The Crocodile Hunter killed by Stingray

[Dylflon]

http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/09/04/australia.irwin/index.html

[Perfect Stu]

At least he's able to say something that most never can...that he truly lived. Doing what he loves most, takings risks, and ultimately succeeding in pretty much anything he did.

RIP

[Spasmolytic]

Indeed, and he died doing what he loved.

Still sad, though, as he had many years of goals ahead of him. Well, that and the fact that he had a wife and two children.

[Neo]

I'm amazed he's lasted this long.

[Acebot44]

An R.I.P to one of the individuals and television personalities that I grew up watching.

At one point in my life, Animal Planet and Discovery Channel was all I watched, so Mr. Irwin will always have a place in my heart :(

[GameMaster]

To a man, whose movie will always be better than Snakes on a Plane.

[Typhoid]

This completely sucks.
I heard last night, and it actually ruined the rest of my night.
:(

[Bond]

:(

[Dyne]

Sigh.

I wonder if the new video will be finished and shown, though. It takes more than one person and a lot of resources to make a movie.

[bobcat]

Yeh terrible news. Only 3 people in the world have died from a stingray. Can you believe that?

It actually punctured his heart, and died. I feel for the family. He was a very genuine guy

[KillerGremlin]

crickey

i'm sure he would have wanted to go out that way

[Swan]

RIP


At least he went doing what he loved to do

[Fox 6]

Very strange occurance. I feel for his family.


RIP.

[GameMaster]

Sigh.

I wonder if the new video will be finished and shown, though. It takes more than one person and a lot of resources to make a movie.

I would elect to abandon the project. It all seems so meaningless when a life is lost.

[Typhoid]

As someone said on another forum, that seemed to make sense to me:


Originally posted by: Chris-Guy
I LIKE HOW PEOPLE ARE PRETENDING TO CARE THAT HE DIED.



IT'S GOING TO BE A BIG POP CULTURE THING, EVERBODY ACTING ALL SAD AND ****.

JUST GO SEE SNAKES ON A PLANE, TALK ABOUT CHUCK NORRIS, AND SHUT YOUR ****ING FICKLE FACE.

[Perfect Stu]

Sounds like "Chris-Guy" is a real @sshole. Well, good for him. He won't 'pretend to care'. Yep, that'll show 'em. I thank him kindly for his valuable insight.

[Typhoid]

Sounds like "Chris-Guy" is a real @sshole. Well, good for him. He won't 'pretend to care'. Yep, that'll show 'em. I thank him kindly for his valuable insight.


Well, to be fair to him that other forum has about 300 members, and there were about 20 threads on "Omg, the crocodile guy is dead".

I mean, as much as it sucks, none of us should 'care', in the meaning of the word. We didnt know him. He never personally changed one of us. And if he did, that's awkward and strange, but still. Celebrity doesnt make you connect to people.

While it still sucks for people who knew him, and his family, and the people who loved his show and stuff, the fact a bunch of people who dont know him are so seemingly and actually crushed sort of waters down the situation, in my mind.

[Spasmolytic]

Wait, didn't you post a sad smilie earlier saying that the event single-handedly ruined your night?

:confused:

It's no different than a tragic movie or book. We all feel we knew his story as that of a likeable, ambitious family man, and were therefore moved by its tragic end.

[Typhoid]

Wait, didn't you post a sad smilie earlier saying that the event single-handedly ruined your night?

Internet sarcasm.
I forgot it doesnt portray well.

[Dylflon]

The reason we feel sad when celebrties die is because even though we don't know them, they have made an impact in our own personal universe.

Sure a million people in Africa die a day but it can't hit home because to us they are as good as non-existant because they've never made any form of entrance into our own lives. If we met or even saw an interview featuring a bunch of Rwandans and then found out they all died, this would mean something to us because they have left a foot print in our indivudual universes.

Even if it's not a personal connection, people on TV still make a connection with our lives, allowing us to glimpse into their world and see what they are all about.

They make an impact, even if it's a small one.

That's why it's okay to be sad when they die.

[Happydude]

i read about this about a minute after it was posted in the newspaper online.

very sad news...the guy was great.

[Crash]

the guy was the man, the news sucks anyway you cut it. No one wanted that to happen. He was a very likable guy, and it is sad.

[Professor S]

I've never been a big fan of Irwin, but thinking about how he died, it reminded me of how he lived. This guys did amazing things and saw amazing places. He lived a great life and for him to die while doing what he loved is kind of fitting and will only solidify his legend (at least in animal-dude circles). At least it was quick and he got more out his short life than most of us ever will from our long ones.

[thatmariolover]

I guess I just find it odd how bothered I am by his death. I mean, there have been a lot of other people that have died that I know of, but none of them really bothered me. I never really watched him on TV very often (two or three times ever), and yet his death is just disturbing to me. A freak accident; he could have been lacerated or stabbed anywhere else on his body (legs are most common for Stingray attacks), but he was stabbed through the heart. And the fact that he was videotaped by collegues while it happened - that just makes it even more exceptionally disturbing to me.

At any rate, not a huge impact on my life or anything; but I still feel inexplicably bothered by how he died.

[Neo]

The debate now is whether they're going to air the footage. Supposedly Steve told them that even if things turned out badly that he wanted people to see it.

It'll probably end up on youtube before TV.

[GameMaster]

He removed the barb and then died. I'm not going to lie, I want to see the footage.

[Dyne]

I knew it would get released, officially or not.

[Crash]

I dont think it will be released. His best friend who was there swore on it.

But you never know, the cops might leak it for $$

[Bube]

He removed the barb and then died. I'm not going to lie, I want to see the footage.
I didn't know that.. If he hadn't removed it, he might not have died..

Sad, really..

[Jason1]

I wouldnt mind seeing the footage, only because you KNOW he was screwing around with that Stingray. Probably saying something along the lines of "crickey, she really hates when I do this!"

he then continues to do said thing to stingray, and stingray kills him.

[Typhoid]

I wouldnt mind seeing the footage, only because you KNOW he was screwing around with that Stingray. Probably saying something along the lines of "crickey, she really hates when I do this!"

he then continues to do said thing to stingray, and stingray kills him.

Actually it's more likely that he was swimming near the bottom, and since most stingrays stay hidden under the sand, he couldnt have seen it.

And when they feel threatened, they just flick their tails up.

[Spasmolytic]

Bah, we've been gifted with the age of information... I mean, just look at Wikipedia; yet many of you fail to use 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."
Cropp said Irwin had accidentally boxed in the animal.

As of 1996, only seventeen worldwide fatalities had been recorded due to stingrays, and the attack on Irwin is believed to be the only fatality from a stingray ever captured on film.