Steve Irwin is dead!

Obfleur · Post by **Obfleur** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 7:54 am

He died.
A stingray got him.

Post by **snarl** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 8:14 am

http://www.iesb.net/index.php?option=co ... &Itemid=99

I posted it in news by accident...

It's odd because you always watch him and go 'you ****, I hope that crock bites your ******* legs off' but always think at the back of your mind he'll keep on getting away with it.

And now he's actually dead...

odd.

Post by **Best First** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 8:17 am

wife and kids left behind.

RIP

Legion · Post by **Legion** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 9:54 am

tis a sad day!

and it wasn't even a croc that got him in the end!

Aaron Hong · Post by **Aaron Hong** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 10:13 am

I saw him on TV this one time, when he said he had antitoxins against cobras and so on - but when it gets you in the heart you really can't treat it fast enough.

Impactor returns 2.0 · Post by **Impactor returns 2.0** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 10:16 am

Ugh - that made me cry today, watching his family on TV and stuff...

Great guy! I cant imagine how his family and friends feel right now, he leaves so much behind.

So I understand a Stingray killed him, hows that?

Post by **spiderfrommars** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 10:19 am

Impactor returns 2.0 wrote:
So I understand a Stingray killed him, hows that?

It's tail pierced his heart.

Would've been more poetic if it had been a croc...

Sad loss tho. He was mental.

Sort of off topic: has anyone seen Grizzly Man? Good film.

Post by **Best First** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 10:26 am

apparently this is an incredibly rare form of death.

a sad irony that he has regularly faced off against critters that kill people quite often and been fine but then ends up a victim of a highly unlikley end.

as an aside its amazing how fast wiki is updated.

Legion · Post by **Legion** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 11:12 am

Impactor returns 2.0 wrote:Great guy! I cant imagine how his family and friends feel right now, he leaves so much behind.

Totally, someone who was so full of energy and always on the go will be missed terribly.

Best First wrote: as an aside its amazing how fast wiki is updated.

it is isn't it?

Impactor returns 2.0 · Post by **Impactor returns 2.0** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 11:18 am

supposedly it was only the 2nd death from a stingray in Aus - and the 3rd reported in the world ever...

Considering he messed around with animals that kills hundreds of ppl every year - the term 'Ironic' seems under-rated.

Predabot · Post by **Predabot** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 1:05 pm

OMG!!

NOOOOoo!!! Steve was one of the coolest men in entertainment that I've ever seen!

I always got both a good laugh and learnt something when I watched his shows. I'm sad to see him gone... because there's really no-one that can take his place.

I didn't know that he had just become a father... at first I thought that it would only be his poor wife left alone, but now it will be a kid that will grow up without a father too...

Optimus Prime Rib · Post by **Optimus Prime Rib** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 3:39 pm

Crikey

Ill be going now.

Aaron Hong · Post by **Aaron Hong** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 4:02 pm

Predabot wrote:OMG!!

I didn't know that he had just become a father... at first I thought that it would only be his poor wife left alone, but now it will be a kid that will grow up without a father too...

You missed that news about him feeding a croc while carrying his baby, then?

I remember watching this local travel show where the hosts were sent to Australia, and met with Terri Irwin and daughter Bindi Sue. Sue in particular was old enough to host a bit about animals in the Australian Zoo, and do a bit of wrangling of her own. Smart kid.

Shanti418 · Post by **Shanti418** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 4:53 pm

It's mainly sad because of the aforementioned wife and kids. Otherwise, he was a hell of a guy who loved what he did, and did it until he died. The odds of him being stung in the heart is astronomically bad, but he beat the odds doing lots of other crazy s*** over his life.

spiderfrommars wrote:Sort of off topic: has anyone seen Grizzly Man? Good film.

Yes, yes it was. Crazy stuff. But cool too. You know, dude gives up booze b/c of the animals, figures he owes the animals his life and devotes the rest of his life to them. Yeah, he's going to die eventually, but from his point of view, all the life post drink he owed to them anyway.

Regardless, I wish I could romp around in the wilderness with fox friends.

Stormwolf · Post by **Stormwolf** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 8:25 pm

I always expected him to be eaten by a croc some day, quite a twist that he got killed by creature that is mostly considered harmless.

Professor Smooth · Post by **Professor Smooth** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 8:55 pm

I always suspected he would be killed in an incredibly unlikely way. Sad to see that I was right. I'll miss his crazy-ass environmentalism.

Post by **spiderfrommars** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 10:34 pm

Shanti418 wrote:
Regardless, I wish I could romp around in the wilderness with fox friends.

Yeah, the whole thing was cute, sad and disturbing at the same time.

Impactor returns 2.0 · Post by **Impactor returns 2.0** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 12:02 am

this - is good.

sprunkner · Post by **sprunkner** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 12:30 am

I'll second that Crikey.

Yaya · Post by **Yaya** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 1:22 am

Yeah, I'm saddened by this news too. Feel bad for his family.

If there's one place on this Earth that is both extremely fascinating and extremely dangerous at the same time, its the Great Barrier Reef.

Jazz · Post by **Jazz** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 4:09 am

Man that sucks, well rip

Professor Smooth · Post by **Professor Smooth** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 9:56 pm

Does anybody think there'll be a replacement? What would the reaction to a New Crocodile Hunter be?

Post by **Best First** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 10:06 pm

the gnashing of teeth?

sorry...

BB Shockwave · Post by **BB Shockwave** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 9:48 pm

You know how rumors get... the day after he died, a collegue told me an electric ray shocked him to death...

The thing is, being a biologist I know a few things about rays (OK not much, but I did take sea-ecology studies). You see the stinger is located on the middle of the stingray's long, whip-like tail... Usually most accidents happen when the stingray is hidden under sand and someone stepts on them - then the ray raises it's stinger-spike so that it stabs into your leg. Ouch.

But according to what I heard, Steve got his heart pierced by the stinger... which I find pretty hard to believe, as with the location of the stinger on the ray's tail, it could only scratch his chest, not stab it into his heart with such force--- (apparently he was swimming and the stingray swam below him)....

Hmm, maybe it was murder... someone tooka ray and stabbed him with it!

OK now I'm being paranoid.... but being stabbed by a swimming ray, straight into the heart - certainly an odd form of death.

Poor Steve....

He lived a dangerous life, and died by 'nature's hand' so to speak, but not by the jaws of the gators/crocodiles he worked with the most. I heard Animal Planet will be doing a documentary on his life now....

Brendocon · Post by **Brendocon** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 9:58 pm

BB Shockwave wrote:But according to what I heard, Steve got his heart pierced by the stinger... which I find pretty hard to believe, as with the location of the stinger on the ray's tail, it could only scratch his chest, not stab it into his heart with such force--- (apparently he was swimming and the stingray swam below him)....

Depends... if it sort of whipped across him, depending on the force, angle and hitting the exact spot, it could got between the ribs and into the heart. You can get some pretty hefty whip on something that long, even with the barb being in the middle. A "batting" motion, if you will...

Hmm, maybe it was murder... someone tooka ray and stabbed him with it! OK now I'm being paranoid.... but being stabbed by a swimming ray, straight into the heart - certainly an odd form of death.

Well, it's been caught on film... whether we peons ever get to see it (as I understand he always wanted) is another matter...

Obfleur · Post by **Obfleur** » Fri Sep 08, 2006 7:51 am

Well, the police have seen the film, so if it was murder they would've seen it.

BB Shockwave · Post by **BB Shockwave** » Fri Sep 08, 2006 11:02 am

They got it on film?

I guess it's only a matter of time after it leaks to net...

The Last Autobot · Post by **The Last Autobot** » Fri Sep 08, 2006 3:23 pm

So at the end, aside from all he did, he ended being a snuff movie star.

Oh well, may he rest in peace.

Shanti418 · Post by **Shanti418** » Fri Sep 08, 2006 4:31 pm

I'm pretty sure that they're going to do whatever it takes to destroy that footage. If it's not on YouTube by now, I doubt it'll ever get there. And there's only one copy of it.

It IS kind of ironic that after playing and looking at death right in the face for so many years, it was the astronomical bad luck chance of getting stung by a stingray directly in the heart that did him in. I guess he had used up all his good luck.

Professor Smooth · Post by **Professor Smooth** » Sat Sep 09, 2006 4:37 am

Steve Irwin has always requested that, should he die documenting these these great beasts, that it be made available. I have very few doubts that this will be shown.