Steve Irwin is dead *crocdile hunter*
Sun Sep 03, 2006 11:50 pm
check the topic on CNN
Mon Sep 04, 2006 12:43 am
yep "beet" me to it, strange but tru, it reality we allllll new it was going to happen someday, my heart goes out to his new born children, sad very sad
Mon Sep 04, 2006 12:54 am
Beat me to it too.
Yes, I agree, we all knew it was going to happen. I'm sure he accepted his fate and made peace with it long ago.
R.I.P.
Yes, I agree, we all knew it was going to happen. I'm sure he accepted his fate and made peace with it long ago.
R.I.P.
Mon Sep 04, 2006 1:16 am
Damn that blows.
Mon Sep 04, 2006 3:02 am
R.I.P 
Mon Sep 04, 2006 3:10 am
That guy was awesome, at least he died doing what he loves.
R.I.P
R.I.P
Mon Sep 04, 2006 3:15 am
R.I.P. The guy was a legend!
Mon Sep 04, 2006 7:51 am
How the hell did that happen? I could be wrong, but I think sting rays are pretty docile.
Mon Sep 04, 2006 7:53 am
wow, this is really sad.
Mon Sep 04, 2006 8:15 am
Sting rays are usually no danger. He must have done something weird again for show-off, in the lines of "Now I'll wake this crocodile up by poking him in the eyes, then I'll wack him a few times with this stick, then I'll put me head in his mouth and see how he reacts".
Mon Sep 04, 2006 8:42 am
even bothering it to the point of getting it to sting you won't usually kill a person, in fact only two people have died in Australia from stingrays in the last 100 years or so.
They were filming in very shallow water, if I were a betting man I'd say he swam above the thing, it's stinger came up, and he basically impaled himself on it. Not much different than if he was swimming in shallows with a sharp stick, and just drove it through his ribcage.
I'm no expert, but I can't imagine that in open water, one these things could drive it sting through a persons rib cage all the way to the heart.
They were filming in very shallow water, if I were a betting man I'd say he swam above the thing, it's stinger came up, and he basically impaled himself on it. Not much different than if he was swimming in shallows with a sharp stick, and just drove it through his ribcage.
I'm no expert, but I can't imagine that in open water, one these things could drive it sting through a persons rib cage all the way to the heart.
Mon Sep 04, 2006 9:23 am
Originally posted by cavalierlwt
even bothering it to the point of getting it to sting you won't usually kill a person, in fact only two people have died in Australia from stingrays in the last 100 years or so.
They were filming in very shallow water, if I were a betting man I'd say he swam above the thing, it's stinger came up, and he basically impaled himself on it. Not much different than if he was swimming in shallows with a sharp stick, and just drove it through his ribcage.
I'm no expert, but I can't imagine that in open water, one these things could drive it sting through a persons rib cage all the way to the heart.
http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,20349993-5001021,00.html
Apparently he was swimming above it when the ray just stoped, turned around, and stuck a barb through his heart like a bayonet, just a freak death really.
but still I loved Steve Iriwn and used to watch his show all the time on animal planet when I was a little younger. I sort knew he would be killed someday, but I always thought it would be from a pissed off crocodile or a snake, not a freak'n Stingray! RIP Steve Irwin
Mon Sep 04, 2006 9:39 am
Here's a picture of a stingray barb from the type of stingray that killed Steve
Having something like that pierce your heart I can see why he died so quickly.
Having something like that pierce your heart I can see why he died so quickly.