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Lifestyle => Sports & Entertainment => Topic started by: WestCoasta on September 03, 2006, 10:55:55 PM
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BRISBANE, Australia - Steve Irwin, the hugely popular Australian television personality and environmentalist known as the "Crocodile Hunter," was killed Monday by a stingray during a diving expedition, Australian media said. He was 44.
Irwin was filming an underwater documentary on the Great Barrier Reef in northeastern Queensland state when the accident occurred, Sydney's The Daily Telegraph newspaper reported on its Web site.
The Australian Broadcasting Corp. said Irwin was diving near Low Isles Reef near the resort town of Port Douglas, about 1,260 miles north of the state capital of Brisbane.
Queensland ambulance service spokesman Bob Hamil confirmed that a diver had been killed by a stingray off Lowe Isles Reef but refused to say who the victim was until relatives had been notified.
A rescue helicopter was sent from the nearby city of Cairns, and paramedics from it confirmed the diver's death.
"The probable cause of death is stingray strike to the chest," Hamil said.
Staff at Australia Zoo, Irwin's zoo in southern Queensland, said they had heard the reports but could not comment.
Irwin is famous for his enthusiasm for wildlife and his catchcry "Crikey!" in his television program "Crocodile Hunter," which was first broadcast in Australia in 1992 and has aired around the world on the Discovery channel.
He rode his image into a feature film, and developed the Australia Zoo as a tourist attraction.
Irwin had received some negative publicity in recent years. In January 2004, he stunned onlookers at the Australia Zoo reptile park by carrying his 1-year-old son into a crocodile pen during a wildlife show. He tucked the infant under one arm while tossing the 13-foot reptile a piece of meat with the other.
Authorities declined to charge Irwin for violating safety regulations.
Later that year, he was accused of getting too close to penguins, a seal and humpback whales in Antarctica while making a documentary. Irwin denied any wrongdoing, and an Australian Environment Department investigation recommended no action be taken.
Irwin was also seen as a vocal critic of wildlife hunts in Australia. The federal government recently dropped plans to allow crocodile safaris for wealthy tourists in the Northern Territory following his vehement objections.
Irwin told the Australian television program "A Current Affair" that "killing one of our beautiful animals in the name of trophy hunting will have a very negative impact on tourism, which scares the living daylights out of me."
He is survived by his American wife Terri, from Oregon, and their daughter Bindi Sue, 8, and son Bob, who will turn 3 in December.
damn that sucks, guy was insane
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Yeah there is a thread already in the gspot. You got it right though it should have been in this section. Yeah real tragic, dude was cool as fuck RIP
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he had 2 young kids too... rip
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R.I.P
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he had 2 young kids too... rip
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R.I.P this is really tragic
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That's hella shady. I didn't know he was 44.
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I just got news of this from a friend when I was driving back to my pad. I'm really sad about this because he seemed like a guy who loved life. Not to mention he has 2 kids and a really nice wife. This really is some sad news.
RIP Steve Irwin
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I just got news of this from a friend when I was driving back to my pad. I'm really sad about this because he seemed like a guy who loved life. Not to mention he has 2 kids and a really nice wife. This really is some sad news.
RIP Steve Irwin
Yea I agree with you, never seemed down at all lived life like everyday was the last. R.I.P.
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damn, cant believe this, like Sik, he always seemed to enjoy life, spent every day risking his life doing what he loved, and died that same way...we can only hope that is the case for all of us...R.I.P. The Crocodile Hunter...fucked up man...
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R.I.P
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and to think this dude caught a stingray knife to the heart, that's fucked up!
for real tho, that's the chance you take, and most of the time nothing happens
but if it does then damn....
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it was always one of these things you thought would eventually happen.
damn shame.
R.I.P.
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Please tell me this is a sick joke. That guy is one of the most passionate full of life people I've ever seen on television... not only did he have a family to care for, he had an entire zoo chock full of animals he cared for and revitalized Australia's zoo system.
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Im gonna miss watchin him on tv, whenever I can I always try to catch that show, no joke.
Rip
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He died doing what he loved. He was the best at it, many tried to bite his show, but he was the best. R.I.P.
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rip steve irwin, wont be forgotten in a hurry..
worst thing here though was me and few of my homies on friday were chillin round my mates house after smokin a joint when we turned on the tv too steve irwins "crocodile hunters diary" and were just sayin things like how much at risk he puts himself and wondering if he'd come short and end of seriously hurt one day.. then bamm this shit happens.
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rip steve irwin, wont be forgotten in a hurry..
worst thing here though was me and few of my homies on friday were chillin round my mates house after smokin a joint when we turned on the tv too steve irwins "crocodile hunters diary" and were just sayin things like how much at risk he puts himself and wondering if he'd come short and end of seriously hurt one day.. then bamm this shit happens.
IT'S YOUR FAULT MOTHAFUCKA, WHY DID YOU HAVE TO TALK BOUT THIS SHIT >:( >:( >:( >:( >:(
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all the good have to die, when people like bin laden is probably enjoying tea and crackers some where. :grumpy:
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^ lol.
ye its a damn shame, RIP
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rip steve irwin, wont be forgotten in a hurry..
worst thing here though was me and few of my homies on friday were chillin round my mates house after smokin a joint when we turned on the tv too steve irwins "crocodile hunters diary" and were just sayin things like how much at risk he puts himself and wondering if he'd come short and end of seriously hurt one day.. then bamm this shit happens.
IT'S YOUR FAULT MOTHAFUCKA, WHY DID YOU HAVE TO TALK BOUT THIS SHIT >:( >:( >:( >:( >:(
cos we sat and watched him tackle a 30ft Pyphon snake and was pretty much lucky not to come away with serious injuries due to some crazy luck where the pyphon had gotten the better of him and as had bit steve irwins arm, but the snakes lower jaw had hooked onto his pants leg luckily... which inturn meant it didnt wrap around his body and he maneged to get free and out of there..
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it was always one of these things you thought would eventually happen.
damn shame.
R.I.P.
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Damn they actually have the video of Steve Irwin being stabbed and pulling out the shit the stingray stabbed him with, they're using it as evidence for something and have the thing the stingray stabbed him with in their posession.
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Sad shit. Dude was fun to watch. RIP to Steve Irwin.
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like some one said before , it was one of those things you always thought would happen.
but for reals you got to be sad about this. he was one of the few people on tv that did what he did for the love of it.
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R.I.P.