Re: Steve Irwin...
 

Now who's gonna catch Reggie the alligator? :(

(I never did hear if Steve Irwin actually made the attempt.)

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To mildly disagree, the movie , although an obvious spoof, played on the irrational, socially LEARNED fear people have for snakes and perpetuates the anti-snake myth.

Otherwise it would be called "Fluffy White Bunnies on a Plane" and nobody would think they were in danger.

WC

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I wonder how long before the video of Steve being killed ends up on You Tube?

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I sincerely hope that it NEVER will. :(

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Oh it will.
Youtube is poorly moderated. They care more about copyright laws than good taste. The comments are out of control.
My brother in law was brutally slurred using the n word repeatedly and that attitude is very prevelent there.
Everybody complains about how tightly moderated this page gets sometimes but Youtube is an example whan there is pratically none. Sometimes it's just not a fun place to go to.

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I heard the video IS NOT suppose to be released to the public, but somehow, it most likely will be released. I do not plan on viewing it, however.

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I heard it was up to his wife whether or not to release the footage.

When I was little, I used to love his show. I'll miss him =[.

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Unless they'd watched The Holy Grail...

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I know these things:
- I know the impact that Steve Irwin had on a shy 5 year old girl who grew up with him on Animal Planet and is now a young woman who has a passion for biology.
- I know what a stingray tail does in defense and what its dagger-like barb looks like from hands on experience
I know that the barb pierced more that one heart and left a widow, two Irwin children and many more to mourn the loss of a life.

Society can be callous and hard, individuals do not have to be. :]

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I heard that one of Steve Irwins last wishes was for the video to be shown to the public. Still, it is up to the family to decide wheather they want to release it or not. (link) It was on the drudge report page, so I am pretty sure it is not a spoof.

Goodbye Steve... the world is gonna miss ya!

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Now, this may be the un-popular opinion, but I feel the need for it to be said. I feel no sorrow for his passing, it was his own fault (whether it be of fluke to a typically harmless animal or not, you can't say you havn't thought he would die from this eventually). He handle animals that are incredibly dangerous for a living, a highly risky job for a reason. Half of the reason that people watched the show was the amazment that somehow he wasn't hurt (or hoping to see him get hurt).
The vast majority of people would not be reacting this way if Steve-O or Johnny Knoxville died in one of their stunts, but it's pretty much the same. Both involve highly risky, life threatening, feats for television.
This man had a wife, and two children, why he continued such a horribly risky professional is beyond me. Beyond that, remember when he took his infant into a croc pen in the Sydney Zoo with him!
He had it coming eventually...

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I did wonder what Steve did to agitate the Ray.
I mean the guy got a Bearded Dragon to bite him! Do you know how hard it is to that?

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Stingrays attack when they feel threatened. If he was swimming over the top of it then the stingray may have whipped his tale up and hit his heart. Or it may have been the he was just under the stingray when it whipped its tail to move. I know the video that the local news is airing of a stingray whipping its tail to gain more speed looks like a powerful enough blow to puncture most anything.

The news just reported that the family is considering airing the footage and said that he "reportedly" pulled the barb out of his chest after he was stung. What truth there is to that statement I don't know, because his partner stated that he most likely died instantly and felt no pain.

I take my tv news with a grain of salt.

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Couple thoughts on this:

On Star trek the klingons make a big deal out of dying in battle, dying with honor - Im no warrior, but if I have a choice of trying something and making a mistake, or sitting home and watching someone else do stuff on TV, I would rather take the risk, even if I lose my life in the process.

I would rather die all at once doing something I love to do, even if it is risky, than to sit and die a little bit at a time, wasting my life doing nothing.

In the end your life will be over, one way or another. Then the only question will be 'what did you do with the time you had?'

as for Steve doing dangerous things... I dont know about all that. He knew what he was doing. Remember Tesla, sitting in his Faraday cage, with 1MV arcs flashing all around it like lightning? He knew what he was doing.

I think the proof that Steve knew what he was doing is the fact that he was not killed by a snake or a crocodile, he was killed by what marine biologists are calling a freak accident. If he had been trying to get a 30 foot great white shark to take a fish from his hand, without a cage, that would be different.

I have known a few people who died while they were "out-there", doing stuff they loved. I know many more people who have died from cancer, traffic accidents, and a couple people who took their own lives out of despair.

It is considered the epitome of bad taste to show videos or photos of a human being losing their life. I hope there is a documentary of his last days, but I dont need to watch him die.

I watched him live. There are lessons here. "Steve was an idiot" is not one of them. He had a passion for nature, and for life, he grabbed hold of it with both hands, and looked it square in the eye.

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I agreed with you to some extent until the Jonnyt Knoxville comparison. I thought that lacked a basis in fact and was out of line.

Irwin was extremely passionate about animals and conservation, that is where the croc hunter thing came from, Capturing wild crocidiles and moving them to safer areas. Eventually as you know this branched into the tv show. If you can find me evidence that shows that the Jackass guys put out that show to further any reasonable cause then I would be glad to withdraw my statement. The excerpt below is a little about what Irwin was doing other than making tv shows read below.

As testimony to their commitment to conservation and the environment, Steve and Terri have purchased over 60,000 acres of wildlife-sensitive land and are working towards the rehabilitation and breeding of some of the world's most endangered animals. At Australia Zoo, they have established a breeding program to help such endangered species as the southern cassowary, koala, giant land tortoise, Fijian crested iguana and Komodo dragon, to name just a few.