NJR. Crocodile Hunter Killed in Sting

[American Oyaji]

Sung to the Bon Jovi tune

Shot through the heart
A stringray's to blame
He gives fish
a bad name (bad name)

AK, I was thinking that too in my head.

[Greji]

AK, I was thinking that too in my head.

Ahh, where else do you think besides in your head?

Sorry AO, couldn't let AK beat me to that one!

[Taro Toporific]

First one to link to the film footage gets a nickel.

"Enough Rope" - Steve Irwin
Interview from 2003 with Steve Irwin, who recently died when stung in the heart by a Stingray.
The transcript and details are here:
http://www.abc.net.au/tv/enoughrope/transcripts/s960998.htm


Sadly, YouTube doesn't have that "Enough Rope" video yet but I'm sure that it's floating around the Internet somewhere. As said by IkemenTommy, "the videoof him getting stung should be available on the web soon." His wife and PR people are trying to cook up the tactful terms for a release no doubt. The movie "Grizzly Man" (IMDB info) where the filmmaker gets eaten, serves as a good precedent.

I like this YouTube STEVE IRWIN REMIX.

For other Steve hightlights see YouTube's long list.

[kurohinge1]

I know he may not have been very popular or well-liked in Australia, but we Americans loved the freaking guy. I think it's a "sincerity over intelligence" thing that is peculiar to the States . . .

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Au contraire, mon frair.

He was much loved in Australia and, fittingly, his family have been offered a state funeral.

I hope they accept, as most Aussies are reacting like they've just lost one of their own family members, and it would be a good chance for everyone to say goodbye.

[Adhesive]

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Au contraire, mon frair.

He was much loved in Australia and, fittingly, his family have been offered a state funeral.

I hope they accept, as most Aussies are reacting like they've just lost one of their own family members, and it would be a good chance for everyone to say goodbye.

My mistake, it is really good to hear differently.

I wonder, though, why every Aussie that I speak to feels they need to bring up the fact that him and Paul Hogan are not celebrated in Australia. It always seemed to me that they were embarrassed by him. Glad to know I was mistaken.

[kurohinge1]

My mistake, . . . It always seemed to me that they were embarrassed by him.

Isn't that the definition of family?

Someone you're embarrassed by but still love.

[GomiGirl]

It always seemed to me that they were embarrassed by him. Glad to know I was mistaken.

Sue me but I never thought much of the shows... perhaps I do have cultural cringe at times but croc wrestling and barra hunting and other things wearing safari suits eating grubs has never appealed to me. The whole Paul Hogan thing makes me ill. I am very proud of where I was born but I do think that there is much more to Australia than crocs and emus and koalas and people tend to forget this.

I am sad that he died as I do appreciate that he has mass appeal and of course I am very sorry for his family that he has died so young.

Has anybody seen the spoofs with Glenn Robbins?? They were great videos.

[kamome]

Sue me but I never thought much of the shows... perhaps I do have cultural cringe at times but croc wrestling and barra hunting and other things wearing safari suits eating grubs has never appealed to me. The whole Paul Hogan thing makes me ill. I am very proud of where I was born but I do think that there is much more to Australia than crocs and emus and koalas and people tend to forget this.

I can understand this, GG. Had there been an ignorant cowboy on worldwide television with violent tendencies, a misunderstanding of the world, who was a kind of walking charicature of an American citizen, I'd be embarrassed too. Oh wait, um.....

[IkemenTommy]

Would we be laughing if his death was all just a hoax?
Of course, we can't be starting some conspiracy theory on here either.

[kurohinge1]

. . . croc wrestling and barra hunting and other things wearing safari suits eating grubs has never appealed to me . . .

Don't knock it 'til you've tried it, luv. ]It's like JFK or Diana for kids: mother[/SIZE]

Steve Irwin had such a profound impact on children that many parents believe his tragic death will be a landmark for kids in the way the deaths of John F Kennedy and Princess Diana were for adults.

Many younger Australians were grieving for the Crocodile Hunter as if they had lost a member of their own family, parents say.

"This guy has been in our lounge room for years," said one Sydney mother who has been consoling her tearful primary schooler since breaking the news the TV wildlife enthusiast had died . . .

She said her nine-year-old son Louis had repeatedly asked, "Is he really dead?" and then cried throughout the evening.

. . . "This is like JFK for kids, or Princess Diana - a young, popular person suddenly snatched away."

Daniel, 11, asked: "Why did it have to be Steve Irwin? Why couldn't it be someone older like Sean Connery?"

"It was as if he was part of the family," said Daniel's father Brian.

. . . He dealt with something most kids love - animals - and he did it in an engaging, enthusiastic, almost childlike way.

"Most adults learn to curb their enthusiasm but kids saw him as an adult who never grew up," said one mother.

"A whole generation of kids grew up with him," said British wildlife author Nigel Marven, "and they love reptiles and snakes.

"His passion got kids interested in wildlife and nature."

"A lot of people presenting television just look at the lens and talk to the glass," said Irwin's producer John Stainton.

"But Steve has a unique ability to get through the lens and talk to you.

"He almost jumps into your lounge room."

Irwin's popularity with kids was compounded by DVD projects like Wiggly Wiggly Safari, when he teamed up with top children's entertainers The Wiggles.

. . . Counsellors have urged parents to take their children's bereavement seriously.

"Parents should give them a chance to talk about their feelings," clinical psychologist Judith Locke told a Sydney newspaper.

Younger children were also saddened by Irwin's demise, even if they had not yet fully grasped the concept of death.

Typical was the response by four-year-old James who, after being told that Irwin had "gone to God", said: "But he's still alive on the TV, isn't he?" . . . more

Poor old Sean Connery!

See also: [SIZE="3"]Aussie 'Superman' brings tears to US chat shows[/SIZE]

[dimwit]

In another piece of news Germaine Greer claim the that the animals were taking revenge on him.

Her comments:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/australia/story/0,,1865124,00.html

The reaction:
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3788753a12,00.html

[amdg]

Killed by a stingray barb through the heart - well, if you have to go, I guess that's got to be one of the coolest ways to go.

I guess his death was not unexpected, but by a stingray? That's a bit like a stormchaser being killed by a falling comet.

[AssKissinger]

He was supposed to have been making a new documentary to have been called Ocean's Deadliest, but, when filming was held up by bad weather, he decided to "go off and shoot a few segments" for his eight-year-old daughter's upcoming TV series, "just stuff on the reef and little animals".

I wonder she'll end up with some kind of fucked up guilt complex.

[Taro Toporific]

[GomiGirl]

Like I said in another thread - he should have worn more sunscreen... better protection from harmful rays.

*insert groan here*

[Greji]

Like I said in another thread - he should have worn more sunscreen... better protection from harmful rays.
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*insert groan here*

Are Wednesdays really that slow for you

[Greji]

Like I said in another thread - he should have worn more sunscreen... better protection from harmful rays.
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*insert groan here*

That was so bad I double posted my answer!

[sillygirl]

Wow! Aussies are taking revenge on the stingrays

http://tinyurl.com/heztp

[Taro Toporific]

I dunno man... he died quickly and he died doing something he loved. .

OFF TOPIC and NOT QUITE DEAD....

[floatl][/floatl]

'Top Gear' presenter in 300mph jet-car crash
The Independent.co.uk, 21 September 2006
Richard Hammond, the television presenter for BBC2's Top Gear, was in a stable condition last night after a jet car he was driving crashed during a land-speed record attempt.
Mr Hammond, 36, was driving at almost 300mph and filming for the motor programme at Elvington air base near York, when the "rocket-powered dragster" crashed and overturned...more....


More wikinews on 'The Hamster'

[kurohinge1]

... Richard Hammond, the television presenter for BBC2's Top Gear, was in a stable condition last night after a jet car he was driving crashed during a land-speed record attempt . . .

That's a great show & he seems like a nice bloke - I hope he recovers well.

[kurohinge1]

[SIZE="4"]First the Crocodile Hunter, then revenge attacks on stingrays, and now this:

Stingray leaps on boat, stabs man in chest[/SIZE]

An 81-year-old man is in critical condition after a bizarre attack by a stingray, which leapt out of the water into a boat and stung him in the chest.

Its poisonous stinger - nearly four centimetres long - lodged close to his heart in an incident similar to the one that killed Australian TV naturalist Steve Irwin last month.

Fire Department officials at Lighthouse Point, about 50 kilometres north of Miami in the US, said James Bertakis was in a small recreational boat with two grandchildren yesterday when the spotted eagle ray leapt aboard and struck him . . . more

And the British have even developed a "Stingray Torpedo":



[SIZE="3"]The War on Stingrays is escalating! [/SIZE]

[American Oyaji]

Ok, now THAT is just plain freaky!!

I suspect Aquaman is behind these two incidents of marine terrorisim.

[IkemenTommy]

... when nature strikes back!

[Mulboyne]

BBC: Bite kills Malaysia 'Snake King'

A snake charmer who made a name for himself as Malaysia's Snake King has died after being bitten by a king cobra. Ali Khan Samsudin, 48, had entered the record books for locking himself in small spaces with hundreds of snakes or scorpions for days at a time. The old adage "once bitten twice shy" simply did not apply to Mr Ali Khan. According to local press reports, he had his first altercation with a king cobra 27 years ago. So when, on Tuesday, one of his subjects inflicted what was just the latest of many bites, he had not been unduly worried. However, two days later, his condition worsened suddenly and his family rushed him to hospital. He died before he could receive treatment...more...

[Mike Oxlong]

Man catches shark bare-handed

An Australian man who caught a 4ft shark with his bare hands says he only did it because he was drunk.

Phillip Kerkhof, 41, says he only realised what an 'idiot' he'd been when sobered up the next day.

The bricklayer had been to the pub for "a fair few vodkas" before going fishing with friends from a jetty at Louth Bay, on the Eyre Peninsula.

When he spotted the 4ft bronze whaler shark, he climbed down a ladder and followed the shark as it swam around the jetty.

Then he stripped off and launched himself into the water.

"It was a bit of a fluke - I just got behind the shark and I went for a big grab," Mr Kerkhof said. "I guess you could say that it was the vodka spurring me on."

After a short wrestle, Mr Kerkhof pulled the shark on to the jetty, to the cheers of his watching mates. His only injury was a scratch where the shark bit a hole in his jeans.

Mr Kerkhof said after sobering up the next day he realised that he had been "a bit of an idiot".

Via Ananova

[Greji]

Man catches shark bare-handed
Via Ananova

Aussie gets sissors hold with his legs on sharks tongue and drags him back to the beach to show him off at the pub.

[Charles]

Man catches shark bare-handed

An Australian man who caught a 4ft shark with his bare hands says he only did it because he was drunk.

Phillip Kerkhof, 41, says he only realised what an 'idiot' he'd been when sobered up the next day.

Now hold on a minute here. I just do not believe this story is true, the facts as stated are beyond credulity. It is unheard of for ozzies to sober up, let alone express regret for their drunken actions.
Now if the story had described how his buddies found him in the morning, grasping a dead shark while lying in a gutter in a pool of his own vomit, perhaps I would believe it.

[kurohinge1]

. . . I . . . express regret for . . . lying in a gutter in a pool of . . . own vomit . . .

There was a hidden message in there!

[IkemenTommy]

dp...
Takechimpo beat me on the post first http://www.fuckedgaijin.com/forums/showthread.php?t=17370

[Greji]

[quote="kurohinge1"]There was a hidden message in there!

]


There is? Where is it? Bet it's between gutter and barf!