OT: the Crocodile Hunter (Steve Irwin) is dead

Hugh Manatee · #1 September 5th, 2006, 10:24 PM

<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.

Atrocities · #2 September 6th, 2006, 03:37 AM

His death falls squarely under the heading of "[censored] happens."

I just wish that it didn't have to happen. He will be sorely missed.

Black_Knyght · #3 September 6th, 2006, 05:14 AM

I agree with AT here !!! Steve Irwin made the anmimal interaction he film appear entertaing and interesting, by adding a measure of danger to a jovial presentation. But never was he "reckless" or "unprofessional". He knew exactly what the limits were with the animals he dealt with, and was actually very wary of unusual behavior.

Getting stung by the Stingray wasn't actually much of an issue, as I understand it. WHERE he got stung was certainly more the issue. I've heard it said that same attack, striking a limb or different area, would've hurt like hell and been something to talk about in a later show. Getting hit in the heart is what made it a fatal accident.

Black_Knyght · #4 September 6th, 2006, 05:15 AM

'He lived with such passion'

Irwin's last moments caught on videotape