Steve Irwin Dead!!!!

[Comrade Bassam]

Very sad news indeed...
Rest in peace Steve!

[dodzi]

This guy always made me laugh, but he also was kind of crazy... Check this out:

Source: http://www.rightwingnews.com/category.php?ent=1640 with pic inside

Steve Irwin Has A Michael Jackson "Balcony Moment"
It seems that the Crocodile Hunter, Steve Irwin, took his kid out with him to feed a croc. Here are the details...

"Crocodile hunter Steve Irwin has defended his decision to hold his baby son while feeding a crocodile, saying it was important to teach kids about danger.

Friday's incident at Mr Irwin's Australia Zoo on the Sunshine Coast made headlines internationally and prompted comparisons with Michael Jackson's notorious dangling of his baby over a balcony.

Mr Irwin also earned a reprimand from Queensland's Department of Family Services."

Now while I haven't seen the show yet, it probably went about like this...

Staff Member: I don't know if it's a good idea to take your baby out to feed that croc...

Steve Irwin: Nonsense, mate. You're always such a worrywart! Remember that time you told me not to take a flying leap into that rattlesnake nest?

Staff Member: Steve, you were bitten 8 times. If we didn't have the antidote on hand, you would have died right there!

Steve Irwin: See? It worked out fine! Roll cameras, I'm off...

Staff Member: Wait, wait...Steve...

Steve Irwin: (takes the baby out to feed the croc, filming starts) "Crikey mate! These crocs have a great sense of smell and this little sheila here knows this is my baby. That's why she'd like nothing better than to snatch this sweet, succulent, baby out of my arms and eat him like an hors d'oeuvres to make up for all the times I've taunted her on camera. Woah, she almost took a nip out of my baby that time! Boy, I would have looked pretty silly if that had happened, huh mate?

Ok, now let's try something a little different...I'm going to dangle this baby right over the croc's mouth. She's not going for him yet! Let's see what happens when I rub the baby across this angry crocodile's nose...ohhhh wow! She came this close to biting him right in half...that was scary! She's thrashing left and right, she's really kill crazy now! Boy, these crocs sure are beautiful when they're trying to rip a baby out of your arms and eat it alive in front of you!

(Hops out of the croc pen) Well, that was a real adventure wasn't it? Make sure to come back next week when I place my baby inbetween an enraged mother hippo and her baby! They really hate that, more than anything! See you next week everybody!

Steve, buddy, here's a little friendly advice...keep your baby out of the croc pens. I'm just trying to help you out here...

[mephisto794]

RIP Steve ...

That's a person I used to really enjoy watching on TV... he made the most dangerous tasks look so easy, so .... natural. Even the fiercest animals (crocodiles mainly, snakes, spiders, insects ...) looked harmless in his hands. (now we know they are not that safe..) He used to manipulate them just like we approach a kitty cat!

[Cheekie]

Steve Irwin's death was a shock to the world! Everytime I hear something about his death on the news or radio I feel like I have lost a friend.

He definitely died doing something he loved!!!

Rest in Peace Steve, the world of dangerous animals will never be the same!

[LebArmenian]

i was shocked when i saw it on cnn news last night !!!

R.I.P steve Irwin !!! you were a really great man !

[King Rami]

what the hell...
he plays around with snakes and crocodiles and a fish killed him!! what a life

[Thuggishh_E]

Steve Irwin was videotaped pulling a poisonous stingray barb from his chest in his last moments of life, officials said Tuesday, as tributes poured in for TV's "Crocodile Hunter."

Police said there was nothing suspicious about Irwin's death and no evidence he provoked the animal. Irwin, 44, was stabbed through the heart on Monday while snorkeling with a stingray during filming of a new TV program on Australia's Great Barrier Reef.

John Stainton, Irwin's manager who was among the crew on the reef, said the fatal blow was caught on videotape, and described viewing the footage as having the "terrible" experience of watching a friend die.

"It shows that Steve came over the top of the ray and the tail came up, and spiked him here (in the chest), and he pulled it out and the next minute he's gone," Stainton told reporters in Cairns, where Irwin's body was taken for an autopsy.

Queensland state police were holding the tape as evidence for a coroner's inquiry — a standard procedure in high-profile deaths or those caused by other than natural causes.

Experts have said the stingray may have felt trapped between the cameraman and the TV star. Irwin, the popular host of "Crocodile Hunter," rose to fame by getting dangerously close to crocodiles, snakes and other beasts.

But Queensland Police Superintendent Michael Keating said there was no evidence Irwin threatened or intimidated the stingray, a normally placid species that only deploys its poisonous tail spines as a defense.

Stainton said Irwin was in his element in the Outback, but that he and Irwin had talked about the sea posing threats the star wasn't used to.

"If ever he was going to go, we always said it was going to be the ocean," Stainton said. "On land he was agile, quick-thinking, quick-moving and the ocean puts another element there that you have no control over."

Parliament took a break from the business of running the country to pay tribute to Irwin, whose body was being flown home Tuesday from Cairns. No funeral plans were announced but state Premier Peter Beattie said Irwin would be afforded a state funeral if his family agreed.

Irwin's American wife Terri, Bindi and their son Bob, almost 3, returned late Monday from a trekking vacation in Tasmania to Australia Zoo, the wildlife park where the family lived at Beerwah in Queensland's southeast.

At the park, hundreds of people filed past the entrance laying floral bouquets and handwritten condolence messages. Khaki shirts — a trademark of Irwin — were laid out for people to sign.

"Mate, you made the world a better place," read one poster left at the gate. "Steve, our hero, our legend, our wildlife warrior," read another. "I thought you were immortal. How I wish that was true," said a third.

The park opened Tuesday because it was what Irwin would have wanted, said Gail Gipp, an animal health employee.

Irwin was propelled to global fame after his TV shows, in which he regularly wrestled with crocodiles and went face-to-face with poisonous snakes and other wild animals, were shown around world on the Discovery Channel.

The network announced plans for a marathon screening of Irwin's work and a wildlife fund in his name.

"Rarely has the world embraced an animal enthusiast and conservationist as they did Steve Irwin," Discovery Networks International President Dawn McCall said in a statement.

Experts differed on the number of human deaths caused by stingrays — anywhere from 3 to 17 — though they agreed that they were extremely rare.

Steve Irwin and his wife Terri pose with an aligator named Bubba during the premiere of the adventure comedy motion picture 'The Crocodile Hunter - Collision Course' at the Cinerama Dome in Hollywood June 29, 2002

[Inanna]

as i was going through irwin's biography and reading articles, i feel on some of the quotes he said:


Because when they strike it can be that quick that if they're within range, you're dead, you're dead in your tracks. And his head weighs more than my body so it's WHACK!
Steve Irwin

But I put my life on the line to save animals.
Steve Irwin

Crikey means gee whiz, wow!
Steve Irwin

Crikey, mate. You're far safer dealing with crocodiles and western diamondback rattlesnakes than the executives and the producers and all those sharks in the big MGM building.
Steve Irwin

Every cent we earn from Crocodile Hunter goes straight back into conservation. Every single cent.
Steve Irwin

Herein lies our problem. If we level that much land to grow rice and whatever, then no other animal could live there except for some insect pest species. Which is very unfortunate.
Steve Irwin

I am optimistic globally. So many scientists are working frantically on the reparation of our planet.
Steve Irwin

I believe our biggest issue is the same biggest issue that the whole world is facing, and that's habitat destruction.
Steve Irwin

I believe sustainable use is the greatest propaganda in wildlife conservation at the moment.
Steve Irwin

I believe that education is all about being excited about something. Seeing passion and enthusiasm helps push an educational message.
Steve Irwin

I bled a lot. I got hit across the face. We couldn't film for seven days. I got hit, whacked, underwater, across the face. I finished the shot, got into the boat and blood started coming out.
Steve Irwin

I get called an adrenaline junkie every other minute, and I'm just fine with that.
Steve Irwin

I have no fear of losing my life - if I have to save a koala or a crocodile or a kangaroo or a snake, mate, I will save it.
Steve Irwin

I mean, these are all just little pink bits here (pointing at his arm) and are just curing up now. I've been recently filming a nine-and-a-half-foot female crocodile I had to catch. Oh, man, she bit me up! That was a mistake.
Steve Irwin

I sincerely believe that there's room for cutting down trees for forestry and grazing, so as we all get to eat. Everyone has to compromise.
Steve Irwin

I'm a proud Australian, a very, very proud Australian.
Steve Irwin

I've probably saved thousands of peoples' lives with my educational message on snake bites, how to get in around venomous anything.
Steve Irwin

My belief is that what comes across on the television is a capture of my enthusiasm and my passion for wildlife.
Steve Irwin

My dad taught me from my youngest childhood memories through these connections with Aboriginal and tribal people that you must always protect people's sacred status, regardless of the pest.
Steve Irwin

My field is with apex predators, hence your crocodiles, your snakes, your spiders.
Steve Irwin

No matter where you go and what you do in America, you turn the tele on and you're confronted with violence.
Steve Irwin

No, snakes are no problem. I'd go to any country, anywhere, any snakes, not a problem.
Steve Irwin

See, I've always seen Jacques Cousteau as a hero, mate. He's a legend - like my dad, just a legend. And so what he did for conservation in the '60s through the '70s was just phenomenal.
Steve Irwin

Sharks, I've been self-trained as well, and crocodiles, naturally. I've been catching them since I was nine. No problem.
Steve Irwin

Since I was a boy, from this house, I was out rescuing crocodiles and snakes. My mum and dad were very passionate about that and, I was lucky enough to go along.
Steve Irwin

Snakes are just very instinctive to me. I've been playing with snakes since before I could walk. It doesn't matter where or what it is, from the biggest to the most venomous.
Steve Irwin

So fear helps me from making mistakes, but I make lot of mistakes.
Steve Irwin

So now what happens is the cameras follow me around and capture exactly what I've been doing since I was a boy. Only now we have a team of, you know, like 73 of us, and it's gone beyond that.
Steve Irwin

So, my tactic with conservation of apex predators is to get people excited and take them to where they live.
Steve Irwin

Take the crocodile, for example, my favorite animal. There are 23 species. Seventeen of those species are rare or endangered. They're on the way out, no matter what anyone does or says, you know.
Steve Irwin

That might have a lot to do with it, but you know, I probably don't show fear, but I suffer from fear like everyone else.
Steve Irwin

The first crocodile I ever caught was at nine years of age, and it was a rescue.
Steve Irwin

The only animals I'm not comfortable with are parrots, but I'm learning as I go. I'm getting better and better at 'em. I really am.
Steve Irwin

There's a lot of research behind the scenes that you don't get to see, but I have an instinct that my dad nurtured from when I was born. I was very lucky then.
Steve Irwin

We've evolved from sitting back on our tripods and shooting wildlife films like they have been shot historically, which doesn't work for us.
Steve Irwin

When I talk to the camera, mate, it's not like I'm talking to the camera, I'm talking to you because I want to whip you around and plunk you right there with me.
Steve Irwin

When the East Timor conflict broke out, when they gained independence, the militia killed a lot of East Timorese people. And their sacred totem is the crocodile. They believe that their island is actually a solidified crocodile, so it has sacred status.
Steve Irwin

Where I live if someone gives you a hug it's from the heart.
Steve Irwin

Yeah, for some reason parrots have to bite me. That's their job. I don't know why that is. They've nearly torn my nose off. I've had some really bad parrot bites.
Steve Irwin

Yeah, I think it's an absolute disaster that Australia, the government, allowed kangaroo culling.
Steve Irwin

Yeah, I'm a thrill seeker, but crikey, education's the most important thing.
Steve Irwin

You know, I'm Australian, and we have got the worst sense of humor. We are cruel to each other.
Steve Irwin

You know, you can touch a stick of dynamite, but if you touch a venomous snake it'll turn around and bite you and kill you so fast it's not even funny.
Steve Irwin

[Gio]

i really likes this guy.

RIP Steve

[lucy78]

Australia lost a great australian icon, allah yir7amu