This is such a great thread. For the record, I'm going to Grand Cayman in late Septemeber and part of my itinerary is a "stingray city" dive. Should I meet my maker, I am entrusting in all of you to spread word of my circumspect death. No doubt the Australian government is retaliating against Bush for killing Irwin.

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Originally posted by trancaholic For those of you who haven't already read it, here's Scott Adams take:

Scott Adams is a flippin' genius. I love that man.

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If you like Scott Adams, I think you should read his book "God's Debris - A Thought Experiment"

Fantastic

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"It seems weird to me that the stingray that got him is now the world’s most famous aquatic creature and doesn’t even know it. He’s probably floating around eating kelp or whatever-the-hell stingrays eat, oblivious to the fact that he’s as famous as O.J."

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Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN call me a sceptic, but i havent seen any evidence of the so-called "stingray" that supposedly killed this aussie icon. everyone knows that a single stingray couldnt possibly carry out this feat all by itself. a stingray has never ever before killed a 44yo male australian, either in captivity or the wild. think about it.

If you watch Infowars religiously like I do, you knew it was only a matter of time before Steve Irwin was in the CIA's crosshairs...

The only reasonable explanation as deducted by a coded message in my Alpha-Bits cereal:




Feeling empowered by Tommy Chong's arrest and prison sentence, the US government felt compelled to take out another B-list celebrity - this time for good. After learning of Irwin's upcoming foray into pop music, "Crikey, Let's get jiggy with me stingrays," the CIA trained and armed subversive stingrays off the coast of Aussieland in anticipation of Irwin's scheduled, ill-fated duet.

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Crocodile Hunter's death caught on video
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CAIRNS, Australia (AP) -- 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.

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i don't believe it, the video footage must be doctored.

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Originally posted by tathi i don't believe it, the video footage must be doctored.

people see what they wanna see tathi. you and i, we could possibly find demolition "squids" that couldve been lurking nearby.

haha @ davesz!

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Originally posted by DaveSZ If you watch Infowars religiously like I do, you knew it was only a matter of time before Steve Irwin was in the CIA's crosshairs... The only reasonable explanation as deducted by a coded message in my Alpha-Bits cereal: Feeling empowered by Tommy Chong's arrest and prison sentence, the US government felt compelled to take out another B-list celebrity - this time for good. After learning of Irwin's upcoming foray into pop music, "Crikey, Let's get jiggy with me stingrays," the CIA trained and armed subversive stingrays off the coast of Aussieland in anticipation of Irwin's scheduled, ill-fated duet.

I ran the code, "More fun than a bowl of O's" through a series of high-density cryptographic algorythms. The following anagrams appeared, most likely a hidden message from the hunter himself:

"Fat Foul Horsewoman Nob!"

"Awful Afternoon, Sob Ohm!"

and my favorites...

"Water Buffoon Loon Sham"

"Water Bash Loom Noun Off"

yeah, creepy.

but not as creepy as the little kids on that cereal box.

R.I.P. muchacho.

His death was definately not the result of the all-reaching global powers of the Zionist Mustard Lobby which dominates the world's ocean stringray market in the harvest of the poisionist sting. The same poision used to tranquelize Christian children who's blood is used in their kosher-for-passover line of mustards!

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Australian Government Offers State Funeral for Crocodile Hunter SYDNEY, Australia - Australian Prime Minister John Howard has offered a state funeral for the late zookeeper and TV entertainer Steve Irwin, better known as the "Crocodile Hunter". Irwin, 44, was killed yesterday by a stingray over Australia's Barrier Reef. Irwin was a great admirer of Prime Minister Howard, whom he once described as "the greatest leader in the world". Around the same time, the Australian government paid Irwin $175,000 (Australian) for one day's filming for a 60-second quarantine advertisement. "Not bad for a day's government work", Irwin said at the time. Mr. Howard praised Irwin as the embodiment of the entrepreneurial, self-reliant Australian character. According to the editor of the Australian Guinness Book of Records, Mark Jones, Irwin had a unique career, in which he held the record as Human Being Most Annoying to Reptiles for twelve successive years. A family friend of the Irwins told reporters: "Steve was annoying reptiles since he could crawl - poking snakes with sticks, lifting up rocks to disturb sleeping lizards, you name it". The same source said that it was typical of Irwin that he was always trying to extend his repertoire. "For the last few years, Steve has been trying to get the record for Human Being Most Annoying to Marine Wildlife", a record on which the Japanese whaling industry has long had a stranglehold. Irwin came close to the record in 2004, when he was widely criticized for molesting whales, seals and penguins in Antarctica. An unnamed associate of Irwin said: "Steve must have been close to cracking the record for annoying marine wildlife. Only three people have ever been killed by stingrays, so he must have been really annoying it". In 2004, Irwin was a runner-up for another record, Most Bizarre Act of Parenting, after he dangled his one-month old baby Bob over a crocodile enclosure, but, as always, he was beaten to this record by Michael Jackson. Irwin's family have declined the offer of a state funeral, saying that the modest and retiring Crocodile Taunter would have preferred a quiet private ceremony. His remains will be fed to his crocodiles at the Beerwah reptile park known as Australia Zoo. As the family friend told one reporter: "After all the years of Steve annoying those crocodiles, it's only fair."

(Source/joke?)

EDIT: My Danish media source now claims that this *is* a joke. Anyway, it would be cool if it was true, I think...

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ahhh poor steve, but this thread