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captainamerica
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this guy was a champ. rest in peace.
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allblacksfreak
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:wah: :wah: As a great environmentalist... I really did shed a tear when I heard this happens... man... how can this happens?! whatever happened, he's definitely MY HERO!!!!
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loratadine
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i loved this guy, his passion for wildlife was beautiful, but he needed to realise tht as beautiful as these creatures are they are dangerous.
its a sad day he was a mans man with a heart of gold.
its a sad day he was a mans man with a heart of gold.
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sanzar
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To be fair though, the way he knowingly pushed his luck with so many deadly species of all animals, it was bound to happen eventually. Poor bugger.
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I know what you mean, and I'd always thought there was a fair chance he'd meet his fate doing what he loved, but at the same time deep down I never really thought it could happen to a guy like him... The news really knocked the wind out of me to be honest, and watching his interview on 'Enough Rope' with Denton last night, hearing him talk about how much he loved his wife and kids, was so incredibly sad.
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Dumbo
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One of a kind, 100% original.
RIP.
RIP.
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woosaah
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http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3787373a12,00.html
thats definatly some footage i dont want to see
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ak47
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Well i wanna see it.........i've been done by these buggers.......on the foot though..........i wanna see how it managed to get him in the heart......reading doesnt do it justice - this ray must have had issues, coz its very unlike them to do anything unless touched
This footage airing is subject to family approval - i know Steve himself would want it aired.........he has the policy with his camera crew no matter what is happening, the cameras always stay on and film...no matter what.....i saw him get bit by a fierce (inland taipan) years ago and they kept that rolling........he needed extreme urgent attention....first aid always lurking - when on land, not on water.
I reckon the footage will air for educational reasons, what not to do around a sting ray, and as per usual.......the Animal Planet/Nat Geo "When animals attack" series.
It will go down as 1 in a billion media.
A guy almost as famous as Santa/Jordan/Tiger Woods/Madonna - his death filmed whilst on set working........its deadset gotto........i just hope it doesnt come at a price......Steve wouldnt want that.....this should be free for all to see and learn, and even though harsh to witness a death of a hero......its what he would want to happen
This footage airing is subject to family approval - i know Steve himself would want it aired.........he has the policy with his camera crew no matter what is happening, the cameras always stay on and film...no matter what.....i saw him get bit by a fierce (inland taipan) years ago and they kept that rolling........he needed extreme urgent attention....first aid always lurking - when on land, not on water.
I reckon the footage will air for educational reasons, what not to do around a sting ray, and as per usual.......the Animal Planet/Nat Geo "When animals attack" series.
It will go down as 1 in a billion media.
A guy almost as famous as Santa/Jordan/Tiger Woods/Madonna - his death filmed whilst on set working........its deadset gotto........i just hope it doesnt come at a price......Steve wouldnt want that.....this should be free for all to see and learn, and even though harsh to witness a death of a hero......its what he would want to happen
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woosaah
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if it does come at a price, it would have to go to wild life research or something anyway
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ak47
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actually good idea
coz these wildlife charities will take a hit in his absence
make CNN/BBC or whoever pay thru the bloody roof
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Kimmy_The_Kiwi
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R.I.P STEVE
It doesnt really seem like he is dead..it just seems like everyone is talking about him being dead..its kinda sinking in for me now! :cryy:
He was a deadset legend. I really did actually enjoy watching him, although i would take the ****, he was a champ!!
I will miss watching him, there will never be any new episodes again! :wah: :wah:
And poor Terri, Bob, Bindi and the rest of his family!! :cryy:
Wonder if they would show the footage, I doubt it, I wouldnt want to see it anyway!
Lol..Josh the annoying fag..he was going around school all day saying "crikey"..i kept telling him to shut his mouth...
It doesnt really seem like he is dead..it just seems like everyone is talking about him being dead..its kinda sinking in for me now! :cryy:
He was a deadset legend. I really did actually enjoy watching him, although i would take the ****, he was a champ!!
I will miss watching him, there will never be any new episodes again! :wah: :wah:
And poor Terri, Bob, Bindi and the rest of his family!! :cryy:
OMG reading that, its sooo sad!!
Wonder if they would show the footage, I doubt it, I wouldnt want to see it anyway!
Lol..Josh the annoying fag..he was going around school all day saying "crikey"..i kept telling him to shut his mouth...
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Wally
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Atleast we can take some slight happiness in thinking that right now Steve is wrestling some rabid, radioactive, mile high crocodile in heaven. He was a great bloke and used his fame and money to help the environment in whatever way he could. He bought acres and acres of bushland for no particular reason other than to keep the animals in it safe.
Hopefully the footage of his death won't be circulating YouTube any time soon. Perhaps one day a documentary of his life, with the footage, can be produced for all to see. He lived doing what he loved, and in the end he paid for it with his life.
Hopefully the footage of his death won't be circulating YouTube any time soon. Perhaps one day a documentary of his life, with the footage, can be produced for all to see. He lived doing what he loved, and in the end he paid for it with his life.
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St Helens RLFC
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Absolutely gutted. My favourite "celebrity" by a million miles. Of all the things to kill him though, it's a poxy stingray! This guy has wrestled crocodiles and ran up a tree to escape a Komodo dragon. How on EARTH has a bloody fish killed him???
Total and utter tragedy.
Total and utter tragedy.
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getofmeland
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Bloody Ebay, They will sell anything!!!
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An Tarbh
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That's sick, that's them added to my banned list then.
Irwin was a legend, infectious enthusiasm and passion, a massive loss.
Irwin was a legend, infectious enthusiasm and passion, a massive loss.
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allblacksfreak
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This ray is actually a f***ing alien!!! who plans to kill all the f***ing animals on earth! and Steve found out about it but the aliens got to him first! f***ING ALIENS!!!!!!!
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Bullitt
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Not funny.
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Kimmy_The_Kiwi
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Was watching a episode of Larry King Live on him just before. I'm still so gutted about this, he is like the best hunter ever..i reakon the animals must have respected him (bar the stingray)..cos i mean the amount of times he coulda have been killed..and he only came away with scars. DAMN STINGRAYS!!
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MonoTurd
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the jokes have already begun.
i pity you, society
i pity you, society
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Caledfwlch
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news reports that steve was video-ed pulling the barb out of his chest after being stung
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Wally
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'That sort of self-delusion is what it takes to be a real Aussie larrikin'
Germaine Greer
Tuesday September 5, 2006
The Guardian
The world mourns. World-famous wildlife warrior Steve Irwin has died a hero, doing the thing he loved, filming a sequence for a new TV series. He was supposed to have been making a new documentary to have been called Ocean's Deadliest, but, when filming was held up by bad weather, he decided to "go off and shoot a few segments" for his eight-year-old daughter's upcoming TV series, "just stuff on the reef and little animals". His manager John Stainton "just said fine, anything that would keep him moving and keep his adrenaline going". Evidently it's Stainton's job to keep Irwin pumped larger than life, shouting "Crikey!" and punching the air.
Irwin was the real Crocodile Dundee, a great Australian, an ambassador for wildlife, a global phenomenon, a superhuman generator of merchandise, books, interactive video-games and action figures. The only creatures he couldn't dominate were parrots. A parrot once did its best to rip his nose off his face. Parrots are a lot smarter than crocodiles.
What seems to have happened on Batt Reef is that Irwin and a cameraman went off in a little dinghy to see what they could find. What they found were stingrays. You can just imagine Irwin yelling: "Just look at these beauties! Crikey! With those barbs a stingray can kill a horse!" (Yes, Steve, but a stingray doesn't want to kill a horse. It eats crustaceans, for God's sake.) All Australian children know about stingrays. We are now being told that only three people have ever been killed by Australian stingrays. One of them must have been the chap who bought it 60 years ago in Brighton Baths where my school used to go on swimming days. Port Philip Bay was famous for stingrays, which are fine as long as you can see them, but they do what most Dasyatidae do, which is bury themselves in the sand or mud with only their eyes sticking out. What you don't want to do with a stingray is stand on it. The lashing response of the tail is automatic; the barb is coated with a bacterial slime as deadly as rotten oyster toxin.
As a Melbourne boy, Irwin should have had a healthy respect for stingrays, which are actually commoner, and bigger, in southern waters than they are near Port Douglas, where he was killed. The film-makers maintain that the ray that took Irwin out was a "bull ray", or Dasyatis brevicaudata, but this is not usually found as far north as Port Douglas. Marine biologist Dr Meredith Peach has been quoted as saying, "It's really quite unusual for divers to be stung unless they are grappling with the animal and, knowing Steve Irwin, perhaps that may have been the case." Not much sympathy there then.
The only time Irwin ever seemed less than entirely lovable to his fans (as distinct from zoologists) was when he went into the Australia Zoo crocodile enclosure with his month-old baby son in one hand and a dead chicken in the other. For a second you didn't know which one he meant to feed to the crocodile. If the crocodile had been less depressed it might have made the decision for him. As the catatonic beast obediently downed its tiny snack, Irwin walked his baby on the grass, not something that paediatricians recommend for rubbery baby legs even when there isn't a stir-crazy carnivore a few feet away. The adoring world was momentarily appalled. They called it child abuse. The whole spectacle was revolting. The crocodile would rather have been anywhere else and the chicken had had a grim life too, but that's entertainment at Australia Zoo.
Irwin's response to the sudden outburst of criticism was bizarre. He believed that he had the crocodile under control. But he could have fallen over, suggested an interviewer. He admitted that was possible, but only if a meteor had hit the earth and caused an earthquake of 6.6 on the Richter scale. That sort of self-delusion is what it takes to be a "real Aussie larrikin".
What Irwin never seemed to understand was that animals need space. The one lesson any conservationist must labour to drive home is that habitat loss is the principal cause of species loss. There was no habitat, no matter how fragile or finely balanced, that Irwin hesitated to barge into, trumpeting his wonder and amazement to the skies. There was not an animal he was not prepared to manhandle. Every creature he brandished at the camera was in distress. Every snake badgered by Irwin was at a huge disadvantage, with only a single possible reaction to its terrifying situation, which was to strike. Easy enough to avoid, if you know what's coming. Even my cat knew that much. Those of us who live with snakes, as I do with no fewer than 12 front-fanged venomous snake species in my bit of Queensland rainforest, know that they will get out of our way if we leave them a choice. Some snakes are described as aggressive, but, if you're a snake, unprovoked aggression doesn't make sense. Snakes on a plane only want to get off. But Irwin was an entertainer, a 21st-century version of a lion-tamer, with crocodiles instead of lions.
In 2004, Irwin was accused of illegally encroaching on the space of penguins, seals and humpback whales in Antarctica, where he was filming a documentary called Ice Breaker. An investigation by the Australian Environmental Department resulted in no action being taken, which is not surprising seeing that John Howard, the prime minister, made sure that Irwin was one of the guests invited to a "gala barbecue" for George Bush a few months before. Howard is now Irwin's chief mourner, which is only fair, seeing that Irwin announced that Howard is the greatest leader the world has ever seen.
The animal world has finally taken its revenge on Irwin, but probably not before a whole generation of kids in shorts seven sizes too small has learned to shout in the ears of animals with hearing 10 times more acute than theirs, determined to become millionaire animal-loving zoo-owners in their turn.
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Heartless *****.
Germaine Greer
Tuesday September 5, 2006
The Guardian
The world mourns. World-famous wildlife warrior Steve Irwin has died a hero, doing the thing he loved, filming a sequence for a new TV series. He was supposed to have been making a new documentary to have been called Ocean's Deadliest, but, when filming was held up by bad weather, he decided to "go off and shoot a few segments" for his eight-year-old daughter's upcoming TV series, "just stuff on the reef and little animals". His manager John Stainton "just said fine, anything that would keep him moving and keep his adrenaline going". Evidently it's Stainton's job to keep Irwin pumped larger than life, shouting "Crikey!" and punching the air.
Irwin was the real Crocodile Dundee, a great Australian, an ambassador for wildlife, a global phenomenon, a superhuman generator of merchandise, books, interactive video-games and action figures. The only creatures he couldn't dominate were parrots. A parrot once did its best to rip his nose off his face. Parrots are a lot smarter than crocodiles.
What seems to have happened on Batt Reef is that Irwin and a cameraman went off in a little dinghy to see what they could find. What they found were stingrays. You can just imagine Irwin yelling: "Just look at these beauties! Crikey! With those barbs a stingray can kill a horse!" (Yes, Steve, but a stingray doesn't want to kill a horse. It eats crustaceans, for God's sake.) All Australian children know about stingrays. We are now being told that only three people have ever been killed by Australian stingrays. One of them must have been the chap who bought it 60 years ago in Brighton Baths where my school used to go on swimming days. Port Philip Bay was famous for stingrays, which are fine as long as you can see them, but they do what most Dasyatidae do, which is bury themselves in the sand or mud with only their eyes sticking out. What you don't want to do with a stingray is stand on it. The lashing response of the tail is automatic; the barb is coated with a bacterial slime as deadly as rotten oyster toxin.
As a Melbourne boy, Irwin should have had a healthy respect for stingrays, which are actually commoner, and bigger, in southern waters than they are near Port Douglas, where he was killed. The film-makers maintain that the ray that took Irwin out was a "bull ray", or Dasyatis brevicaudata, but this is not usually found as far north as Port Douglas. Marine biologist Dr Meredith Peach has been quoted as saying, "It's really quite unusual for divers to be stung unless they are grappling with the animal and, knowing Steve Irwin, perhaps that may have been the case." Not much sympathy there then.
The only time Irwin ever seemed less than entirely lovable to his fans (as distinct from zoologists) was when he went into the Australia Zoo crocodile enclosure with his month-old baby son in one hand and a dead chicken in the other. For a second you didn't know which one he meant to feed to the crocodile. If the crocodile had been less depressed it might have made the decision for him. As the catatonic beast obediently downed its tiny snack, Irwin walked his baby on the grass, not something that paediatricians recommend for rubbery baby legs even when there isn't a stir-crazy carnivore a few feet away. The adoring world was momentarily appalled. They called it child abuse. The whole spectacle was revolting. The crocodile would rather have been anywhere else and the chicken had had a grim life too, but that's entertainment at Australia Zoo.
Irwin's response to the sudden outburst of criticism was bizarre. He believed that he had the crocodile under control. But he could have fallen over, suggested an interviewer. He admitted that was possible, but only if a meteor had hit the earth and caused an earthquake of 6.6 on the Richter scale. That sort of self-delusion is what it takes to be a "real Aussie larrikin".
What Irwin never seemed to understand was that animals need space. The one lesson any conservationist must labour to drive home is that habitat loss is the principal cause of species loss. There was no habitat, no matter how fragile or finely balanced, that Irwin hesitated to barge into, trumpeting his wonder and amazement to the skies. There was not an animal he was not prepared to manhandle. Every creature he brandished at the camera was in distress. Every snake badgered by Irwin was at a huge disadvantage, with only a single possible reaction to its terrifying situation, which was to strike. Easy enough to avoid, if you know what's coming. Even my cat knew that much. Those of us who live with snakes, as I do with no fewer than 12 front-fanged venomous snake species in my bit of Queensland rainforest, know that they will get out of our way if we leave them a choice. Some snakes are described as aggressive, but, if you're a snake, unprovoked aggression doesn't make sense. Snakes on a plane only want to get off. But Irwin was an entertainer, a 21st-century version of a lion-tamer, with crocodiles instead of lions.
In 2004, Irwin was accused of illegally encroaching on the space of penguins, seals and humpback whales in Antarctica, where he was filming a documentary called Ice Breaker. An investigation by the Australian Environmental Department resulted in no action being taken, which is not surprising seeing that John Howard, the prime minister, made sure that Irwin was one of the guests invited to a "gala barbecue" for George Bush a few months before. Howard is now Irwin's chief mourner, which is only fair, seeing that Irwin announced that Howard is the greatest leader the world has ever seen.
The animal world has finally taken its revenge on Irwin, but probably not before a whole generation of kids in shorts seven sizes too small has learned to shout in the ears of animals with hearing 10 times more acute than theirs, determined to become millionaire animal-loving zoo-owners in their turn.
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Heartless *****.
