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BRISBANE, Australia - Steve Irwin, the hugely popular Australian television personality and environmentalist known as the “Crocodile Hunter,” was killed Monday by a stingray during a diving expedition, Australian media said. He was 44. (NBCMSN)
I'm shocked. This guy has been on late-inght talk shows just recently and having survived so much crazy stuff he'd be thought for much longer time with us.
Pissed off one too many beasites then.
Saw this coming a mile off. A nob head for sure, but he seemed passionate abour critters.
Large parts of Australia are in mourning today. He may have come across as a bit of an idiot, but he was a great ambassador for wildlife and tourism. People I know who met him say that in real life he was exactly as he was on camera.
He managed to turn a minor zoo that he inherited into a global business empire as well.
He will be missed.
RIP
Shedligan wrote: Large parts of Australia are in mourning today. He may have come across as a bit of an idiot, but he was a great ambassador for wildlife and tourism. People I know who met him say that in real life he was exactly as he was on camera.
He managed to turn a minor zoo that he inherited into a global business empire as well.
He will be missed.
RIP
feel sorry for the kids, Bindi & Bob. Terrible news. often watched his show. headline news here this morning.
Shedligan wrote: Large parts of Australia are in mourning today. He may have come across as a bit of an idiot, but he was a great ambassador for wildlife and tourism. People I know who met him say that in real life he was exactly as he was on camera.
He managed to turn a minor zoo that he inherited into a global business empire as well.
He will be missed.
RIP
Couldn't have said it better myself, Ron. The work that he did for the environment will be sorely missed.
Yeah,always brought a smile to my face when he was on TV. At least he went doing something he was obviously passionate about.
Very sad news.He made some good telly with all the crocs and snakes,and seemed to genuinly love all the animals he handled..Mesmerised us in our house with some of the fearless shit he pulled,always came across as an over excited kid,but knew his stuff and always got the better of the beasts...until now.Quite shocked!
You spend your life diving onto crocodiles and waving snakes about, only to be the fourth person in Oz's history to be killed by a stingray. God really does have an odd sense of humour.
R.I.P. Steve
Really sad news, he was very passionate about animals and conservatiion. I was really shocked this morning. I always thought if he went it would be in the jaws of a croc.
R.I.P. Steve
RIP
Thank you for endless hours of laughs, education and entertainment. Thank you for caring for the Earth.
ps get the lead singer of Iron Maiden to take his spot.
He had a fairly stupid attitude towards animals and used them entirely for entertainment. The educational aspect of his TV show was virtually nil; the main focus was on distressing the animals in order to provoke them into violent behaviour. There’s probably a whole generation of kids with the impressions about the animals he featured, which are on the whole fairly passive. More worryingly, his stage-management of the supposed ‘attacks’ was designed to generate the impression that it was quite easy to get out of the way. Doubtless this was intended to portray himself as having special abilities, but was irresponsible from the point of view of encouraging copycat behaviour.
It might be interesting to see what he was up to with the stingray. He’s one of only a handful of people to manage to be killed by one: they are not in the habit of attacking people. If he died doing what he did best – abusing animals – then I suppose there’s been some sort of justice.
I suppose it’s all quite sad, but I can’t say I’m really very arsed.
J.A.K wrote:
Try to read it one sentence at a time and miss out any words you don't understand.
Apparently his death crashed news sites accross oz. 
He was the one who had his baby in his arm while he was poking a crock or something right?
C-Ro wrote: Apparently his death crashed news sites accross oz.
He was the one who had his baby in his arm while he was poking a crock or something right?
But that's just Darwin being proved right again.
C-Ro wrote: Apparently his death crashed news sites accross oz.
He was the one who had his baby in his arm while he was poking a crock or something right?
couldn't even get on the Australia Zoo website as well.
crashed??
RIP Steve.He was an entertaing guy although i kind of agree with what Colin said in his post.
And swinging his 10 month old son around in the front of a Croc was unforgivable.
What a way to go though. I thought he'd get beheaded by a Iguana or something, rather than stung by a stingray.
Well, the Steve Irwin impressionists the world over will have to find a new hobby (you know what I'm talkin' about, those people who randomly yell out "Crikey!" for no reason thanks to him) 
It was fun while it lasted, but the Croc Hunter is down for the count. Adios, Steve 
he would have been alright if he had been wearing sunscreen whilst diving,i understand it keeps out harmfull rays.
dumb cunt.
mike powell wrote: he would have been alright if he had been wearing sunscreen whilst diving,i understand it keeps out harmfull rays.
dumb cunt.
Good one. Ironically, a lot more people die from sun rays than stingrays.
I'm not surprised he was killed; I just never thought it would be a stingray. Nice car though.
I didn't want to be the first...
BE THE ENVY OF ALL THE OTHER CROCODILESGET THE NEW, EXCLUSIVESTEVE IRWIN SKIN HANDBAG
There's no need for that 
I've been moderated.
It does seem a strange way for him to go after all the risks he took; getting killed by a Fish?!?!? ah well I guess it could have been stranger could have been killed by a bee or choked on a chicken bone
What a bloody shame.He was a mad bastard,but an entertaining one at that.
RIP STEVE. (There'ya Hooky chuck that on your speakers mate)
Minx wrote: It does seem a strange way for him to go after all the risks he took; getting killed by a Fish?!?!? ah well I guess it could have been stranger could have been killed by a bee or choked on a chicken bone
Nah it wasn't A stingray, it was the World Aquanaut Security Patrol's finest ship, Stingray under the command of Captain Troy Tempest. They fired 2 sting missiles right up his chuff.
apart from various memories of him waving snakes about and jumpin onto crocodiles, my best memory of him is South Park. "Now i'm gonna stick my thumb up its ass! That'll really piss it off!"
Must confess that while reading the report of his death, a loop was playing in my brain of "this ere's a stingray folks, it's a realative of the shark and it's got giant banks of stinging cells along along it's ventral surface, enough to kill a man....now I'm gonna sneak over there and stick my thumb right up it's butt-hole....that'll REALLY piss it off."
I'm really surprised that the whole world seems to respect this guy now he's dead.
I seem to remember everyone taking the piss out of him up until this morning.
Is this the Diana effect all over again?
Diamond White wrote: I'm really surprised that the whole world seems to respect this guy now he's dead.
I seem to remember everyone taking the piss out of him up until this morning.
Is this the Diana effect all over again?
LOL....was thinking the same thing in the same terms.
Fuck, can you imagine what an intelligent, thoughtful and wise man Shrub will be when he croaks.
Doctor? wrote:
Diamond White wrote: I'm really surprised that the whole world seems to respect this guy now he's dead.
I seem to remember everyone taking the piss out of him up until this morning.
Is this the Diana effect all over again?
LOL....was thinking the same thing in the same terms.
Fuck, can you imagine what an intelligent, thoughtful and wise man Shrub will be when he croaks.
Who is a shrub?
I think in time it'll be okay to mock him again, but for now we have to think about his wife and kids. They're certainly not laughing at the irony of his passing.
Of course, I'm a huge asshole, so I'll be back to making fun of him by tomorrow 
Taboo # 7 wrote: I think in time it'll be okay to mock him again, but for now we have to think about his wife and kids. They're certainly not laughing at the irony of his passing.
Of course, I'm a huge asshole, so I'll be back to making fun of him by tomorrow
Why do you have to make fun of someone all the time, sicko? Take it as it is.
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Doctor? wrote:
Diamond White wrote: I'm really surprised that the whole world seems to respect this guy now he's dead.
I seem to remember everyone taking the piss out of him up until this morning.
Is this the Diana effect all over again?
LOL....was thinking the same thing in the same terms.
Fuck, can you imagine what an intelligent, thoughtful and wise man Shrub will be when he croaks.
Who is a shrub?
Shrub is W Bush....instead of being a big tree...he is umm mentally a shurb
DiscoShed wrote:
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Doctor? wrote:
Diamond White wrote: I'm really surprised that the whole world seems to respect this guy now he's dead.
I seem to remember everyone taking the piss out of him up until this morning.
Is this the Diana effect all over again?
LOL....was thinking the same thing in the same terms.
Fuck, can you imagine what an intelligent, thoughtful and wise man Shrub will be when he croaks.
Who is a shrub?
Shrub is W Bush....instead of being a big tree...he is umm mentally a shurb
We call him here Dubya. BTW I love your avatar image. Pure disco.
Excerpt from a recent interview with the man himself:
Interviewer: 'So Steve, you have a great following amongst children and your shows are always popular with a younger audience. Tell me, what shows did you enjoy watching as a youngster?'
Steve Irwin: 'Well, I was always a big fan of anything to do with puppets. The Muppets, Captain Scarlet, Thunderbirds, and I'll always have a place in my heart for Stingray'.
He'll probably become an Andy Kaufman type: he's not really dead, but in hiding, as it was his sense of humour.
as a few have mentioned before, i never thought he'd go this way. then again, it's a bit like harry houdini: died when someone punched him (as part of a stunt) and he bled to death from the inside. a similar freak occurrence. anyhoo, he was an entertaining guy: lots of energy and charisma.
Shedligan wrote: Well, if he'd had some sunscreen on he'd have been OK, it protects you from harmful rays...
That's just WRONG!!!
JHC
68Pontiac wrote:
Shedligan wrote: Well, if he'd had some sunscreen on he'd have been OK, it protects you from harmful rays...
JHC
Not to mention(though I just did ) that Mike Powell cracked a similar awful joke to that one earlier in this thread...points off for plagarism Ron
Gillian Fanciers Association wrote:
68Pontiac wrote:
Shedligan wrote: Well, if he'd had some sunscreen on he'd have been OK, it protects you from harmful rays...
JHC
Not to mention(though I just did
it's not an original anyway.
seals wrote: Sounds like his luck just ran out. Am I the only one who never heard of him before this
fuckinell. where have you been the last 5 years.
gaol in Scotland?
J.A.K wrote:
seals wrote: Sounds like his luck just ran out. Am I the only one who never heard of him before this
fuckinell. where have you been the last 5 years. gaol in Scotland?
You guessed it ! 
seals wrote:
J.A.K wrote:
seals wrote: Sounds like his luck just ran out. Am I the only one who never heard of him before this
fuckinell. where have you been the last 5 years. gaol in Scotland?
You guessed it !
oops!!
sorry pal.
Diamond White wrote:
It might be interesting to see what he was up to with the stingray. He’s one of only a handful of people to manage to be killed by one: they are not in the habit of attacking people. If he died doing what he did best – abusing animals – then I suppose there’s been some sort of justice.
I suppose it’s all quite sad, but I can’t say I’m really very arsed.
This from CNN :"He and the underwater cameraman went out to do some pieces on the reef and coral and stuff good for the kids' show and, unfortunately, he came out over the top of a stingray that was buried in the sand and the barb went up and hit him in the chest."
Thousand of people a year get stung by sting rays, but deaths are very rare unless it stikes a vital organ, as it did in Steve's case (the heart).
"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." The police, who will pass the footage on to the coroner, insisted Irwin had not provoked the stingray. Superintendent Mike Keating, of Queensland police, said: "There is no evidence that Mr Irwin was intimidating or threatening the stingray. My advice is that he was observing the stingray."
So he saw the 'ray and got too close - for once he wasn't goading the animal to attack.
Kids who live in areas where singrays live are always told to stay away from them. Hopefully this sad event will re-inforce that lesson.
Irwin always insisted that the cameras would keep rolling if anything bad should ever happen to him. Now they have to decide whether to show the footage on TV.
Diamond White wrote: If he died doing what he did best – abusing animals – then I suppose there’s been some sort of justice.
Diamond White wrote:
Irwin always insisted that the cameras would keep rolling if anything bad should ever happen to him. Now they have to decide whether to show the footage on TV.
That will be a tough call. I'll vote for 'not'. It would sure get good ratings, though.
I've just thought - if Steve-O pulled the spike out of his chest, it must have come free of the stingray.
Does that mean the 'ray dies, like when a bee stings you?
That would be a shame.
Diamond White wrote: I've just thought - if Steve-O pulled the spike out of his chest, it must have come free of the stingray.
Does that mean the 'ray dies, like when a bee stings you?
That would be a shame.
Dunno. They showed some aquarium in the US where they allow you to pet them as they swim by, showing how docile they are. Those ones have had their stingers removed, surgically of course, which really doesn't answer your question. Maybe we can google it?
Diamond White wrote: He had a fairly stupid attitude towards animals and used them entirely for entertainment. The educational aspect of his TV show was virtually nil; the main focus was on distressing the animals in order to provoke them into violent behaviour. There’s probably a whole generation of kids with the impressions about the animals he featured, which are on the whole fairly passive. More worryingly, his stage-management of the supposed ‘attacks’ was designed to generate the impression that it was quite easy to get out of the way. Doubtless this was intended to portray himself as having special abilities, but was irresponsible from the point of view of encouraging copycat behaviour.
It might be interesting to see what he was up to with the stingray. He’s one of only a handful of people to manage to be killed by one: they are not in the habit of attacking people. If he died doing what he did best – abusing animals – then I suppose there’s been some sort of justice.
I suppose it’s all quite sad, but I can’t say I’m really very arsed.
Amen to that.
As a biologist, this guy just pissed me off. There is absolutely no need to get that kind of reaction from everything you study. Maybe he wanted to spread the word about conservation, but I think he just used the animals for cheap entertainment.
When I go into the field, it's about observation, not just grabbing everything just to make it mad.
I will not miss this guy.
fishguy190 wrote:
Diamond White wrote: He had a fairly stupid attitude towards animals and used them entirely for entertainment. The educational aspect of his TV show was virtually nil; the main focus was on distressing the animals in order to provoke them into violent behaviour. There’s probably a whole generation of kids with the impressions about the animals he featured, which are on the whole fairly passive. More worryingly, his stage-management of the supposed ‘attacks’ was designed to generate the impression that it was quite easy to get out of the way. Doubtless this was intended to portray himself as having special abilities, but was irresponsible from the point of view of encouraging copycat behaviour.
It might be interesting to see what he was up to with the stingray. He’s one of only a handful of people to manage to be killed by one: they are not in the habit of attacking people. If he died doing what he did best – abusing animals – then I suppose there’s been some sort of justice.
I suppose it’s all quite sad, but I can’t say I’m really very arsed.
Amen to that.
As a biologist, this guy just pissed me off. There is absolutely no need to get that kind of reaction from everything you study. Maybe he wanted to spread the word about conservation, but I think he just used the animals for cheap entertainment.
When I go into the field, it's about observation, not just grabbing everything just to make it mad.
I will not miss this guy.
Your TV show has just been cancelled.
Shellshocker wrote:
Diamond White wrote: I've just thought - if Steve-O pulled the spike out of his chest, it must have come free of the stingray.
Does that mean the 'ray dies, like when a bee stings you?
That would be a shame.
Dunno. They showed some aquarium in the US where they allow you to pet them as they swim by, showing how docile they are. Those ones have had their stingers removed, surgically of course, which really doesn't answer your question. Maybe we can google it?
they have that at sea world here in orlando. rubbery creatures, they are. and soft. i don't think they die when they sting you as far as i know, otherwise they would die when the stingers were removed for the 'petting tank,' i believe.
as for the program he was taping: it was called 'the ocean's deadliest.' fancy that.
Shellshocker wrote:
fishguy190 wrote:
Diamond White wrote: He had a fairly stupid attitude towards animals and used them entirely for entertainment. The educational aspect of his TV show was virtually nil; the main focus was on distressing the animals in order to provoke them into violent behaviour. There’s probably a whole generation of kids with the impressions about the animals he featured, which are on the whole fairly passive. More worryingly, his stage-management of the supposed ‘attacks’ was designed to generate the impression that it was quite easy to get out of the way. Doubtless this was intended to portray himself as having special abilities, but was irresponsible from the point of view of encouraging copycat behaviour.
It might be interesting to see what he was up to with the stingray. He’s one of only a handful of people to manage to be killed by one: they are not in the habit of attacking people. If he died doing what he did best – abusing animals – then I suppose there’s been some sort of justice.
I suppose it’s all quite sad, but I can’t say I’m really very arsed.
Amen to that.
As a biologist, this guy just pissed me off. There is absolutely no need to get that kind of reaction from everything you study. Maybe he wanted to spread the word about conservation, but I think he just used the animals for cheap entertainment.
When I go into the field, it's about observation, not just grabbing everything just to make it mad.
I will not miss this guy.
Your TV show has just been cancelled.
OH MAN, I knew being a goody goody was gonna get me in trouble:D
Heard this last night,judge for yourself (it is NOT my joke).
On a recent TV show Steve Irwin said that as a kid,Thunderbirds was his all time favorite show. However,he would always have a special place in his heart for Stingray.
Ouch!
The only creatures he couldn't dominate were parrots. A parrot once did its best to rip his nose off his face. Parrots are a lot smarter than crocodiles.
Germaine Greer also had some very unkind things to say about him, something like nature taking it's revenge.
It caused a bit of controversy here.
When were all these people complaining when he was alive??? I never heard them. Kinda pointless once he's dead, isn't it? Not a reason to destroy the moment of his death.
JHC
