Crikey, Steve Irwin dead

[i_got_a_mohawk]

And the plot thickens...

I saw that yesterday, but didnt want to post it

 

[James Hart]

I saw that yesterday, but didnt want to post it

that is called Tact. It's one of the defining points of a man IMO.

 

[Toasted]

that is called Tact. It's one of the defining points of a man IMO.

That could be the most ironic thing I've ever read.

 

[Aaron Saunders]

Holy bad taste, Batman!

My brother and I were regular watchers of his show for some time...what a guy. We stopped watching sometime after the Discovery Channel turned into motorcycles and hotrodding cars instead of animals. I find it hard to feel truly sorry though, because he did die doing what he loved, and the man came within a hair's breadth of dying so many times in the past.

 

[Diggler]

I would have bet that he would have been taken out by a lucky strike from a venomous snake. Stingray. Huh, go figure. It's hard to have fast reflexes when you're underwater, and thinking about it, it makes sense that something he's not very familiar with would be his undoing.

It's pretty unbelievable... yesterday, every once in a while and out of the blue, I'd catch myself thinking "Holy crap, Steve Irwin got killed from having a stingray stab him through the heart!" Just so bizzare that it's almost incomprehensable.

People like him definitely made the world more interesting.

 

[JAUQO III-X]

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[MAJOR METAL]

Thats really sad, RIP Steve.

 

[slugworth]

I always though he'd end up with a prosthetic limb from a Croc bite, not buy the farm...I hope he had good life insurance. Those stingrays are mean and strong. I've pulled up a few 100+ pounders while fishing at Catalina island. The last one I hooked into, we chased over a mile. Soon as we saw what it was, we cut it loose; I'm not gonna bring one of those onto the boat.

Bummer,
Slug

 

[Diggler]

Who the heck would have insured Steve Irwin?

 

[ryco]

Bless this guy! He was a little over the top, but he was a great human being for raising awareness of animal rights. The wildlife kingdom has lost a great defender!

 

[Diggler]

I would call him a conservationist, not an animal rights proponent, per 'se.

He had no problem with killing wild hogs on sight due to their impact on the natural environment.

 

[Jmann]

All I can say is
Stever Irwin was one of the few people on tv that I had a huge ammount of respect for, and I looked up to him alot. To me, Steve Irwin was invincable. This is the guy that we all saw catching tipans and king browns and wresteling 20ft crocs and always managing to get that top jaw rope on and capturing it... I still cant believe hes gone...

God bless you Steve Irwin, you did more for conservation than anyone else could

 

[tlwaps]

Crikey!!! Look at this viper snake here, she's a real beaut eh? With one deadly bite from 'er she can kill a 300 lbs. man in 8 seconds. So I'm gonna mess with her tail and then punch her in the face

 

[cassanova]

I know this is gonna sound sick and macabe, but Id like to see the video.

 

[Philbiker]

We stopped watching sometime after the Discovery Channel turned into motorcycles and hotrodding cars instead of animals.

That was about the same time they started a new network called Animal Planet....

RIP Steve. You'll be missed. CROCS RULE!

 

[KeithBMI]

I've seen plenty of joke pictures, but I don't want to throw them into this thread.

*edit* Screw it. I'm probably going to hell but...

Steve would have wanted us to laugh.

 

[mike_v_s]

I watched a bit on CNN last night. They ran the story like normal, then followed it up with a sort of "who's to blame?" piece. It kinda said that Irwin and the producers might be to blame of the accident and centered on "reality" TV getting more and more spectacular for ratings, etc. They followed the piece with a lead in to the Paula Zon (sic) show on self-mutilation and extreme plastic surgery.

Mike

 

[Diggler]

Who's to blame? Steve was a big boy; he made his own decisions and I don't think he'd have done it any other way. I bet if he thought there was an 80% chance he'd get stuck by the ray he'd have done it anyways.

KeithBMI: *snicker* that would be him!

 

[UnsungZeros]

It's all good folks. He's in a better place now.

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[tZer]

As much as it is easy to allow his celebrity to obscure what happened, he was a father and a husband. It just kills me to think of how his kids and wife must feel right now. Celebrity animal wrangler or not, this is just a horrible tragedy. I know he had a sense of humor about himself and had a great outlook on life in general - so I am not trying to down the light-hearted posts - some are funny in that dark humor sort of way - but I can't get past his poor kids and wife at this time.

My heart is with them.