It's one of the most random things I've ever heard of.
And of all things, it's a stingray, and not a croc.
I would've prefered Lleyton Hewitt to go, if a well known aussie had to.
Yeah, the "Croc Hunter" dying, really isn't like any other celebrity death. This one leaves a particular bad taste in my mouth. I hate to see a guy with such charisma, guts, and drama go not go out with a bang.
He was so young too... This is in fact the worst thing ever. :(
This is horrible news. A man who stared death in the face so many times should have lived forever. I'm sorry to see that it finally caught up with him.
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This is horrible news. A man who stared death in the face so many times should have lived forever. I'm sorry to see that it finally caught up with him.
The thing is, a stingray shouldn't EVER be called "death in the face"...
This is horrible news. A man who stared death in the face so many times should have lived forever. I'm sorry to see that it finally caught up with him.
The thing is, a stingray shouldn't EVER be called "death in the face"...
Death in the chest applies here though. Steve, you will be missed!
The thing is, a stingray shouldn't EVER be called "death in the face"...
I consider deep sea diving pretty dangerous, but you're right, I'm pretty sure this was a freak accident. Steve knew where animals' limits were, and wouldn't have provoked the stingray in any way. It was probably curious or just passing by, and in an instant, a barb entered Steve's chest. It comes down to, Steve had a dangerous line of work and, while doing something dangerous (shooting a documentary under water), something unexpected happened.
atro city wrote:
The guy was 44 years old, and that's pretty old for a death-defying croc-wrangler.
I don't consider Steve Irwin a daredevil. He wasn't jumping motorcycles over canyons. He was getting really close to dangerous animals, but he knew how far he could go. For my money, 44 was too young. He revolutionized his genre. In my day, a nature program was Lorne Green's New Wilderness or Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom: shows where someone would set up a zoom camera a half kilometre away. Steve interacted with nature and talked to the camera. He made it real, and drew the audience in. I can't imagine the current generation watching traditional nature programs. The world owes him a debt of thanks for making nature and conservation interesting to modern viewers. This was definitely too soon.
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I always thought the worst thing ever would be to wake up and find out that my penis was removed! (well, I took that from an old movie, but it sure would be a terrible thing)
"Genuine self-esteem, however, consists not of causeless feelings, but of certain knowledge about yourself.
It rests on the conviction that you — by your choices, effort and actions — have made yourself into the
kind of person able to deal with reality. It is the conviction — based on the evidence of your own volitional
functioning — that you are fundamentally able to succeed in life and, therefore, are deserving of that success."
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Bisqwit wrote:
I always thought the worst thing ever would be to wake up and find out that my penis was removed! (well, I took that from an old movie, but it sure would be a terrible thing)
It happened in Houston.
Anyway... I assume the Croc Hunder died pretty fast since he got a hole directly in his heart.
Steve Irwin lived and died doing what he loved. Even as my eyes tear at the news of his death, I pray that we may all have (and take!) the chance to do the same.
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DK64_MASTER wrote:
A stingray? A stingray? Man, what irony. Poor guy. RIP "Croc Hunter" :(
Is it really ironic? I've been wondering about this all day. Personally, I think his death at the hand of an animal is totally unironic, even if the animal in question rarely kills people. Given that his fame revolved around his close association with dangerous animals, a truly ironic death would have involved a mugger or something.
Don't mistake this for Irwin-hating, I enjoyed his work and I'll miss him. But if he had been shot and killed, (especially by a crazed PETA operative) that would be irony!
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Where Steve Irwin died, his child shall live. Considering Steve probably wasn't dangled in front of a crocodile at the ripe old age of 1, he is in no way as extreme as his son was.
In the future, Irwin's son will get revenge on the stingray community by grafting a stinging tail to his own body and then visciously stabbing every sort of ray in the chest.
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I honestly loved that man and his work. You rarely see such genuine interest, love, dedication, enthusiast and happiness all together from a person. Rest In Peace :(
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Arc wrote:
I enjoyed this movie in which hands firmly gripping a shaft lead to balls deep in multiple holes.
natt wrote:
I don't want to get involved in this discussion, but as a point of fact C# is literally the first goddamn thing on that fucking page you linked did you even fucking read it
Cooljay wrote:
Mayor Haggar and Cody are such nice people for the community. Metro City's hospitals reached an all time new record of incoming patients due to their great efforts :P
I honestly loved that man and his work. You rarely see such genuine interest, love, dedication, enthusiast and happiness all together from a person. Rest In Peace :(
agreed, i remember watching his show on Animal Planet and loving every minute. This hurts me greatly and i will miss him.
I can only recall a few celebrity deaths that had any effect on me. I remember turning on the news in 1997 and seeing that Princess Diana had been critically injured in a car accident, and my mother and I watched the coverage until the announcement of her death. I remember thinking that it would have a profound impact on the world, and saying to myself that I now lived in a world without Princess Diana, but I had no great love for the British monarchy, or for her. It was shock rather than sadness.
I recall being disappointed to learn that Caroll O'Connor was dead. Besides teaching the world about prejudice and social change through his role as Archie Bunker, the thing I respected most about him was that he made a commercial where he talked about his son's suicide. I know that it filled him with pain until the day he died, and I admired his courage to take his anti-drug message public in such a personal way. I was certainly disappointed, but his death wasn't unexpected at his age, so I don't recall any deep sadness following the news.
I think I was sad when Ernie Coombs died. He had a long-running children's show called Mr. Dressup in Canada, along the lines of Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood or Captain Kangeroo. He was one of my favorite people as a child.
The worst, up until now, was the passing of Charles M. Schulz. There can't be a man, woman or child in the western world who wasn't raised on Peanuts. The man devoted five decades of his life to making people happy, and I think that's special. He could have retired twenty years ago, but continued to write a comic strip each and every day until he no longer could. It's a rare gift.
The thing I've notice about the death of Steve Irwin is that I don't feel any better yet. I never met him, but I feel as bad as I did yesterday. It just doesn't feel right that a man with such passion for saving the world and it's natural wonders should be dead at 44. The living things on this planet need people like him to serve as their advocate. In a world where the rising price of gasoline draws outrage and demands for government intervention rather than any thought of conservation, our priorities are clear. We don't care about having natural habitat or clean water or breathable air if it's going to cost us anything. If saving the world is inconvenient, then it isn't worth saving. Why aren't there more men like Steve Irwin to remind us how precious nature is; how wonderous life is? Maybe in a world with 6 billion people, we've lost respect for life. The fact that life exists at all is miraculous, and every animal is awe-inspiring in its own way. Steve was passionate about creatures I would never have thought of as beautiful. He saw the beauty in all living things, and reminded me that people who share his enthusiasm are the only hope for thousands of species that could be lost before the century is over. It seems unjust for nature's champion to have been struck down by one of its creatures. In the process of filming a children's program to pass his message of the value of life to a new generation, his life was ended by one of the creatures he fought so hard to preserve. Bad things happen to good people, and his death is a reminder of how fragile all livings things are. If an invincible man can be killed by a stingray, this is an affirmation of how nature's mightiest creatures can be endangered. Not even lions and elephants and whales are safe from the injustice that man commits against nature every single day. We'll open our eyes one day and the tiger will be gone, just as I opened my eyes one day and the Crocodile Hunter was gone. Life is like that. It doesn't get any easier to live with that knowledge, does it?
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As much as I liked Steve Irwin, it's not like nature will just be forgotten and undocumented. Sure, the style is totally not the same, but don't forget David Attenborough is alive. For what his work lacks in IN YOUR FACEness, it makes up for in beauty.
I wish I had a dollar for every time I've seen a blog post, seen a forum post, gotten an email, seen a news item on a totally unrelated website, seen a Newgrounds submission etc. about Steve Irwin's death...
I wouldn't quite be a millionaire yet, but I'd be close.
For sure, there will be others. Steve was just a very a likeable fellow, and people feel bad about the way he died. The Crocodile Hunter was a fun show, and I don't know if I'll ever enjoy a nature show that much again.
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