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Steve Irwin dies @ 44 (pg. 4)
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| vtec junkie |
| Fires are dangerous.....so fire fighters should stay away from them. That burgler has a gun.....tell the police to stay the away!!!:haha: |
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| tiesto14 |
| quote: | Originally posted by vtec junkie
Yes actually I do think most people are very uneducated when it comes to animals.....that is my point. How many people on TA do you think already knew that a sting ray could kill you.....not too many. |
The chances of being killed by a stingray are so remote....what happened was a freak accident....one should not be more afraid from a stingray then they are from crossing the street...so long as commonsense is used.
| quote: | Originally posted by vtec junkie
How would you know the ing snake was poisonous if it wasn't for people like him?. |
I highly doubt when someone is hiking in the woods that when they come across a random snake do they have the quickness to decipher through the multiple images of different snake kinds that Irwin showed, to make an on the spot quick decision on whether or not that particular snake is in fact poisonous...one with a brain would determine they are not qualified to distinguish the difference between a poisonous and nonpoisoness snake and back away from it.
| quote: | Originally posted by vtec junkie
People like him are not out to disturb animals and take them away from their habitat. People like him are the reason we have conservation forests to protect these animals.....and it's uneducated people that keep taking that away from the animals....thus creating more dandeous encounters with animals. |
You may be right there....but i always saw him pissing animals off to evoke some sort of reaction from them and that is not ok with me.
| quote: | Originally posted by vtec junkie
Sport or no sport they control the over population on them weather they eat it or stuff it and hang it on the wall. |
Again i disagree,,,,,the population (seems we are tlaking about deer here) is not reduced by hunters more than it is by chemicals, fences and many other devices to ward off dear......sport hunters play a roll, yes, but a limited one at best. |
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| vtec junkie |
| I'm patiently waiting for tiesto14's 'Book on Life' :nervous: |
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| tiesto14 |
| quote: | Originally posted by vtec junkie
Fires are dangerous.....so fire fighters should stay away from them. That burgler has a gun.....tell the police to stay the away!!!:haha: |
Big difference between a fireman fighting a harmful fire and a police man chasing a criminal to a man who walks up to an innocent species in it's natural habitat for ratings. |
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| vtec junkie |
| quote: | Originally posted by tiesto14
Big difference between a fireman fighting a harmful fire and a police man chasing a criminal to a man who walks up to an innocent species in it's natural habitat for ratings. |
So another words.....Cave men already knew what to do when they saw a fire???:disbelief |
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| tiesto14 |
| quote: | Originally posted by vtec junkie
So another words.....Cave men already knew what to do when they saw a fire???:disbelief |
this is going nowhere fast:rolleyes: |
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| Shamez214 |
| quote: | Originally posted by tiesto14
I highly doubt when someone is hiking in the woods that when they come across a random snake do they have the quickness to decipher through the multiple images of different snake kinds that Irwin showed, to make an on the spot quick decision on whether or not that particular snake is in fact poisonous...one with a brain would determine they are not qualified to distinguish the difference between a poisonous and nonpoisoness snake and back away from it. |
The point is that he is, in essence, an educator. Not everyone is going to go out and read the millions of books there are out there about animals. How do you think all this information is gathered? Do you think scientists just study these animals from a distance? They have to get up close and personal with them in order to study them. The only difference is that Steve Irwin, Jeff Corwin, etc. do it on TV and scientists just do it to collect the information.
SOMEBODY has to get close to these animals. Otherwise we wouldn't know anything about them. |
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| vtec junkie |
| quote: | Originally posted by Shamez214
The point is that he is, in essence, an educator. Not everyone is going to go out and read the millions of books there are out there about animals. How do you think all this information is gathered? Do you think scientists just study these animals from a distance? They have to get up close and personal with them in order to study them. The only difference is that Steve Irwin, Jeff Corwin, etc. do it on TV and scientists just do it to collect the information.
SOMEBODY has to get close to these animals. Otherwise we wouldn't know anything about them. |
It's like he popped out his mother belly and already knew that Tiesto was god and his favorite number was 14.:stongue: |
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| tiesto14 |
| quote: | Originally posted by vtec junkie
It's like he popped out his mother belly and already knew that Tiesto was god and his favorite number was 14.:stongue: |
Why are you taking this to personal attacks bro? |
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| Konijn |
| quote: | Originally posted by Shamez214
SOMEBODY has to get close to these animals. Otherwise we wouldn't know anything about them. |
there's a difference between getting close for study and observation (like most documentarians) and manhandling dangerous animals like irwin.
yes, documentaries are an incredible source of information, but you don't need to jump on a crocodile, stick your head in its mouth, and poke it in the eye with a stick to learn that its teeth are sharp.
respect to the guy for loving animals and being truly committed to the environment (though he chose conservation over preservation), but he took uneccessary and foolhardy risks.
anyone who works with feral animals is in some degree of danger, but certain people, for reasons ranging from over-the-top exhuberance (irwin) to their own pathologies (timothy treadwell), increase the danger exponentially. [go watch "grizzly man" the documentary about the bear-loving treadwell who was mauled to death, along with his girlfriend, by the subjects he so admired]
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and as for roy who was attacked by the tiger in vegas: you force a tiger to ride tricycles in a funny hat around a casino and sooner or later you're gonna have probs... |
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| dj tek |
| quote: | Originally posted by Konijn
there's a difference between getting close for study and observation (like most documentarians) and manhandling dangerous animals like irwin.
yes, documentaries are an incredible source of information, but you don't need to jump on a crocodile, stick your head in its mouth, and poke it in the eye with a stick to learn that its teeth are sharp.
respect to the guy for loving animals and being truly committed to the environment (though he chose conservation over preservation), but he took uneccessary and foolhardy risks.
anyone who works with feral animals is in some degree of danger, but certain people, for reasons ranging from over-the-top exhuberance (irwin) to their own pathologies (timothy treadwell), increase the danger exponentially. [go watch "grizzly man" the documentary about the bear-loving treadwell who was mauled to death, along with his girlfriend, by the subjects he so admired]
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and as for roy who was attacked by the tiger in vegas: you force a tiger to ride tricycles in a funny hat around a casino and sooner or later you're gonna have probs... |
^^ Truth right there. |
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| Dirichlet |
| I feel bad for his wife and kids... and he was doing something he loved... power to him. |
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