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Crocodile Hunter dead

He lived every day to the fullest, and when the time came, it was quick and in the service of doing what he loved.

Can't ask for more than that, really. RIP.
 
I am just devastated by it. I was only reading what he was upto now on his site a couple of weeks ago. :(


SUCKS.
 
It is sad, isn't it? But as they, say, if you play with fire...

Let's have a look at his IMDB profile

Dispite all his close calls with animals, he has only had muscle surgery on his knee.
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He tells his camera crew to always be filming. If he needs help, he will ask for it. Even if he is eaten by a shark or croc, the main thing he wants is that it be filmed. If he died, he would be sad if no one got it on tape.
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Steve Irwin said:
"If something ever happens to me, people are gonna be like 'we knew a croc would get him!'"
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I was a fan of Irwin since I first saw him stirring a Komodo Dragon up with a stick. The thing was going bezerk, and he's muttering to a camera "HE DOESN'T LIKE IT!".
 
He cheated death one to many times. But it's sad that he went out like this. He was a great entertainer.
 
Someone should have warned him that if you go near a stingray, anything can happen in the next half hour
 
Grammour Boy said:
Stingrays don't look dangerous.
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That was no stingray, that was Gagh in a stingray costume he stole from some little kid he beat up last halloween :shock:
 
I keep seeing this referred to as a "freak accident" but was it really? Unexpected, sure. But a "freak accident" would be more like him being on a city street and getting killed by a stingray that someone had carelessly thrown out of a cab window. How was this a freak accident?
 
Look at this....

Stingrays are usually very docile creatures. The customary reaction of the stingray is to immediately flee the vicinity where a disturbance is located. Nevertheless, certain larger species are located in waters where they are easily excitable due to possible attacks from feeding sharks and should be approached with caution, as the stingray's defensive reflex and effort to flee may result in human contact with the stinger, resulting in serious injury or even, as noted above, fatality.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stingray
 
Nevertheless, certain larger species are located in waters where they are easily excitable due to possible attacks from feeding sharks and should be approached with caution, as the stingray's defensive reflex and effort to flee may result in human contact with the stinger, resulting in serious injury or even, as noted above, fatality.
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Was this the particular kind of species that is easily excitable?
 
Gonad said:
I keep seeing this referred to as a "freak accident" but was it really? Unexpected, sure. But a "freak accident" would be more like him being on a city street and getting killed by a stingray that someone had carelessly thrown out of a cab window. How was this a freak accident?
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I read over at WF this morning before the board closed that there has only been one other stingray death reported in Australia, and that was in 1945. And they really are docile animals, so most likely it was trying to escape when it pierced the poor guy :(
 
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