CRIKEY! Death by stingray (Steve Irwin killed, RIP)

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STEVE IRWIN KILLED BY STINGRAY

September 04, 2006 12:00

THE Crocodile Man, Steve Irwin, is dead. He was killed in a freak accident in Cairns, police sources said.

It is understood he was killed by a sting-ray barb that went through his chest.

He was 44.

He was swimming off the Low Isles at Port Douglas filming an underwater documentary when the incident happened.

Ambulance officers confirmed they attended a reef fatality this morning at Batt Reef off Port Douglas.

It is understood Mr Irwin was killed around midday, Eastern Australian time.

http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,20349541-5001021,00.html

― Hard like armour (Hard like armour), Monday, 4 September 2006 03:39 (eighteen years ago)

It was bound to happen sooner rather than later

― Hard like armour (Hard like armour), Monday, 4 September 2006 03:42 (eighteen years ago)

now he's harassing wild animals just minding their own business in heaven

― ath (ath), Monday, 4 September 2006 03:43 (eighteen years ago)

gosh, always found this guy annoying, but now i'm sad, really tragic. stingrays are deadly, huh?

― timmy tannin (pompous), Monday, 4 September 2006 03:45 (eighteen years ago)

crikey:( RIP

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Monday, 4 September 2006 03:47 (eighteen years ago)

I just overheard my boss say “that ought to convince everyone he was a clown” and “he should have been called the Publicity Hunter”.

― Hard like armour (Hard like armour), Monday, 4 September 2006 03:49 (eighteen years ago)

your boss is a fine comedian, what's he doing with a dayjob?

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Monday, 4 September 2006 03:51 (eighteen years ago)

tell your boss he should write humor jokes for the Jay Leno program if a mean guy was the host (and not Jay Leno)

xpost

― ath (ath), Monday, 4 September 2006 03:51 (eighteen years ago)

My boss is 63 and marking time until retirement. He is kind of scary and seriously lacking the compassion gene.

― Hard like armour (Hard like armour), Monday, 4 September 2006 03:54 (eighteen years ago)

now he's harassing wild animals just minding their own business in heaven

this has been getting funnier every time I read it

― Thomas Tallis (Tommy), Monday, 4 September 2006 03:55 (eighteen years ago)

right theah, theahs a cloud hippo

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Monday, 4 September 2006 03:56 (eighteen years ago)

all sneaking up on peacefully napping phantom zebras and wringing their tails

― ath (ath), Monday, 4 September 2006 03:58 (eighteen years ago)

wow, wikipedia is wicked fast with the updates

"It is possible for ray stings to be fatal if they sever major arteries, are in the pelvic or chest region (such as the fatal wound suffered by Steve Irwin), or are improperly treated."

― timmy tannin (pompous), Monday, 4 September 2006 03:58 (eighteen years ago)

all the irwin fan g00ns at luv2perturbcrocs.au are charged up with shock/sadness and rockstar energy drinks

― ath (ath), Monday, 4 September 2006 04:00 (eighteen years ago)

JAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAFUCK

― SLUTSPIRIA (Adrian Langston), Monday, 4 September 2006 04:01 (eighteen years ago)

SNORT

― Hard like armour (Hard like armour), Monday, 4 September 2006 04:02 (eighteen years ago)

xpost ooh, imagine copping a stingray barb in your pelvic

― Hard like armour (Hard like armour), Monday, 4 September 2006 04:06 (eighteen years ago)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/450000/images/_451560_sting_trudy150.jpg

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Monday, 4 September 2006 04:15 (eighteen years ago)

Trudy knows the pain all too well

― Hard like armour (Hard like armour), Monday, 4 September 2006 04:17 (eighteen years ago)

i guess that i'm the 1st tasteless muthafucker to admit to thinking of that south park episode spoofing steve irwin sticking his finger up animals' buttholes?!?

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 4 September 2006 04:50 (eighteen years ago)

no just the first tastless motherfucker to mention it :-D

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Monday, 4 September 2006 04:53 (eighteen years ago)

I am reminded of Grizzly Man.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Monday, 4 September 2006 05:01 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.news.com.au/common/imagedata/0,,5234738,00.jpg

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Monday, 4 September 2006 05:02 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.benjaminhunt.org/croc.jpg

― SLUTSPIRIA (Adrian Langston), Monday, 4 September 2006 05:05 (eighteen years ago)

lolz

― timmy tannin (pompous), Monday, 4 September 2006 05:07 (eighteen years ago)

I am reminded of Grizzly Man.

OTM. Same mix of inevitability and tragi-comedy. Although, if the Grizzly dude had been killed by, say, a wolverine or a moose or something, the analogy would work even better.

― David A. (Davant), Monday, 4 September 2006 06:31 (eighteen years ago)

nooooo

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 4 September 2006 06:52 (eighteen years ago)

that's pretty fucking sad, poor guy.

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Monday, 4 September 2006 07:14 (eighteen years ago)

His widow was quoted as "Steve always felt he had a sixth sense, and never thought he'd end this way" (this being the way a friend died)

Which is probably why. Don't have a sixth sense, it'll let you down in the end.

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 4 September 2006 07:24 (eighteen years ago)

I am reminded of Grizzly Man.

OTM. Same mix of inevitability and tragi-comedy.

Bullshit. Irwin wasn't mentally ill, or stupid. It was a freak accident. Maybe he took more risks than the average office worker but it's ridiculous to think he was anywhere near courting death.
Did a hell of a lot for wildlife conservation and awareness.

― spectra (spectra), Monday, 4 September 2006 07:34 (eighteen years ago)

RIP :(

I think it's a very good thing that he was a self publicist. The more exposure conservation issues get, the better. So he ran a business at the same time? There are far worse businesses to run. And so he was a bit of a twat sometimes. Aren't we all.

Erk, I sound like CRW.

― beanz (beanz), Monday, 4 September 2006 07:45 (eighteen years ago)

Man, I hope the Baha Men release their "Who Let The Crocs Out" from his movie in tribute.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 4 September 2006 07:47 (eighteen years ago)

I often wondered if his antics were really dangerous or just had the appearance of being dangerous. I guess they really were dangerous.

I found his shtick amusing the first time I encountered it, but never again after that.

― Super Cub (Debito), Monday, 4 September 2006 07:54 (eighteen years ago)

This is very sad. I have no idea what he was really like but he always seemed a pretty good guy and to have a very positive spin on things. My kids loved his shows. I liked what some guy said on wikipedia...

'He's probably done more to change the Australian attitude of "Look! A Snake! Kill it! Is it dead? What sort was it?" then anyone else...'

RIP

― Ned T.Rifle (nedtrifle), Monday, 4 September 2006 08:07 (eighteen years ago)

spectra otm - i mean, this could've happened to any ordinary swimmer, right?

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Monday, 4 September 2006 08:13 (eighteen years ago)

RIP
:(

― Ste (Fuzzy), Monday, 4 September 2006 08:17 (eighteen years ago)

This makes me very sad too.

― === temporary username === (Mark C), Monday, 4 September 2006 08:27 (eighteen years ago)

Colin Thiele dies today...and his death is overshadowed by that crocodile idiot. Isn't Australia just so bloody wonderful?

SO WHO IS GONNA EMBARASS AUSTRALIA NOW? I think this is an opening for ESTEBAN BUTTEZ!!

― Domenico Buttez (ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!!), Monday, 4 September 2006 08:35 (eighteen years ago)

Who needs in depth analysis when you've got the Adelaide Now headlines...

Freak accident: Steve Irwin killed by stingray
Dead: Colin Thiele dies after illness
Army: More troops for Iraq - Nelson
Obesity warning: Children could die before parents
Petrol: Police say pay first then fill
Final fling: Resurrected Crows raring to go
Irwin: Dangerous career ends in tragedy
Show: Twin Flip to be investigated
Coroner: Fatal stabbing inquiry opens
Irwin death: Stingray barb likened to bayonet
Airline collapse: Ansett wages still unpaid
Medibank Private: Costello backs public float
Review call: New show ride laws 'a failure'
Welcome to Live Better '06
Syndrome: Women are always hungry

And I'm not making that last one up...

― Ned T.Rifle (nedtrifle), Monday, 4 September 2006 08:39 (eighteen years ago)

THAT TWIN FLIP IS OUTTA CONTROL

― Domenico Buttez (ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!!), Monday, 4 September 2006 08:51 (eighteen years ago)

who the hell was Colin Thiele?

― Ste (Fuzzy), Monday, 4 September 2006 08:54 (eighteen years ago)

Australian Book Writer.

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 4 September 2006 08:55 (eighteen years ago)

He wrote Storm Boy.

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 4 September 2006 08:57 (eighteen years ago)

AND HE DIDN'T GRAB MR. PERCIVAL BY THE NECK AND SCREAM "CRIIIIIIKEY"

― Domenico Buttez (ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!!), Monday, 4 September 2006 09:00 (eighteen years ago)

Hey, remember when he said John Howard was "awesome"?

Justice!

― Domenico Buttez (ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!!), Monday, 4 September 2006 09:02 (eighteen years ago)

Only just heard about this. Stunned.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Monday, 4 September 2006 10:03 (eighteen years ago)

more like stung ha ha ha

― Domenico Buttez (ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!!), Monday, 4 September 2006 10:07 (eighteen years ago)

he must've used up all his good luck with snakes and whatnot:

Attacks on humans are a rarity - only one other person is known to have died in Australia from a stingray attack, at St Kilda, Melbourne in 1945.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Monday, 4 September 2006 10:11 (eighteen years ago)

that stingray will probably go straight to heaven what with all the good karma from all the poor beasties that steve irwin badgered making his 'documentaries'

― gem (trisk), Monday, 4 September 2006 10:31 (eighteen years ago)

>Attacks on humans are a rarity

The fuck? Attacks on humans are not at all a rarity, at least in Florida. 99% of the time it a sting to the foot when accidentally stepped on, or to the arm trying to remove one from your fishing line. Very very painful but rarely fatal.

I don't know the exact circumstances of the incident, but if Steve grabbed one from behind and pulled it toward his chest, that was extreme willful stupidity on his part. You keep the business end pointed AWAY from you.

― wostyntje (wostyntje), Monday, 4 September 2006 10:41 (eighteen years ago)

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― pgrioden (exeguy), Thursday, 7 September 2006 23:45 (eighteen years ago)

― pgrioden (exeguy), Thursday, 7 September 2006 23:47 (eighteen years ago)

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― pgrioden (exeguy), Friday, 8 September 2006 00:35 (eighteen years ago)

the hell

― ath (ath), Friday, 8 September 2006 00:59 (eighteen years ago)

Australians have been urged to wear khaki on Friday.

(What'll they do when Barry Humphries dies? National dress like Dame Edna day?)

― StanM (StanM), Friday, 8 September 2006 09:57 (eighteen years ago)

we wear Kharki all the time (downunder wear)So if it's for a good cause yeah why not, Something a eunuch like Germaine greer couldnt do.
As for Barry humphries death, a big piss up "Sir Les paterson day" should suffice....

― pgrioden (exeguy), Friday, 8 September 2006 12:25 (eighteen years ago)

I wish the Australian consultant who used to work at my company was still here so I could follow him around saying "I urge you to wear khaki!" all day.

― Young Fresh Danny D (Dan Perry), Friday, 8 September 2006 13:01 (eighteen years ago)

im wearing a plaid skirt :(

― sunny successor (katharine), Friday, 8 September 2006 13:08 (eighteen years ago)

I urge you to wear khaki!

― Young Fresh Danny D (Dan Perry), Friday, 8 September 2006 13:08 (eighteen years ago)

They should produce little khaki ribbons for people to wear on their lapels

― One Man's Mede Is Another Man's Persian (Dada), Friday, 8 September 2006 13:10 (eighteen years ago)

(I finally clicked ont hat BBC link and the headline makes it look like Australians are specifically being urged to wear Steve Irwin's old clothes, which is kind of creepy.)

― Young Fresh Danny D (Dan Perry), Friday, 8 September 2006 13:12 (eighteen years ago)

"This one's got a hole in it!"

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Friday, 8 September 2006 13:24 (eighteen years ago)

Ha ha, of course it's unlikely that Steve was diving wearing his safari suit, loveable eccentric tho he might have been

― One Man's Mede Is Another Man's Persian (Dada), Friday, 8 September 2006 13:25 (eighteen years ago)

I'm afraid that true Aussie legend Peter Brock has passed on, who was dedicated to the conservation of the most worthy of all Australian animals, the Holden. Respect pls.

― S- (sgh), Saturday, 9 September 2006 01:39 (eighteen years ago)

BROCKY!! KING OF THE MOUNTAIN!!

This is easily the bigger national tragedy for Australia :-(

― Eazy-Esteban Buttez (ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!!), Saturday, 9 September 2006 02:09 (eighteen years ago)

I learn much:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Brock

Brock developed an interest in New Age-style spirituality through practitioner Eric Dowker. Brock began publicly supporting, and eventually began to fit to HDT specials, a device called the "Energy Polarizer", containing strong permanent magnets, which, it was claimed, improved the performance and handling of vehicles through "aligning the molecules". The overwhelming majority of the Australian motoring community regarded the device as pseudoscience.[1] Brock also recommended tyre pressures of 22psi (150kPa) for his polariser-equipped vehicles, a level which many regarded as near-dangerously low. Holden, fearing the consequences of being associated with the device, cut ties with Brock and set up an alternative racing/modification operation, Holden Special Vehicles.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 9 September 2006 02:13 (eighteen years ago)

The Polarizer was legendary! Sure, every "bloke" thought that Brocky was being a bit "poofy" with that thing...but personally, I'd sell my soul for a 1985 HDT Polarizer.

― Eazy-Esteban Buttez (ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!!), Saturday, 9 September 2006 02:25 (eighteen years ago)

I urge you to dress polarizedly, Esteban.

― StanM (StanM), Saturday, 9 September 2006 02:59 (eighteen years ago)

Oh so thats it? Steve was trying to fit an energy polarizer to a stingray and Brocky was wrestling gum trees with a Daytona Coupe?

― pgrioden (exeguy), Sunday, 10 September 2006 00:45 (eighteen years ago)

Stingrays found dead, mutilated in Australia after "Crocodile Hunter" death

BRISBANE, Australia (AP) - Up to 10 stingrays have been found dead and mutilated on Australia's eastern coast since "Crocodile Hunter" Steve Irwin was killed by one of the animals last week, an official said Tuesday, prompting concerns of revenge attacks on the normally docile fish.

The popular television star was killed last week when a stingray barb pierced his chest as he filmed a TV show off Australia's Great Barrier Reef, prompting an outpouring of grief in Australia and among his fans worldwide.

The dead stingrays have been discovered on two beaches in Queensland state, including two that were found Tuesday with their tails lopped off, state fisheries department official Wayne Sumpton said.

Sumpton said fishermen who inadvertently catch the diamond-shaped rays sometimes cut off their tails to avoid being stung, but the practice was uncommon.

Michael Hornby, the executive director of Irwin's conservation group Wildlife Warriors, said he was concerned the rays were being hunted and killed in retaliation for the TV star's death.

"We just want to make it very clear that we will not accept and not stand for anyone who's taken a form of retribution. That's the last thing Steve would want," he said.

"I hope everyone understands we have to protect wildlife now more than ever. This is what Steve was all about."

Stingrays are usually shy, unobtrusive fish that rummage the sea bottom for food or burrow into the sand. When stepped on or otherwise frightened, a serrated spine up to 25 centimeters (10 inches) long in the animal's tail flares up.

The spines emit toxins that can kill many small creatures and that cause excruciating pain in humans. Few people die from the poison, but the spines can badly tear flesh and the wounds are prone to infections, including tetanus.

― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 07:46 (eighteen years ago)

Oh you have to laugh, don't you!

Oh wait, message coming through from Steve Irwin, from beyond the grave:

"Mate! Don't do it! It was my fault, the ray didn't see me and thought I was a hostile interloper mate. Leave them! Let the Stingrays go, they are innocent. Mate... Mate... mate..."

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 07:59 (eighteen years ago)

You don't understand, this is a war against stingrayrorism.

― StanM (StanM), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 08:03 (eighteen years ago)

The Daily Star is fake shocked this morning that 'thousands' of people are logging on to 'sick' sites to see Steve Irwins last minutes. And they've even got a still from it to prove just how sick they...er...other people...are.

― Ned T.Rifle (nedtrifle), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 08:18 (eighteen years ago)

Do they provide a URL so you can see for yourself just how sick it all is?

― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 08:19 (eighteen years ago)

No, but you can click to see "Bikini Babe's Winner - See the curvy beauty" - are they writing this stuff in Japanese and then having it translated?

― Ned T.Rifle (nedtrifle), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 08:33 (eighteen years ago)

Funnily enough Irwins own site has a collection of photos of him bloodied but unbowed after a series of close calls, it's a titchy bit gory...
http://www.crocodilehunter.com.au/crocodile_hunter/about_steve_terri/index.html
His site doesn't seem to have been much altered since his demise, 'cept for a tribute page.

― Ned T.Rifle (nedtrifle), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 08:53 (eighteen years ago)

one month passes...

So... are these the pictures then?

http://www.steakandcheese.com/content/homepage/steve-irwin-death-pictures.asp

― StanM (StanM), Saturday, 14 October 2006 06:03 (eighteen years ago)

So that link is a little NSFW.

Heh, and I'm not just talking about the guy getting stuck in the chest by a stingray.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Monday, 16 October 2006 22:51 (eighteen years ago)

2/10

― sometimes my entire life be like DAMNNN! (tehresa), Monday, 16 October 2006 23:25 (eighteen years ago)

It is? My apologies, I didn't have too much trouble there (but then I have a popup killer and an adblocking hosts file).

― StanM (StanM), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 05:00 (eighteen years ago)

man that's just some guy swimming with his shirt on

― ath (ath), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 05:09 (eighteen years ago)

i've seen more gore on an episode of one tree hill

― ath (ath), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 05:10 (eighteen years ago)

fuckers are getting bold!

― A Giant Mechanical Ant (The Giant Mechanical Ant), Thursday, 19 October 2006 11:21 (eighteen years ago)

Help, they will destroy us all!

― chap who would dare to contain two ingredients. Tea and bags. (chap), Thursday, 19 October 2006 12:24 (eighteen years ago)

I await a cheesy sci-fi channel movie on the subject, starring Richard Grieco.

― GILLY'S BAGG'EAR VANCE OF COUPARI (Ex Leon), Thursday, 19 October 2006 12:43 (eighteen years ago)

Is Peter Benchley still alive?

― chap who would dare to welcome our new stingray masters (chap), Thursday, 19 October 2006 12:44 (eighteen years ago)

Yet the 81 year old man lived.

Kudos to Stingrayxploitation cinema.

― gwynywdd dwnyt fyrwr byychydd gww (donut), Thursday, 19 October 2006 12:52 (eighteen years ago)

WHEN STINGRAYS ATTACK

― Edward III (edward iii), Thursday, 19 October 2006 12:52 (eighteen years ago)

WHY ISNT THE DEATH BLOW ON GOOTUBE YET?

― ▒█▄█ ▄▄▄ ▒█▄█ , Thursday, 19 October 2006 12:58 (eighteen years ago)

Crikey! South Park mocks Irwin

http://img.metro.co.uk/i/pix/2006/10/toonirwinSPL_350x450.jpg

― ONIMO has fallen into changing screen name HELL (GerryNemo), Friday, 27 October 2006 09:49 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, thank christ that middle Australia has gotten sand in its collective vagina and started screeching about banning said South Park episode.

At least it keeps them off the streets.

― The Real Esteban Buttez (EstieButtez1), Saturday, 28 October 2006 12:16 (eighteen years ago)

http://static.flickr.com/118/277684965_68475b3a57.jpg?v=0

― gem (trisk), Sunday, 29 October 2006 03:48 (eighteen years ago)

Bill Maher's Halloween costume:

http://img134.imageshack.us/img134/3065/3yfi5c6fg6.jpg

― StanM (StanM), Monday, 30 October 2006 17:18 (eighteen years ago)

b on ts?

― manute lol (sanskrit), Monday, 30 October 2006 17:25 (eighteen years ago)

I saw one of those over the weekend, myself.

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 30 October 2006 17:33 (eighteen years ago)

one year passes...

CRIKEY http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/03/20/stingray/index.html

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Thursday, 20 March 2008 18:18 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/media/photo/2008-03/36972908.jpg

― gershy, Thursday, 20 March 2008 18:39 (seventeen years ago)

too soon

― deeznuts, Thursday, 20 March 2008 19:01 (seventeen years ago)

The spotted eagle ray weighed about 75 pounds, said Becky Herrin, a spokeswoman for the Monroe County Sheriff's Office.

The species, also called a leopard ray or bonnet skate, can measure up to 8 feet in length, with an 8-foot tail, and weigh up to 500 pounds, according to the Florida Museum of Natural History's Web site.

They tend to swim close to the surface and can leap out of the water when being pursued, according to the site.

^^^all of this information is kinda incredible/terrifying

― Jordan, Thursday, 20 March 2008 19:03 (seventeen years ago)

http://216.166.86.110/familydigestshow/images/Photo%20Caption%20-%20The%20One%20Minute%20Dad%20swimming%20with%20his%20children%20and%20a%20very%20large%20Stingray%21.JPG
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― Jordan, Thursday, 20 March 2008 19:04 (seventeen years ago)

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