Steve "Crocodile man" Irwin dead!!

[brenda]

I felt a pang of sadness when I heard but i also kept laughing everytime I heard the story on the news 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

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.

[j2k4]

...a vending machine is a vegetable.

Utter rubbish.

[Proper Bo]

[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