Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin killed

Honeykiss1974 · #1 09-04-2006, 01:03 AM

BRISBANE, Australia - Steve Irwin, the Australian television personality and environmentalist known as the Crocodile Hunter, was killed Monday by a stingray barb during a diving expedition, Australian media reported. He was 44.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060904/..._tv/obit_irwin

Dag

My prayers go out to his family.

FAB*SpiceySpice · #2 09-04-2006, 01:08 AM

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! This can't be true. I love him so much.

When I went to Australia in high school I had no clue who he was until we went to his zoo and got to meet him and I have loved him ever since; he never fails to crack me up. This is so sad.

phisigduchesscv · #3 09-04-2006, 02:40 AM

We watch his programs everyday at home. I love his show. At least he died doing what he loved.

Rest in Peace Steve Irwin. May God be with your friends and family.

Carolyn

_Opi_ · #4 09-04-2006, 02:49 AM

No way

Senusret I · #5 09-04-2006, 07:37 AM

that's messed up, for real.

lilbay77 · #6 09-04-2006, 08:49 AM

Is this the guy who had his new born baby in his arms while messing with an alligator?

UofISigKap · #7 09-04-2006, 08:53 AM

That's sad. I liked watching his adventures.

The death was ironic though: "It was extraordinarily bad luck. It's not easy to get spined by a stingray and to be killed by one is very rare," Collin said.

He worked with dangerous animals all the time that would very easily bite, but then to be taken by a rare freak accident... I feel terrible for his wife and kids.

MBurden · #8 09-04-2006, 02:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Honeykiss1974

BRISBANE, Australia - Steve Irwin, the Australian television personality and environmentalist known as the Crocodile Hunter, was killed Monday by a stingray barb during a diving expedition, Australian media reported. He was 44.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060904/..._tv/obit_irwin

Dag

My prayers go out to his family.

The only thing I remember about that guy is when he held his 4 month old son over a crock in a show....he actually thought he had 100% control over that animal.

KillarneyRose · #9 09-04-2006, 02:07 PM

How terrible! Not to be flippant, but if it was his time to go, I'm sure he would have rather died the way he did than, say, in a plane crash or from a disease. It seems a fitting (if premature) end for someone who lived larger than life.

RIP, Steve.

DSTCHAOS · #10 09-04-2006, 03:46 PM

I was so shocked to read about this on Yahoo.

He died doing something he loved but I first thought they were going to say that he was killed by a crocodile. Then I was going to be like "see...leave those damn animals alone...died playing with some animals." He still died by playing with animals...or was he not messing with the stingray when it killed him?

DSTCHAOS · #11 09-04-2006, 03:52 PM

Irwin was at Batt Reef, off the remote coast of northeastern Queensland state, shooting a segment for a series called "Ocean's Deadliest" when he swam too close to one of the animals, which have a poisonous barb on their tails, his friend and colleague John Stainton said.

The irony is quite sad. Not to mention that while stingray's are potentially deadly, it is rare to be killed by one because of the location of most of the stings.

"He came on top of the stingray and the stingray's barb went up and into his chest and put a hole into his heart," said Stainton, who was on board Irwin's boat at the time.

Ouch. This is so rare and such a case of "bad luck."