OT: the Crocodile Hunter (Steve Irwin) is dead

dogscoff · #1 September 4th, 2006, 06:28 AM

Yes, it is a shame, but given the way he interacted with wild animals (ie going around pulling their tails) it's no great surprise. Had to catch up with him somewhen.

scJazz · #2 September 4th, 2006, 08:30 AM

The world is a poorer place without him in it expressing a love for wildlife and sharing that expression.

Randallw · #3 September 4th, 2006, 08:37 AM

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dogscoff said:
Yes, it is a shame, but given the way he interacted with wild animals (ie going around pulling their tails) it's no great surprise. Had to catch up with him somewhen.

The way all the news here put it is that he wasn't terrifying it or anything. Now if he was attacking a croc and it bit his head off that would be no surprise. The way we hear it was a freak accident. I don't know for sure but it was something like if he had stepped on it while wading through water. It doesn't seem to be poison but the tail barb stabbed him in the heart.

ps

Turns out he was just swimming. A stingray swum under him and then suddenly it just attacked him

http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/...222051512.html

dogscoff · #4 September 4th, 2006, 11:04 AM

Oh, sorry. My understanding was that he had been fatally stung by something that never ever attacks humans unless provoked (ie by pulling its tail) but I guess I was wrong.

Azselendor · #5 September 4th, 2006, 04:43 PM

Odds are that the stingray didn't notice steve irwin or thought he was something else and then panicked and attacked steve irwin.

Steve Irwin isn't someone that goes around provoking animals, he's an expert in his field for his whole life. He died doing what he loved, I only feel sorry that his kids will grow up without him.

Possum · #6 September 4th, 2006, 08:15 PM

The article I read said that this time of year the tiger sharks are aggressive, so the rays get more suspicious and defensive.

OK, major loss to us, but look on the brighter side.

He died with his boots on (well, fins), and the sun in his eyes. He died young, doing something he loved. He died quickly, with no lingering agony or indignity. He died like a man.

Statistically, most of us will die old and useless, in a hospital, with a tube up our nose and a foley catheter strapped to our withered old tallywhacker.

Compared to that, he was lucky.

narf poit chez BOOM · #7 September 4th, 2006, 08:33 PM

I don't count dying with life still ahead of me 'lucky'.

AgentZero · #8 September 4th, 2006, 08:41 PM

Man, that just... sucks. There's no other word for it. I used to love watching his show on lazy Saturday afternoons.

Renegade 13 · #9 September 5th, 2006, 04:02 PM

I also agree. He was reckless and it was bound to catch up to him eventually. I'm not saying what happened wasn't tragic, merely inevitable.

Intimidator · #10 September 5th, 2006, 05:47 PM

I Don't believe he was reckless, I think he was smart enought to considder what could and what could NOT be done to an animal........... But you CAN NOT hug Crocodile's, kis snakes and take a bath with sharks and expect that it will work fine for the restr of your life....... so inevitable indeed..