OT: the Crocodile Hunter (Steve Irwin) is dead

[Hugh Manatee]

<i>I'm sure his people are going to do what they can to paint his demise as a fluke accident, one in a million, could have happened to anyone. Because doing so makes them feel better for helping him get in that situation and us feel better for watching.</i>


Actually from what I've seen on the news his death was exactly that. Stingrays are the most among the most docile critters in the sea(not unlike tuna), they have them in tanks at seaworld where you can pet them and feed them. It's not like he was jamming his finger up it's but when the stingray hit him, he was swimming along the floor of the sea and swam over one, it reacted as to swim away and it's spike got jammed in his chest right near his heart. These things have killed like 15 people over the last several years(I think in the recorded worldwide history of stingray attacks, it's double digits how many peopke get stung and die, he's number 15, most step on them, or like steve get hit if they are over them).

If he got his head bit off by a crock, yeah you'd be right, if a snake bit him 15 times in the face, you'd be right, but this is like getting bit by a poodle, getting a spilter, or eating a bad piece of lettuce, getting an infection/sick from it or getting hit in the chest by a baseball during a little league game and having your heart stop and dying that way.