Steve Irwin, the Crocodile Hunter, was killed on Sunday. I enjoyed the hell out of his tv shows.
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Barb from stingray kills Crocodile Hunter Irwin
BRISBANE, Australia Steve Irwin, the Australian television personality and environmentalist
I didn’t think he’d live to be particularly old, but still, crap.
What kind of operation are they running up there anyway? Steve Irwin, Joe Strummer and John Peel can go, but…aw, complete the sentence yourself.
The great thing about Croc Hunter is that it is the kind of tv show you can watch with your kids and everyone enjoys it. There are very, very few shows like that. He’ll be missed.
Everything can be a metaphor
The article mentions he got the stingray barb in the middle of his chest, inducing cardiac arrest. Knowing nothing about stingray poisons, I wonder if he had gotten it in the leg or some other extremity if the injury would have been more survivable?
Yes, it would. The poison’s not necessarily deadly to people, but he got stabbed in the heart.
Liberals’ ability to relate anything into “We Hate Bush” is simply astounding.
With respect to his injury, the last article I read said the barb went right into his heart creating a hole. It seems to be the location of the injury rather than any toxins that may have been released. From what I have read the stings usually are not fatal unless the sting occurs in the chest and heart.
While agree it wasn’t a very good idea, Liberals don’t have the monopoly on bad taste.
Truly sad and shocking.
The irony that it wasn’t a croc that finally got him. However, Australia seems to house more deadly creatures than anywhere else in the world, and I was thinking about this every minute of the one time I was there on holiday.
At least he died doing what he loved. I don’t think he’d want anyone feeling sorry for him, just to continue his work and bring awareness to nature. I understand a large portion of what he earned went to conservation projects. Still, you gotta feel for his family, although they lived with the risk every day he got in front of the camera.
“Liberals’ ability to relate anything into “We Hate Bush” is simply astounding.”
There is a lot of truth to that. For instance, I, a typical liberal, hate Bush, night and day, day and night.
But I was sorry to hear about Steve Irwin.
Some wingnut posted somewhere that stingrays are like terrorists, stabbing America in the heart. I’m too lazy to look up the reference.
Conservatives’ ability to relate anything to liberal attacks on their losing strategies in the “war on terror” as led by our inept President is simply astounding.
Here is the comment I found:
Paul Weissguy said…
Hey Jen,
“What’s your take on that Crocodile Hunter that expired on a ray’s stingy thingy ?
“I smell something nefarious going on. I think the Russians or Japs murdered him as he was outspoken against whaling and those people love whale blubber.
” See my point. Take Irwin out, one less antiwhaling dude to contend with. Let us know if you hear of anything out of the ordinary. G’day baby!
Isn’t that sweet! Isn’t that nice!