Steve Irwin Dead

Terry

Zane from MTV2 wrote:

http://www.link.removed - the official ''Bring Steve Irwin back to life'' petition, sign it!!!

there comes a time in everyones life when they lose a parent, husband, wife or child. perhaps when this happens to you, you will have a bit more decorum and respect for the dead.

Flork

RIP Steve. I have not felt this bad at the loss of a famous person since John Candy passed away.
You brought a smile to my face. You will be sadly missed, except by crocs. I don't think they are going to miss you

Dave!

4Xcut wrote:

a good man for the environment.

Try not to read into this.

Did the stingray actually pierce his heart? I'm hearing some conflicting reports (eg. I was told that the ray's "sting" shocked him right on the heart, and he went into cardiac arrest)

Dunno...

oRlyYaRly

Zane from MTV2 wrote:

http://www.link.removed - the official ''Bring Steve Irwin back to life'' petition, sign it!!!

On the same day. Oh dear God.

shinzon

Zane from MTV2 wrote:

http://www.link.removed - the official ''Bring Steve Irwin back to life'' petition, sign it!!!

That isnt even funny, if you have nothing to say or nothing constructive or are not offering your condolences then with the utmost disrespect PISS OFF, sorry mods edit or ban me but that is just not on


Shin

iFight

RIP Steve. Was a good man, loved his shows, really funny stuff, and a really really good guy.

Huggles

4Xcut wrote:

Are you seriously taking the p1ss. Can you not understand that a father of two is dead. Do you understand that. His wife and children are now without him and all you can do is make a comment like that. Are you actually THAT....i don't even have words. MY GOD. imagine how you'd feel if someone said that about someone close to you. And don't give me bullsh1t about not saying it to his family....that you would even think that is horrifying........


More on topic:RIP Steve, a great father and husband by all accounts and a good man for the invironment.

Agreed, People saying stuff like that makes me sick as well. To all of those that said they seen it coming, is now really the time to be saying that?

K.O.Kiki

oRlyYaRly wrote:

On the same day. Oh dear God.

Makes me wonder what'll happen when Chuck Norris bites the dust (hopefully in a scenario involving aliens. And ass-kicking) ...

Welp, shame. No more Aussie madness (unless they bring out imitators <_< ) Guess that's one less reason to bother switching on the telly now, too...
Don't mind me, I crack bad jokes to relieve the tension & sadness I feel...

Ruu_Old

I can't imagine how his wife must feel, working with him all the time like she did. I remember when she brought him to the US for the first time, walking around New York in the trademark beige shorts, buttoned shirt and desert boots. He was also describing the trains in New York as some sort of metal underground snake.

kensutz

Zane from MTV2 wrote:

http://www.link.removed - the official ''Bring Steve Irwin back to life'' petition, sign it!!!

Sick ****er

Terry

ok. i'm gonna ban the next person who doles out personal abuse.
keep it ****ing civil, please.

Carcharodon

Didn't feel too much emotion when Princess Diana died or anyone else famous really but i can actually say iam kind of gutted to hear this.
Talk about someone that was both entertaining and made a difference.
Loved watching and reading about him, great character.

Den_M

RIP Steve, found you annoying when I first saw you on tv but soon came to love your quirky nature! He was obviously really passionate about what he did also and a real family man.
I played the part of Steve in a friends video for multimedia class once. Fun times.

Posy

It's terribly ironic that after all his work with dangerous animals he's only the third person in Australia to be killed by the normally pretty harmless stingray. I feel awful for his poor family.
RIP Steve.

ct5amr2ig1nfhp

A true legend. World needs more like him.

RIP Steve.

ambrose :cool:

fade2black

<snip>was posted earlier on and deleted, no point in bringing it up again.Thanks.


I think the kids will definitely grow up to fulfill their dad's legacy and that will be the greatest tribute to him. He lived all 44 of his years to the full though, not many can say that.

JustCoz

What a brilliant entertainer, it's such a tragedy to have lost him

The crocs will miss him too. How many guys can stick their head in a crocs mouth a laugh about it? I will miss his sense of humour.

cashback

It's hard to believe some of the comments posted on this thread. It's very easy to hide behind an anonymous user name and post stupid remarks. I don't think these people ever think of the reality of a situation, of the family left behind and the people who looked up to this man.
"What did he expect??" Maybe we could all expect a bit more respect for himself and his family at this time.
If you have something stupid to say then confine it to conversation with your friends and don't post it for the world to read.

Steve Irwin
R.I.P.

chopster

Gave me (and my family) many hours of enjoyment and education , totally shocked and at such a young age as well . I feel for his wife Terri and two young children having two around the same age as well.

Ironically after dealing with numerous different types of dangerous animal it takes a relatively innoculous looking fish that got him unstuck.

He will truly be universally missed .

Irish-trucker

Me and my family too got many hours of enterainment from Steve ,He'l be missed .
At least he died doing what he loved.
R.I.P Steve

Flukey

The jokes are already starting about Steve Irwin. Someone even had a laugh in his Wikipedia entry. He was just a young man with two young children, killed in a freak accident, ironically not by a dangerous reptile, but by a relatively harmless creature. It seems the stingray was spooked when it saw a camera in front of it and Steve beside it. It turned and it's barb caught Steve directly on the heart, the single worst place he could have been hit. A real case of being in the wrong place at the wrong time. The "what did he expect?" comments do not fit here both in terms of insensitivity, but also in fact. It was just a freak, because of where he happened to be standing at that moment. Had it hit him anywhere else, he would have survived.

Fighting Irish

julep wrote:

ok. i'm gonna ban the next person who doles out personal abuse.
keep it ****ing civil, please.

no free speech? oh i forgot this is boards :rolleyes:




Steve RIP

He is the only person (that is not close to me) who i've felt very sad for when i heard he died

YeatsCounty

I was shocked but not entirely surprised when I learned of Steve's death this morning. The manner of his death did surprise me though, he was just in the wrong place at the wrong time and he did not have this coming to him, as Flukey said.

Rest in Peace Steve. His efforts for wildlife conservation were a testament to who you were as a person, and I really hope that his family, friends and the general public will ensure that his work (along with that of his wife) will continue better and stronger than ever.

nuttz

I was saddened to hear of his death, he seemed like a real character who cared deeply about wildlife and his environment. A loss for TV for sure.

RIP Steve.

BigCon

A state funeral would be fitting alright...

Final moments of 'Crocodile Hunter' Steve Irwin

Cairns, Australia, Sept. 5 (AP): ``Crocodile Hunter'' Steve Irwin was videotaped pulling a poisonous stingray barb from his chest moments before losing consciousness forever, a witness said Tuesday.
The tape of the final moments Monday of the man known by TV audiences worldwide for his infectious enthusiasm in hosting wildlife program ``The Crocodile Hunter'' has been secured by Queensland state police as evidence for a coroner's inquiry.
Irwin, 44, was snorkeling and shooting footage for a new wildlife project he was making with daughter Bindi, 8, for airing next year in the United States when he was fatally wounded off the north Queensland coast.
Irwin's manager and producer John Stainton described the footage, which he had seen, as ``shocking.''
``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.
``That was it. The cameraman had to shut down,'' Stainton said.
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, and ``there are no suspicious circumstances in relation to the death.''
Experts have speculated that the animal that killed Irwin probably felt trapped between the cameraman and the television star.
Stainton said Irwin was in his element in bushland, 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.''
Queensland state Premier Peter Beattie said Irwin, who he described as possibly the best known Australian in the world, would be afforded a state funeral if his family approved.
Irwin's American wife Terri and his children Bindi Sue and son Bob, almost 3, returned to Australia Zoo, the wildlife park where they lived at Beerwah in Queensland's southeast, flying back on Monday night from a trekking vacation in Tasmania state in a private jet.
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.
The park opened Tuesday because it was what Irwin would have wanted, said Gail Gipp, the hospital wildlife manager at Australia Zoo.
``Obviously we're all very devastated,'' Gipp told The Associated Press. ``It is very surreal at the moment. We're are determined to carry on what he would have wanted.''
Irwin's TV shows, in which he regularly wrestled with crocodiles and went face to face with poisonous snakes and other wild and dangerous animals, propelled him to global fame after they were picked up Discovery Channel and shown around the world.
The station's owner Discovery Communications Inc. announced it plans a marathon screening of Irwin's work and will create a wildlife fund to continue his conservation work.
``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 deaths by stingrays _ from up to 17 to just 3 _ though they agreed that such events were extremely rare.
Tributes flowed in from around the world. Australian news websites reported being choked by heavy traffic, newspapers devoted their front and several inside pages to the story and some of Irwin's high-profile friends expressed their sadness. ``He was and remains the ultimate wildlife warrior,'' said Oscar-winner Russel Crowe, who appeared with Irwin recently on ``The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.'' ``He touched my heart, I believed in him, I'll miss him. I loved him and I'll be there for his family,'' Crowe said in New York, Australian media reported.

ondafly

Rest in Peace Steve - you will be missed.

DaDa

Found him hard to watch... but could still admire the energy and passion he demonstrated with his beliefs.

KTRIC

I would like to see a tribute to Steve on the main page of Boards.ie with a nice little picture.



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Just tried to access http://www.crocodilehunter.com/ (steve's homepage) and its so busy it takes ages to load. There's a tribute on the homepage to him.

Idgeitman

R.I.P Steve, One of a kind.