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Post by $heriff Tom on Sept 4, 2006 1:10:28 GMT -5
Yeah, I know this is yet another thread moving over from the other board, but what board does not have one of these? Our first inductee, as it were, is Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin. A favorite in death pools for his swashbuckling antics, he was killed by a member of the wild. Imagine that! Stingray barb to the heart. Ouch. May he rest in peace. Only 44, with a beautiful family, and money up the kazoo.
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Post by BigAl115 on Sept 4, 2006 5:28:24 GMT -5
Wow thats nuts ...he was filming a segment for his 8 year old daughters tv show...wonder if it will make the program...
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Post by MSBNYY on Sept 4, 2006 7:50:01 GMT -5
What a dick. I wonder if they caught it on film. I also wonder what his last thought was.
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Post by BigAl115 on Sept 4, 2006 7:59:30 GMT -5
It should have been ...they were filming for the show and it was him and a camera man....Im sure his last thought was most definitely "Crikey"
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Post by Jason Giambi on Sept 4, 2006 8:29:44 GMT -5
RIP Steve Irwin
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Post by $heriff Tom on Sept 4, 2006 9:19:41 GMT -5
Maybe the cameraman killed him, and the stingray was the murder weapon.
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Post by cactusjames on Sept 4, 2006 9:31:02 GMT -5
It wold have been better if he got eaten by a crocodile. He got stung by a stingray in the chest. What a wuss.I know the thing was poisionous but there are worse things in the ocean instead of stingrays.
I also just saw a clip of him feeding a croc holding his infant child. If this asshole gets killed by a freaking stingray, that kid his lucky to be alive because his dad was a fucking moron.
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Post by Ms. Jericho on Sept 4, 2006 12:20:07 GMT -5
The article I read on Yahoo this morning says that his three year old son (which is the baby he was holding when he was feeding the crocodile) is named Bob. Who calls a three year old Bob??
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Post by Ms. Jericho on Sept 4, 2006 12:21:29 GMT -5
What's funny is the show he was taping was called "The Ocean's Dealiest." Or something similar.
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Post by BigAl115 on Sept 4, 2006 12:56:51 GMT -5
actually whats funny is that for some reason or another ..they scrapped the shooting for the Oceans Deadliest and choose to shoot some foootage for his 8 year old daughters show and film some of the "smaller" sea creatures....
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Post by MSBNYY on Sept 4, 2006 19:49:36 GMT -5
I'm sure the entire family has a broken HEART.
I think they should make him into a belt.
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Post by $heriff Tom on Sept 4, 2006 20:44:23 GMT -5
Al, where did you get that tidbit? We are not finding that anywhere else. I think you are being forcefed some information of the skewed variety.
You know what is funniest? His already lifeless body was then taken to the nearest port, Cairns. The definition of "Cairns" is "A mound of stones erected as a memorial or marker." In other words, a grave.
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Post by MSBNYY on Sept 4, 2006 21:28:35 GMT -5
We're all a bit STUNG by the news.
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Post by $heriff Tom on Sept 4, 2006 21:43:14 GMT -5
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Post by stewbagel on Sept 4, 2006 23:41:29 GMT -5
KROIKE! sp?
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Post by BigAl115 on Sept 5, 2006 2:33:15 GMT -5
A few places It took me 2 seconds to find it....here is the details
"Shortly after 11:00 a.m. local time (01:00 UTC) on 4 September 2006, Irwin was fatally pierced in the chest by a short-tail stingray barb while diving in Batt Reef (part of the Great Barrier Reef), off the coast of Port Douglas in Queensland, Australia. Irwin was in the area filming his own documentary, to be called The Ocean's Deadliest, but weather had stalled filming. Irwin decided to take the opportunity to film some shallow water shots for a segment in the television program his daughter Bindi was hosting, when, according to his friend and colleague John Stainton, he swam too close to one of the animals. "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 the Croc One.
The events were caught on camera, and the footage was handed to the Queensland Police.[28] After reviewing the footage of the incident and speaking to the cameraman who recorded it, marine documentary filmmaker and former spearfisherman Ben Cropp speculated that the stingray "felt threatened because Steve was alongside and there was the cameraman ahead." In such a case, the stingray responds by automatically flexing the serrated barb on its tail up to a maximum of 25 cm (10 in) of length. Cropp said Irwin had accidentally boxed the animal in. "It stopped and twisted and threw up its tail with the spike, and it caught him in the chest. It's a defensive thing. It's like being stabbed with a dirty dagger." The stinging of Irwin by the bull ray was "a one-in-a-million thing," Cropp told Time magazine. "I have swum with many rays, and I have only had one do that to me."[29] Immediately after the attack, Irwin was shown on tape pulling the barb out, before losing consciousness. This was confirmed by his colleague John Stainton. [30] It is thought, in the absence of a coroner's report, that either the toxins of the barb caused Irwin to die of an apparent cardiac arrest[31] or that he died quickly as a result of a punctured aorta.
Crewmembers aboard his boat called the emergency services in the nearest city of Cairns and administered CPR as they rushed the boat to nearby Lowe Isle to meet a rescue helicopter. Medical staff pronounced Irwin dead when they arrived a short time later.[27]
Irwin's body was flown to a morgue in Cairns. His wife was on a walking tour in Cradle Mountain-Lake St Clair National Park in Tasmania at the time, and returned via a private plane from Devonport to the Sunshine Coast with their two children.
This was only the third known fatality in Australian history from a stingray attack, and the first since 1945.[33] As of 1996, only seventeen worldwide fatalities had been recorded,[34] and it is believed to be the only fatal attack ever captured on film."
"Steve decided to shoot a couple of segments for a new TV show that he's doing with his daughter Bindi and, with the cameramen, went out on to the reef at Batt Reef to do a little segment on stingrays. He came over the top of the stingray... and the stingray's barb went up and went into his chest and put a hole into his heart."
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Post by MSBNYY on Sept 5, 2006 5:56:34 GMT -5
It's only a matter of time before this appears on YouTube. I wonder if the Devil Rays are going to lower the flags.
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Post by joetee316 on Sept 5, 2006 6:47:33 GMT -5
R.I.P. to a righteous dude. I feel bad for his family. A great dude that looked like he was having so much fun doing what he was doing. His enthusiasm was worth watching. Not a dull moment. This photo was taken circa 2003. Steve and I had just gotten back from a week long trip from New Zealand. We were studying the cross pollenization between scorpions and the killer blue whale. We love you Steve!!!!!
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Post by BigAl115 on Sept 5, 2006 6:54:16 GMT -5
I doubt this video will ever get leaked....
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Post by $heriff Tom on Sept 5, 2006 7:25:18 GMT -5
There is some pressure on the widow to release it. Its really up to her. Why she would even consider it would be beyond me. Its best to just let this one go. Sorry, but no one needs to see this. Watching a little of "Confessions of the Crocodile Hunter" on Animal Planet last night before bad, thats when it settles in that a good human being lost his life here.
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Post by MSBNYY on Sept 5, 2006 7:42:39 GMT -5
I think he looked like John Denver.
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Post by gijane on Sept 5, 2006 7:45:20 GMT -5
crikey
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Post by BigAl115 on Sept 5, 2006 8:22:13 GMT -5
I think it will be leaked now....
" Video footage "shows that Steve came over the top of the ray, and the tail went up and spiked him [in the chest], and he pulled it out, and the next minute he's gone. That was it. The cameraman had to shut down," said his grieving friend and manager, John Stainton, whose was on Irwin's boat, Croc One, at the time.
Stainton called the footage the worst thing he had ever seen.
"It's shocking," he said. "It's very hard to watch because you're watching somebody die, and it's terrible."
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Post by gijane on Sept 5, 2006 8:41:27 GMT -5
You know it will eventually show up on You Tube.
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Post by Chris on Sept 5, 2006 9:55:25 GMT -5
Anyone ever see the Bum Hunters spoof on Irwin?
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Post by grover on Sept 5, 2006 13:33:00 GMT -5
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Post by BigAl115 on Sept 5, 2006 13:40:09 GMT -5
them wacky asians
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Post by MSBNYY on Sept 12, 2006 13:17:12 GMT -5
articles.news.aol.com/news/_a/backlash-against-stingrays-since-irwins/20060912064609990001?ncid=NWS00010000000001 Not sure if this link will work, but it looks like Tom's dire prediction of war has come true. The murder of Steve Irwin has not gone unanswered by humanity. Ten stingrays are now dead. Sure, the stingrays hit us hard. But whenever liberty is threatened, humanity will rise to the occasion and make sure that the horrors perpetrated by the stingrays will not go unavenged. I don't know how long this war will last, and I fear what the stingrays will do next, but I am confident that in the end, we will prevail.
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Post by $heriff Tom on Sept 12, 2006 13:24:04 GMT -5
Link doesn't work, but I have heard this tale. I hope someone gets killed trying to kill a stingray.
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Post by MSBNYY on Sept 12, 2006 13:30:09 GMT -5
Steve Irwin was murdered. I can't blame people for seeking justice against the stingray regime.
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