CRIKEY! Death by stingray (Steve Irwin killed, RIP)

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Steve Irwin...being stupid?

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

Oh shit, who is gonna advertise Toyota utes now? Oh shit, who is gonna inform us if you don't declare items at customs you might end up with a WHOPPIN' BIG FINE???

― Domenico Buttez (ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!!), Monday, 4 September 2006 11:35 (seventeen years ago) link

Wolfmother, probably.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 4 September 2006 11:42 (seventeen years ago) link

this is a most odd thing to read to start yr day...

― Jimmy Mod: THE HANDLESS ORGANIST (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Monday, 4 September 2006 11:43 (seventeen years ago) link

"WOOOOOOMAN, YOU GOTTA DECLARE ITEMS ON ENTRY TO AUSTRALIA! WOOOOOOMAN!"

― Domenico Buttez (ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!!), Monday, 4 September 2006 11:44 (seventeen years ago) link

:( More pics here: http://www.julianrocks.net/sharks/bullrays.htm

― beanz (beanz), Monday, 4 September 2006 11:44 (seventeen years ago) link

still nothing good on ytmnd yet..
http://ytmnd.com/list/?search=steve+irwin

― mr. brojangles (sanskrit), Monday, 4 September 2006 11:48 (seventeen years ago) link

Someone needs to bring back the "You're the best!" fad for Irwin.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 4 September 2006 12:22 (seventeen years ago) link

So sad! RIP.

― mts (theoreticalgirl), Monday, 4 September 2006 12:24 (seventeen years ago) link

He was the most stereotypical Australian ever. I bet he drove a ute.

― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Monday, 4 September 2006 12:32 (seventeen years ago) link

""He came over the top of a stingray that was buried in the sand, and the barb came up and hit him in the chest," said Stainton.

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

http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f223/joegood/stingrayxr7.jpg

Seriously, this is sad news.

― chap who would dare to start Raaatpackin (chap), Monday, 4 September 2006 12:51 (seventeen years ago) link

The stingray could not be reached for comment.

― señor citizen (eman), Monday, 4 September 2006 13:19 (seventeen years ago) link

On the next episode of The Crocodile Hunter...

http://img372.imageshack.us/img372/24/pwnirwingq8.gif

― Domenico Buttez (ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!!), Monday, 4 September 2006 13:21 (seventeen years ago) link

Chaki is OTM. You dudes are assholes.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 4 September 2006 14:50 (seventeen years ago) link

Ugh. This is sad, and just bizarre.

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

What Jordan said. I hate this place sometimes.

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 4 September 2006 14:56 (seventeen years ago) link

I think a lot of people are pretty shocked by this one - I've had three emails and one text about it today. But he was such a boisterous, energetic character that it's hard to be completely sombre about it.

― chap who would dare to start Raaatpackin (chap), Monday, 4 September 2006 15:01 (seventeen years ago) link

Actually, there's really only one person being an asshole. I think he's done a lot to educate - Crocodile Hunter programmes are exactly the kind of thing I watch when needing no-brainer telly and I end up knowing stuff that I didn't before, even if it's just "you can do mad shit to crocodiles and they won't kill you". I didn't realise he did quite so much conservation work - I did watch a show where he was out rescuing injured wallabies and looking after them until they were realised back into the wild, but I didn't realise the extent to which this was what he did and the TV shows were a by-product, rather than the nice stuff being just for good TV. Unless the obits are fawning too much.

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 4 September 2006 15:07 (seventeen years ago) link

I like how he seemed to love every animal, even if it was trying to eat him. He'd be holding a KILLER SNAKE FROM HELL that would be struggling like crazy and spitted venom everywhere and he'd invariably say "Look at this little beauty, isn't he gorgeous?"

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

spitting*

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Monday, 4 September 2006 15:10 (seventeen years ago) link

I saw him a couple of times on late shows where he always made an ass of himself, embarrassed me as a viewer.
Saw some of his shows and I was surprised to see how he was actually a capable man; very agile and strong, caught a hiuge wild boar with his bare hands, climbing tree like a monkey etc damn

free ringtones from website

― funny ringtones (funny ringtones), Monday, 4 September 2006 15:15 (seventeen years ago) link

Also, he has that marvellous Anders Frisk hairstyle, and saying "crikey" in an Australian accent makes him a really easy person to impersonate when drunk. What's not to like, really?

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 4 September 2006 15:16 (seventeen years ago) link

I misread that as "snuggling like crazy." (multi-x-post)

RIP, Crikeydude.

― Danny Aioli (Rock Hardy), Monday, 4 September 2006 15:17 (seventeen years ago) link

The saddest thing of all is that after years of working with fabulously dangerous snakes and reptiles, Mr. Irwin finally succumbed to a flatfish. Poor bastard. :(

― Obvious Ninja (Haberdager), Monday, 4 September 2006 15:22 (seventeen years ago) link

someone needs to do a ytmnd with 'shot through the heart' as the music.

― fellini-esque-lit-rockist (tehresa), Monday, 4 September 2006 15:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Flatfish (Pleuronectiformes) and rays (Rajiformes) are not the same thing, Louis.

― Danny Aioli (Rock Hardy), Monday, 4 September 2006 15:29 (seventeen years ago) link

Hah! Next thing you'll be telling me that snakes ARE reptiles!

― Obvious Ninja (Haberdager), Monday, 4 September 2006 15:32 (seventeen years ago) link

Irwin ruled very hard. I still hope this is some kind of prank. If not, RIP Big Fella.

― I Supersize Disaster (noodle vague), Monday, 4 September 2006 16:47 (seventeen years ago) link

RIP. This makes me sick.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Monday, 4 September 2006 17:14 (seventeen years ago) link

He was one of the good guys whose work was deeper and more impressive than his matey persona would suggest, RIP indeed.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Monday, 4 September 2006 17:24 (seventeen years ago) link

I am reminded of Grizzly Man.

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

No, don't compare him to Treadwell. Irwin's death was freak accident (last similar death in Australia was in the 1940s or something). Treadwell on the other hand was a seriously damaged individual behaving incredibly recklessly and irresponsibly.

― jimnaseum (jimnaseum), Monday, 4 September 2006 18:33 (seventeen years ago) link

The amount of attention this is getting is amazing. He truly was an international superstar.

― Super Cub (Debito), Monday, 4 September 2006 19:25 (seventeen years ago) link

John Howard was close to tears when I watched him on the news earlier.

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 4 September 2006 20:25 (seventeen years ago) link

DUDE WAS A GOOD GUY, THIS SUCKS.

― gear (gear), Monday, 4 September 2006 20:49 (seventeen years ago) link

I like never watched his show but this has got me really really down for some reason.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Monday, 4 September 2006 21:04 (seventeen years ago) link

And yet Rolf Harris still lives...

― Obvious Ninja (Haberdager), Monday, 4 September 2006 21:10 (seventeen years ago) link

The amount of attention this is getting is amazing. He truly was an international superstar.

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

I began to admire Steve Irwin when he was interviewed by Andrew Denton on Enough Rope a couple of years ago. The following exchange described an act of pure unselfishness and it sums up what he was all about.

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.htm
The part about the buttons made me sad.

― Hard like armour (Hard like armour), Monday, 4 September 2006 21:52 (seventeen years ago) link

RIP-- Rock on, Croc Hunter!

― Joe (Joe), Monday, 4 September 2006 22:04 (seventeen years ago) link

bloody tragic! RIP a good one :(

― bad hair day house (fandango), Monday, 4 September 2006 22:21 (seventeen years ago) link

And yet Rolf Harris still lives...

Justice in the world after all.

― Domenico Buttez (ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!!), Monday, 4 September 2006 22:25 (seventeen years ago) link

steve irwin we mourn for you

― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Monday, 4 September 2006 22:39 (seventeen years ago) link

steve cries for his dead crocodile friend mary

― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Monday, 4 September 2006 22:39 (seventeen years ago) link

still nothing good on ytmnd yet..
http://ytmnd.com/list/?search=steve+irwin

-- mr. brojangles (mikeoptin...), September 4th, 2006. (sanskrit) (later)

http://stevenirwin.ytmnd.com/

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 4 September 2006 22:40 (seventeen years ago) link

http://popesteve.ytmnd.com/

― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Monday, 4 September 2006 22:50 (seventeen years ago) link

Who said he was going to heaven?

― Domenico Buttez (ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!!), Monday, 4 September 2006 22:50 (seventeen years ago) link

http://howcouldthishappentosteve.ytmnd.com/

― Domenico Buttez (ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!!), Monday, 4 September 2006 22:53 (seventeen years ago) link

this is much sadder today. yesterday it was hard to believe. maybe he never seemed very real to a lot of australians. his voice and mannerisms were so exaggerated- he was such a blatant caricature of an ocker. he did great work though, and it's awful for his family. rip.

― estela (estela), Monday, 4 September 2006 22:55 (seventeen years ago) link

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