― Konal Doddz (blueski), Monday, 4 September 2006 10:03 (seventeen years ago) link
― Domenico Buttez (ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!!), Monday, 4 September 2006 10:07 (seventeen years ago) link
Attacks on humans are a rarity - only one other person is known to have died in Australia from a stingray attack, at St Kilda, Melbourne in 1945.
― Konal Doddz (blueski), Monday, 4 September 2006 10:11 (seventeen years ago) link
― gem (trisk), Monday, 4 September 2006 10:31 (seventeen years ago) link
The fuck? Attacks on humans are not at all a rarity, at least in Florida. 99% of the time it a sting to the foot when accidentally stepped on, or to the arm trying to remove one from your fishing line. Very very painful but rarely fatal.
I don't know the exact circumstances of the incident, but if Steve grabbed one from behind and pulled it toward his chest, that was extreme willful stupidity on his part. You keep the business end pointed AWAY from you.
― wostyntje (wostyntje), Monday, 4 September 2006 10:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― chaki (chaki), Monday, 4 September 2006 10:46 (seventeen years ago) link
― Konal Doddz (blueski), Monday, 4 September 2006 11:01 (seventeen years ago) link
From The Register.
― beanz (beanz), Monday, 4 September 2006 11:04 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.stephenwong.com/albums/rays/Bull_Ray_01_2_meter_disc_020804.jpg
― wostyntje (wostyntje), Monday, 4 September 2006 11:13 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.theage.com.au/ffxImage/urlpicture_id_1072908911446_2004/01/02/3n_croc,0.jpg
Never!
― Domenico Buttez (ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!!), Monday, 4 September 2006 11:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― Domenico Buttez (ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!!), Monday, 4 September 2006 11:35 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 4 September 2006 11:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jimmy Mod: THE HANDLESS ORGANIST (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Monday, 4 September 2006 11:43 (seventeen years ago) link
― Domenico Buttez (ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!!), Monday, 4 September 2006 11:44 (seventeen years ago) link
― beanz (beanz), Monday, 4 September 2006 11:44 (seventeen years ago) link
― mr. brojangles (sanskrit), Monday, 4 September 2006 11:48 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 4 September 2006 12:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― mts (theoreticalgirl), Monday, 4 September 2006 12:24 (seventeen years ago) link
― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Monday, 4 September 2006 12:32 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/TV/09/04/australia.irwin/index.html
Yay conflicting accounts. Its a conspiracy.
― wostyntje (wostyntje), Monday, 4 September 2006 12:45 (seventeen years ago) link
Seriously, this is sad news.
― chap who would dare to start Raaatpackin (chap), Monday, 4 September 2006 12:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― señor citizen (eman), Monday, 4 September 2006 13:19 (seventeen years ago) link
http://img372.imageshack.us/img372/24/pwnirwingq8.gif
― Domenico Buttez (ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!!), Monday, 4 September 2006 13:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 4 September 2006 14:50 (seventeen years ago) link
I really hate to admit that my first thought was that I'll now be thinking of Irwin whenever i hear Fred Schneider sing "here's comes a STINGRAY!" in "Rock Lobster"
Stupid stunts aside, if he did champion a lot of good causes, then this really sucks. I hope his widow and family keep that up now. :(
― the dow nut industrial average dead joe mama besser (donut), Monday, 4 September 2006 14:56 (seventeen years ago) link
― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 4 September 2006 14:56 (seventeen years ago) link
― chap who would dare to start Raaatpackin (chap), Monday, 4 September 2006 15:01 (seventeen years ago) link
― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 4 September 2006 15:07 (seventeen years ago) link
His energy and enthusiasm was infectious and was a refreshing change from tedious Attenborough narratives.
RIP
― Onimo (GerryNemo), Monday, 4 September 2006 15:10 (seventeen years ago) link
free ringtones from website
― funny ringtones (funny ringtones), Monday, 4 September 2006 15:15 (seventeen years ago) link
― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 4 September 2006 15:16 (seventeen years ago) link
RIP, Crikeydude.
― Danny Aioli (Rock Hardy), Monday, 4 September 2006 15:17 (seventeen years ago) link
― Obvious Ninja (Haberdager), Monday, 4 September 2006 15:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― fellini-esque-lit-rockist (tehresa), Monday, 4 September 2006 15:27 (seventeen years ago) link
― Danny Aioli (Rock Hardy), Monday, 4 September 2006 15:29 (seventeen years ago) link
― Obvious Ninja (Haberdager), Monday, 4 September 2006 15:32 (seventeen years ago) link
― I Supersize Disaster (noodle vague), Monday, 4 September 2006 16:47 (seventeen years ago) link
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Monday, 4 September 2006 17:14 (seventeen years ago) link
― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Monday, 4 September 2006 17:24 (seventeen years ago) link
Both Steve Irwin and Timothy Treadwell knew what they were doing more than people give them credit for and knew the risks better than dumbfucks who cluelessly insist that their deaths were somehow inevitable. They were both really unlucky, especially Irwin, RIP.
― Ogmor Roundtrouser (Ogmor Roundtrouser), Monday, 4 September 2006 18:29 (seventeen years ago) link
― jimnaseum (jimnaseum), Monday, 4 September 2006 18:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― Super Cub (Debito), Monday, 4 September 2006 19:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 4 September 2006 20:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― gear (gear), Monday, 4 September 2006 20:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Monday, 4 September 2006 21:04 (seventeen years ago) link
― Obvious Ninja (Haberdager), Monday, 4 September 2006 21:10 (seventeen years ago) link
OTM. I was amazed at his popularity at work today: EVERYONE knew about him, EVERYONE had seen one or more of his shows when nothing else was on (in the morning, in the afternoon, in the middle of the night) - his crocodile shows are the kind of thing National Geographic tends to repeat all the time - they also do that with mummies and sharks and tornadoes and submersibles, but only Steve was on screen all the time.
― StanM (StanM), Monday, 4 September 2006 21:15 (seventeen years ago) link
Andrew Denton: A lot of people see you as this...this larger than life Steve Irwin, in some ways a one-dimensional, almost cartoon character. But what they, perhaps, don't know is you've bought huge tracts of land in Australia, Vanuatu, Fiji, US. Why have you done that?
Steve Irwin: I'm a conservationist through and through, Andrew. That's, er...that's why I was put on this planet, um, for the benefit of wildlife and wilderness areas. That's what I'm into. That's what makes me pumped, mate. That's what myself and Terry and our families have been all about.
Andrew Denton: So what's this land for?
Steve Irwin: Um, it's like national parks, mate. We... You know, easily the greatest threat to the wildlife globally is the destruction and annihilation of habitat. So I've gone, "Right, well, how do I fix that?”
http://www.abc.net.au/tv/enoughrope/transcripts/s960998.htmThe part about the buttons made me sad.
― Hard like armour (Hard like armour), Monday, 4 September 2006 21:52 (seventeen years ago) link
― Joe (Joe), Monday, 4 September 2006 22:04 (seventeen years ago) link
CRIKEY http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/03/20/stingray/index.html
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Thursday, 20 March 2008 18:18 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/media/photo/2008-03/36972908.jpg
― gershy, Thursday, 20 March 2008 18:39 (sixteen years ago) link
too soon
― deeznuts, Thursday, 20 March 2008 19:01 (sixteen years ago) link
The spotted eagle ray weighed about 75 pounds, said Becky Herrin, a spokeswoman for the Monroe County Sheriff's Office.
The species, also called a leopard ray or bonnet skate, can measure up to 8 feet in length, with an 8-foot tail, and weigh up to 500 pounds, according to the Florida Museum of Natural History's Web site.
They tend to swim close to the surface and can leap out of the water when being pursued, according to the site.
^^^all of this information is kinda incredible/terrifying
― Jordan, Thursday, 20 March 2008 19:03 (sixteen years ago) link
http://216.166.86.110/familydigestshow/images/Photo%20Caption%20-%20The%20One%20Minute%20Dad%20swimming%20with%20his%20children%20and%20a%20very%20large%20Stingray%21.JPG http://cache.viewimages.com/xc/3268879.jpg%3Fv%3D1%26c%3DViewImages%26k%3D2%26d%3D10276273D480F6D86F05BE1C7FF940D5A55A1E4F32AD3138
― Jordan, Thursday, 20 March 2008 19:04 (sixteen years ago) link