Steve "Crocodile man" Irwin dead!!

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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.

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He is now dead for real it seems, sting ray aimed at his heart they say . 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 . 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

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R I P steve you will be missed

[Skiz]

http://www.spikedhumor.com/articles/...dile_Dies.html

[Monkeee]

Damn heared about this, RIP Steve Irwin

[Busyman]

What a bitch.

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.