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Bye bye Mr. Irwin (pg. 3)
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| MikeyN |
| quote: | Originally posted by Stingray
You couldnt find a better pic? :p |
im sure i could have if i really wanted to look :haha: |
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| Abercrombie |
Luv the photochop, Abercrombie approved 
It's sad, he will be missed. However, he never was too careful, was he? Swinging his baby around a croc worse than Michael Jackson, nearly lost his life from a Cobra. Am I the only one who thought 'Darwin Award'?
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| geroin |
| he was playing with fire, it was bound to happen one day |
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| cf2thousand |
I found out this afternoon, and was in a partial state of shock and absolute disbelief.
I keep thinking of his infant son (the one he dangled infront of an alligator), and his poor wife Terri.... Sucks man ! Big time...
This is truly a sad sad story |
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| Dj Smitty20 |
so does anybody know why he was stung? The reports are pretty vague..."he swam over the stingray, etc". I heard it was only the 2nd death from a stingray in Australia's history since they rarely attack anything. He was probably ing with it in some way and was unlucky to get hit where he did since it can usually be treated easily.
He was an entertaining guy though... a bit arrogant and wreckless (that thing with his kid an the croc was silly) but overall, he did a lot of good things for nature. |
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| gek0 |
R.I.P
Just cuz it was bound to happen one day doesnt mean you shouldnt pay your respects ... he did more for animals then we ever thought possible
At least he died with a smile on his faced doing what he loved ! AMEN To that :) |
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| Vivid Boy |
| the only thing i feel bad abt all of this is that he's prolly the only man who ever died who has the whole world saying "i told you so" |
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| Cosmic Fur |
| Can anyone else imagine him saying, "Crikey!" as the barb went through his chest? |
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| Abercrombie |
| quote: | Originally posted by Cosmic Fur
Can anyone else imagine him saying, "Crikey!" as the barb went through his chest? |
Is it safe to post photochops yet? |
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| dEsidEL |
| quote: | Originally posted by Dj Smitty20
so does anybody know why he was stung? The reports are pretty vague..."he swam over the stingray, etc". I heard it was only the 2nd death from a stingray in Australia's history since they rarely attack anything. He was probably ing with it in some way and was unlucky to get hit where he did since it can usually be treated easily.
He was an entertaining guy though... a bit arrogant and wreckless (that thing with his kid an the croc was silly) but overall, he did a lot of good things for nature. |
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Police have been handed footage taken as Irwin, 44, filmed what was to be his last documentary. It shows him swimming above a stingray when it lashed out and speared him in the heart with its barbed tail, manager John Stainton told reporters.
"He pulled it out and the next minute he's gone," he said.
"The cameraman had to shut down. It's a very hard thing to watch because you're actually witnessing somebody die ... it's terrible," Stainton said.
Police said it appeared Irwin was just watching the ray.
"There is no evidence that Mr Irwin was intimidating or threatening the stingray," Queensland police spokesman Mike Keating told reporters.
Marine experts say stingrays can deliver horrific, agonizing injuries from the toxin-laden barbs, which can measure up to 20 cm (8 in) in length and cause injuries like a knife or bayonet.
"It's not the going in that causes the damage, it's the coming out where those deep serrations kind of pull on the flesh, and you end up with a very jagged tear which is quite a pronounced injury," said Dr Bryan Fry, deputy director of the Australian Venom Research Unit.
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Environmental documentary maker Ben Cropp said Irwin was swimming alongside a bull stingray, probably weighing around 100 kg (220 lb).
Stingrays are normally placid and only attack in self-defense. But Irwin's cameraman was filming in front of it and it probably became frightened and lashed out.
Stainton said the cameraman only became aware of the attack when he noticed Irwin bleeding.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060905...lia_irwin_dc_12 |
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