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Steve Irwin killed by stingray
Posted: 04 Sep 2006, 14:31
by manchild
Posted: 04 Sep 2006, 15:32
by joseff
I was going to post this earlier but couldn't find the words... first class human being, brimming with enthusiasm and lived every minute of his life.
It's hard to swallow, I guess we all thought he was immortal. RIP Steve, the world's a poorer place without you.
Posted: 04 Sep 2006, 15:37
by Spencifer_Murphy
I woke up this morning and saw it on the news. Tragic, and so ironic considering stingray's arent usually though of as THAT aggressive. A cheerful man with bucket loads of enthusiasm, and he will be missed.
Posted: 04 Sep 2006, 16:03
by Jason
Here, this link tell you everything: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Irwin
Posted: 04 Sep 2006, 16:41
by Principessa
I had no idea that these animals are capable of this.
Posted: 04 Sep 2006, 19:36
by Sawtooth-spike
Steve was om the same scale as chuck norris. I found out this morning, he will be missed. i think mark webber should have a croc on his car to mark this loss
Posted: 04 Sep 2006, 19:55
by Spencifer_Murphy
tbh i wouldn't be suprised if he did run with some sort of homage to Steve, even if its just a black armband or something. (Then again that big white space on the williams' sidepod is free for a croc!)
Posted: 04 Sep 2006, 20:12
by wazojugs
Its a same he had died as he was a very cheerful bloke.
However stingrays are frightened very easily and will swim away at the first sign of danger, they have to be very pissed off before they use there barbed stinger which is coated in venom. If it had struck him anyhwere else he would have survived.
He must have pushed his luck to far.
Posted: 04 Sep 2006, 20:20
by NickT
You guys said it all. Thanks Steve for sharing so much of your wonderful world with so many. Mother Nature has certainly lost one of her greatest allies.
Posted: 04 Sep 2006, 23:22
by Ciro Pabón
Really sad news. He could have touched it. Really strange accident, as stingrays barbs have venom, but (at least the ones I know) the venom doesn't kill you: it makes the healing of the wound a long affair, but that's it.
Posted: 04 Sep 2006, 23:28
by NickT
Just to clarify, it wasn't the venom that killed him, unfortunately the 20cm barb that stabbed him hit him in the heart.
Posted: 05 Sep 2006, 04:31
by jgredline
It just goes to show you.
It is appointed unto man once to die, then the judgment.
When its your time its your time
Posted: 05 Sep 2006, 04:45
by saam
A fair dinkum true blue aussie ICON
We will miss you...
Posted: 05 Sep 2006, 07:15
by ketanpaul
One fo the very few people who live life to the fullest knowing they are doing what they love..................
RIP Steve
Posted: 05 Sep 2006, 07:18
by Jason
Wait a minute, I think its the stingray's barb hit his heart and then he was killed instantly.
