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

http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/TV/09/04/australia.irwin/index.html

Yay conflicting accounts. Its a conspiracy.

Seriously, this is sad news.

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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. :(

His energy and enthusiasm was infectious and was a refreshing change from tedious Attenborough narratives.

RIP

free ringtones from website

RIP, Crikeydude.

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.

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.

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.

Justice in the world after all.

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

http://stevenirwin.ytmnd.com/

steve irwin was, unquestionably, an ULTIMATE BRO

You say ultimate bro, we say LEGEND.

http://img.4chan.org/b/res/12458185.html

The things he did in regards to conservation and animal protection are great. Steve Irwin himself usually came off as an insufferable arsehole whenever he was on our TV screens.

Also, probably coming to youtube. (which would be in bad taste)

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2006/09/05/1157222105248.html

That's fucking hardcore. RIP.

He campaigned for conservation and as mentioned above, purchased tracts of land to preserve habitat. This is great, but seeing as he was so progressive on this subject, I find it difficult to believe how he could be so damn politically naive. Didn't he realise that Howard and his cronies were partially responsible for environmental destruction? So, we should remember this before glorifying him.

Anyway, RIP. It is very sad and shocking. I think people are shocked by this because Irwin seemed almost invincible; he'd been in so many dangerous situations before, and it was always expected that he just knew how to escape from them.