steve you will be missed

[Skiz]

http://www.spikedhumor.com/articles/52130/Steve_Irwin_Weeps_When_A_Crocodile_Dies.html :cry:

[Monkeee]

Damn heared about this, RIP Steve Irwin

[Busyman]

What a bitch. :dry:


SYDNEY, Australia (CNN) -- Comments by academic Germaine Greer on the death of wildlife TV star Steve Irwin have triggered a storm of anger with the Australian author criticized for being "insensitive" and "elitist."

Greer, best known for her feminist book "The Female Eunuch", said Wednesday Irwin was an "embarrassment" and a "self-deluded animal torturer."

Irwin, who gained international fame for his "Crocodile Hunter" TV series, was killed Monday by a stingray barb while filming a wildlife documentary.

Speaking on Australian TV Channel Nine's "A Current Affair" news program Wednesday, Greer described those who mourned Irwin's passing as "idiots" and said possibly millions of Australians were embarrassed by him.

Greer said Irwin had not treated animals with the respect they deserved.

"He would tell you how dangerous they were and he would proceed to intrude on their space and humiliate (them) really -- treat them with massive insensitivity," she said. "It's no surprise he came to grief."

Greer's views, first aired in Britain's Guardian newspaper on Tuesday, have drawn a sharp response in Australia from politicians and commentators.

Queensland state leader Peter Beattie told Greer to "back off" and labeled her comments "stupid" and "insensitive."

"Germaine Greer is just wrong and I just can't imagine anyone being more insensitive and, frankly, stupid," he said Thursday.

"This argument is just extreme radical rubbish from Germaine Greer and it couldn't come at a more insensitive time.

"Any suggestion that he (Irwin) mistreated animals is just rubbish ... he educated a generation."

Author John Birmingham, writing in The Australian newspaper Thursday, called Greer's comments "a poisonous discharge of bile" which encapsulated the views of a "whole class of Australian sophisticates" who felt uncomfortable with Irwin's global celebrity.

Greer is a frequent critic of personalities like British soccer star David Beckham and social trends like reality television, although she herself appeared briefly in Britain's Celebrity Big Brother series.

[Cheese]

I had to go to one her lectures a couple of years ago for my degree, she bored me to fucking tears. If there was any justice in the world she would get violated by a flock of stingrays.

[CrabGirl]

I absolutely detest that ugly harpy, even more so now.

[j2k4]

I absolutely detest that ugly harpy, even more so now.

Now, now...she's a respected academic; a shaper of public opinion...an honored liberal feminist, for God's sake.

She is worthy of your respect, you peons-just ask her. ;)

[Gripper]

Bet she's a dike.

[CrabGirl]

I absolutely detest that ugly harpy, even more so now.

Now, now...she's a respected academic; a shaper of public opinion...an honored liberal feminist, for God's sake.

She is worthy of your respect, you peons-just ask her. ;)


She's a harpie, a cantankerous witch, and a scold. I think her personality damages her politics, and I'd suggest perhaps locking her in a pen with one of Steve's crocs, but I like and respect wildlife too much for that.

[j2k4]

Now, now...she's a respected academic; a shaper of public opinion...an honored liberal feminist, for God's sake.

She is worthy of your respect, you peons-just ask her. ;)


She's a harpie, a cantankerous witch, and a scold. I think her personality damages her politics, and I'd suggest perhaps locking her in a pen with one of Steve's crocs, but I like and respect wildlife too much for that.

Ah, you're a good woman, woman.

You give me hope. :)

BTW, Gripper-

I think you've just identified yourself as a homophobe. :O

[namzuf9]

Man it annoys when I hear people talk about Irwins' death and they mention some crap like "oh well he knew the risks". For fucks sake would you say the same about some poor git who died in a car crash? "Sorry that your husband/wife/son/daughter is dead but you do know that thousands of people die in car crashes every year!"

RIP Steve Irwin

[Busyman™]

Man it annoys when I hear people talk about Irwins' death and they mention some crap like "oh well he knew the risks". For fucks sake would you say the same about some poor git who died in a car crash? "Sorry that your husband/wife/son/daughter is dead but you do know that thousands of people die in car crashes every year!"

RIP Steve Irwin

What's ironic too is that any other Irwindeathbyanimal would've made more sense but in this case it doesn't even seem like he was messing around with the animal.:blink:

People pet stingrays all the time and don't get stuck. He wasn't even petting.