The Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin dead at 44

Shaneus · Post by **Shaneus** » 04 Sep 2006 03:18 pm

Yeah... I just hope it gets broken to her by a close friend or relative rather than the media... that would be harsh.

mxlegend99 · Post by **mxlegend99** » 04 Sep 2006 03:20 pm

That's fucked. So she probably doesn't know that her hubby is dead yet. I bet that people in the States knew it before she did.

Texas · Post by **Texas** » 04 Sep 2006 03:22 pm

Have heard Helicopters this arvo here (Hobart CBD.) That's not a common thing in Hobart, could be related...

Pat · Post by **Pat** » 04 Sep 2006 03:38 pm

The ABC news website has been absolutely hammered because of this news. Ive never seen anything get as much attention, and this shows how much the guy was liked.

Madmya · Post by **Madmya** » 04 Sep 2006 05:37 pm

So sad. The man was a legend, and to die from a bloody stingray of all the insanely dangerous creatures he works with. He's the 3rd person to die by a stingray in Australia. Absolutely shithouse.

Cletus · Post by **Cletus** » 04 Sep 2006 06:07 pm

I always wondered why they called them a stingray.Until today I didn't even know they could go under water,let alone actually having a stinger.

I'd still pet one.

Candy Arse · Post by **Candy Arse** » 04 Sep 2006 06:56 pm

Horrible news. Feel very bad for his wife and kids.

Ambrose Burnside · Post by **Ambrose Burnside** » 04 Sep 2006 08:52 pm

Steve IrwOwned

I bet he was trying to ride the stringray. Or grab its tail.

jizzlobber · Post by **jizzlobber** » 04 Sep 2006 09:37 pm

why is it funny?

mxlegend99 · Post by **mxlegend99** » 04 Sep 2006 09:43 pm

Ambrose Burnside wrote:Steve IrwOwned

I bet he was trying to ride the stringray. Or grab its tail.

Ummm you're a fuckwit.

The guy died less then 12 hours ago and you're trying to make jokes about it.

Pat · Post by **Pat** » 04 Sep 2006 09:44 pm

Theyre showing Enough Rope with him on it now. The guy was a legend.

jahooley · Post by **jahooley** » 04 Sep 2006 10:07 pm

mxlegend99 wrote:
Ambrose Burnside wrote:Steve IrwOwned

I bet he was trying to ride the stringray. Or grab its tail.
Ummm you're a fuckwit.

The guy died less then 12 hours ago and you're trying to make jokes about it.

yea, i feel bad for saying "crikey!" in response to this bad news.

reports say that he was swimming right above the sting-ray when it's metre long tail flicked upwards like the tail of a scorpion right into his chest. a freak accident indeed...

Twit · Post by **Twit** » 04 Sep 2006 10:17 pm

Remind's me of Vzzzbx's "Is Don Is Dead".

But it's true - he probably was trying to do something like that. And he probably would say "Crikey" and make light of it. I'm not sure why I feel a little bit saddened by his death, but I do. He was an embarrassing idiot at times, but he seemed to remain an ordinary bloke. I guess that's the endearing part of his personality.

SythBlade · Post by **SythBlade** » 04 Sep 2006 10:22 pm

thanks for the heads up pat.

=[ r.i.p.

Darwi · Post by **Darwi** » 05 Sep 2006 04:05 am

An unlucky way to go for sure...

I've heard of at least two other stingray deaths in Australia... one that died at the time... and another poor guy who died three days later (slowly bled out at home).

selfish · Post by **selfish** » 05 Sep 2006 08:34 am

also: a stingray barb

and google is very blunt

unfnknblvbl · Post by **unfnknblvbl** » 05 Sep 2006 02:29 pm

Scullibundo · Post by **Scullibundo** » 05 Sep 2006 02:32 pm

That's neither funny nor appropriate.

Cletus · Post by **Cletus** » 05 Sep 2006 02:46 pm

This will become one of the most commonly used jokes on the intertron in no time.

What time frame are you guys looking at for a mourning period.I give any celebrity (even those I adore) about 12 seconds before you can make light of it.
Comedians will usually wait a week.

unfnknblvbl · Post by **unfnknblvbl** » 05 Sep 2006 02:51 pm

Scullibundo wrote:That's neither funny nor appropriate.

well actually, if you read the comic, you'll find that it's quite appropriate, as at the moment, the main character of the strip is in heaven...

Scullibundo · Post by **Scullibundo** » 05 Sep 2006 03:20 pm

unfnknblvbl wrote:
Scullibundo wrote:That's neither funny nor appropriate.
well actually, if you read the comic, you'll find that it's quite appropriate, as at the moment, the main character of the strip is in heaven...

I think it's pretty obvious that I meant appropriate in terms of the thread you're posting it in.

I find joking about somebody's death, especially somebody as well loved around not just Aus, but the world, one day after their death to be very tasteless and disrespectful.

mech · Post by **mech** » 05 Sep 2006 03:29 pm

Plenty of people on this forum think it's hilarious to joke about thousands of people dying on September 11... at least this is just one guy for a change.

unfnknblvbl · Post by **unfnknblvbl** » 05 Sep 2006 03:44 pm

it's also pretty obvious that that particular comic is intended to be respectful rather than funny. Jeez!

jahooley · Post by **jahooley** » 05 Sep 2006 03:57 pm

mech wrote:Plenty of people on this forum think it's hilarious to joke about thousands of people dying on September 11...

WTF? whoever laughs at 2,973 people dead in one of the most high scale massacres of recent years is a cockhead, you deserve to be spat on, you mutherfucking slags.

watching Enough Rope last night with Steve from 2003, back then i would of laughed and made fun of him, because he is a quirky character, he does say and do whack stuff.

but watching him now makes you think that despite all his 'sillyness,' he was a true bloke that had immense love and passion for what he did, more than a lot of people combined.

During his time, he was known as the Crocodile Hunter....I think that his second alias, if you will, the Wildlife Warrior truly brands his legacy. it is only now that poeple realise what he did for wildlife and conservation....good on ya Steve.....

mxlegend99 · Post by **mxlegend99** » 05 Sep 2006 04:01 pm

mech wrote:Plenty of people on this forum think it's hilarious to joke about thousands of people dying on September 11... at least this is just one guy for a change.

I don't think anyone here finds September 11 hilarious to joke about (although people love to speculate that it was staged etc.). I'd like too see how many names of the people that died they knew if they were joking about it though.

This is being disrespectful to a person specifically. IMO it's worse.