[Starhawk]

Geoschmo first off it was never as risky as you'd think if you actually watched the series you'd know that, he knew when NOT to get to close to an animal and did so most of the time, grabbing the snakes by the tail even wasn't as dangerous as you'd think, a lot of snakes are totally unable to go from a fully streight position to folding back on themselves for a strike, (they can curl up in a "ball" but they apparently can't fold their bodies properly to strike) even Irwin said this a few times when he grabbed a snake, you notice he also never continued to antagonize the animal, he'd show the viewer what it could do and let it on it's way, Not like this one idiot who kept harassing a poor cobra even after it spit in his eye and bit him, he went ot hospital got treated and came right back to harass it.

Anyway this also had nothing to do with reckless or careless it was a simple tragic fowl up that no one will get, and from what I've heard of the video basically no one even SAW the stingray until it had stabbed steve through the heart....even the Cameraman had no idea what was going on until later.