He was an embarrassment to Australia. But he was also a hero. He has saved the lives of countless cameramen who would've fallen into crocodile-ridden swamps otherwise and he's also helped crocodiles give birth. And for that.. he shall always be remembered.
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To sum it up: "That really sucks."
I'm from Australia and I first heard about it this afternoon during school, at about... 3pm. One of the teachers came into our Geo class, holding her laptop, and started to talk about this email that had been going around the school network - Steve Irwin had died in a freak accident. I'm amazed at the power of the internet\television\radio\phone as a means of communicating information. This event only happened during the morning.
To me, being Australian, it doesn't affect me directly all that much. Sure it's sad, as any death is; in our country he was looked upon as almost a joke, however nobody could have wished for this. I think he was more important to people in America, and I even heard that he was better known over there than John Howard. He will still be missed by me, not to mention he had a wife and two kids.
Didn't really believe it when I first saw it. I'm not really that surprised. There was one episode where a spitting cobra spit venom on him, he wore goggles to protect his eyes, but wiped his eyes against his shirt, which had venom spit on it. I guess after seeing him poke crocodiles and other creatures, it's a miracle he lasted as long as he did and I guess he misjudged the range of that stinger when filming the stingray. RIP.
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Never watched him ever. It's a sad thought that a guy died. Lots of people die everyday though, and I had no connection to Steve Irwin so it doesn't really affect me.
What's really weird is that my 4 yr old daughter went to the DVD rack the other day and pulled out Croc Hunter Collision Course to watch. We hadn't watched that one in 2 or 3 years. Then this happens today, it's really sad.
He may have been viewed as a joke in Aus, but I think he kept up his persona knowing that he was seen as a lovable goofball who tempted death on a regular basis. I feel the most for his wife and two little kids. I know personally my family and I enjoyed his shows many times.
Oh, and to think that he wasn't even in his element too. Nobody would stand a chance against a ray's tailwhip while underwater. At least on land he could've had a shot at avoiding a lunging snake.
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"I'm amazed at the power of the internet\television\radio\phone as a means of communicating information. This event only happened during the morning."
Lol yeah, I saw this before going to school this morning, and his wikipedia page, and all pages related to sting rays had already been edited. I'm a wikipedia idiot
Del Duio he probably was in his element, Ive seen loads of stuff where he goes diving in the ocean with a scary excited look in his eyes. He went hunting for sea snakes once
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I never was a huge fan of his documentaries, but the guy was classic. I didn't believe it when I heard... I dunno, I just felt like the guy was immortal. We have lost an icon, but he died doing what he loved.
RIP, Mr. Irwin
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Hey, wikipedia has a 'recent vandalism' block on stingrays that wasn't there yesterday.
Personally, I'd rather die a quick, glorious death than to die with a disease, heart attack, or cancer. At least he died instantly, not being bloated by snake venom or with his neck being slowly torn off by a croc or anything. Personally, I'd rather die of assassination. Shows that someone cares enough to throw away their future for mine .
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For some weird reason I imagined him trying to cuddle the stingray...
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6th September, 2006 at 08:50:11 -
I read recently there is video footage of Irwin being stabbed and then pulling out the barb, moments before he dies. It is under the control of the police now, and will be destroyed so that nobody will ever be able to see it again. One person who saw it said they never wanted to see it again.
He was pretty much screwed either way, the toxins from the barb are extremely dangerous also, at that split second he would probably have realised about the toxins alot quicker than the fact that his heart had been punctured.
He knew that if he left the barb in there, he'd die pretty quickly anyway. I think that if it didn't go through his heart, he would have probably survived. So pulling it out was the only solution - shows how brave he was though I guess. Such a shame that he was so unlucky though..
Odds are a hit to anywhere in the chest would trigger a heart attack, and I'm not sure, but I think those are bad things to have when you're underwater.
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Hey, if something put a 20 cm barb in my chest, I'd pull it out immediately. I mean it's not like I'd know if I was bleeding to death, all I'd care about is getting rid of the pain. He was pretty much doomed either way, all the pressure from being underwater would've made him bleed faster.
Though personally, I'd rather not see any videos of anyone dying... *especially* if it was an instant death one and even more so if it was someone I know. The videos of random hostages having their heads chopped off is disturbing enough .
But I could actually imagine him pointing at and poking the ray, judging from well.. a lot of Crocodile Hunter documentaries I've seen. I'm sure most fans of his work would agree... but I guess they'd rather assume it was accidental, which is kinda unheroic.
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Hey, he villanized the stingray. That's got to be worth something. Before this, stingrays were just those big cute things that even children would try to poke.
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I also heard that the ray that got him was upwards of 220 pounds. 220 POUNDS!! I thought it was a little one, holy crap isn't that in the Manta Ray range??
Oh, and I thought that it was his natural instinct that made him pull the barb out like that. It was such a surprise to him it was probably an instant reaction deal. And think about it- if he left it in he'd be tethered- by the HEART- to a freaked out and thrashing 220 stingray! He was doomed either way.
I'd rather the footage be destroyed personally, but I also heard that even his wife is considering showing the tape, or some of it at least. Something about how Steve always told everyone to keep the cameras rolling no matter what- even if he gets killed he wanted that on tape. If that's true, I still think he wouldn't want this shown since this stingray attack was not the focus of the documentary at the time. If he was trying to corrale a giant croc and gets his leg torn off, I can see that, but shooting underwater colorful coral reef fish and getting jacked by a hidden ray- I dunno.
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Haunted by ill angels only,
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On a black throne reigns upright,
I have reached these lands but newly
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Out of space
Out of time.
That just sucks that the barb dodged his entire ribcage and went STRAIGHT into his heart. Usually the barb's toxins are just painful as hell. I don't know if you could get owned any harder by a stingray.
Assuming there's some sort of personal heaven afterlife dealy, he probably gets to wrestle stingrays for a while before he goes back to crocs.
There's a big article in People magazine about it today too. He's only the 3rd person EVER to die from a stingray in the whole of Austraila, and the 17th overall. I really wish it had hit him in the leg instead of the WORST POSSIBLE AREA! I wonder if 10-15 years from now his daughter will continue on the Irwin legacy?
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Maybe. I would say his son would be more likely, but hes only a baby and wont get chance to witness his fathers passions and way he worked like Bindi (sp?) did
He'll probably be immortalized kinda like Freddy Mercury, but not to the point of Kurt Cobain. Hmm.. I wonder what happened to Frances Cobain..
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