BRISBANE, Australia -- Steve Irwin, the hugely popular Australian television personality and environmentalist known as the "Crocodile Hunter," was killed Monday by a stingray during a diving expedition. He was 44.Source: The Washington Post
Oddly, he will be most remembered for dangling his month old child in front of a 13-foot crocodile. He cheated fate so many times, and seemingly provoked the wild animals on his shows. It's a wonder he lived as long as he did. Sad statement I know, but it is true.
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I don't think it's true. A lot of the stuff he does looks - uhm, looked insane, but it's a TV show. They probably knew what they were doing and had pretty good security. And in the end, it's not a snake or a croc that got him. It's was a stingray. I guess they didn't expect too much danger and relaxed security a bit.
Bloody shame, too. For his little children, for nature and for us. No more funny animal shows where he sticks his thumb up crocs' ass (or was that Southpark?)
Posted by LKM | September 4, 2006 4:52 PM
Posted on September 4, 2006 16:52