How do you know he does? Or is that just a statement you make to justify the idiotic comments you have made?
C'mon Fatty, you pansy!! You went about this all wrong. Instead of saying that you had some tasteless comments and trying to justify it with that "God has a sense of humor" crap, you should have just come out and said it! Tasteless humor is OK, but tasteless humor mixed with arrogance is a bad combination. Now, you're pissing off everybody that DOES have a sick sense of humor as well as everybody that doesn't. Trust me, if tasteless humor were cause for BBS banishment, I would have been banned a long time ago. Did you hear that Steve Irwin was once arrested for drug possession? The cops set up a sting operation... See, is that so hard??
He would always be the best victim for parodies; excitingly leaping into danger with no regard for his own safety. God Bless him and his family R.I.P.
duckbilled platypus Very sad that he died - loved his enthusiasm (great post, Sam) & message - but this should be a surprise to nobody. Nature is ****ing cruel like that.
Fatty, this isn't funny. Funny is you driving to Katy to meet a classless stripper and her stealing your class ring. Funny is you getting pulled over for DWI, and suspended licenses on a monthly basis and spending some time in the pokey and then complaining about how unfair laws are. Funny is how abrasive, fat and disgusting your are and then whining about how you can't meet a decent girl while trolling around Midtown. Funny is how awful a university Texas Tech is and how much class their fans have. Get your Funnies straight and who cares if God has a sense of humor or not, your ticket to Haities is already punched, first class. RIP Steve Irwin.
For someone who loves to whine about the maturity of this board, you sure are putting forth a very fine example.
I think pulling it out might have been his biggest mistake ~ the barb probably ripped a giant hole in his heart. ________ 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. link
I think Hatians get a bad rap by rappers and media types; I can't imagine all of them are two bit drug dealers and gangsters the way they are protrayed in movies and rap songs.
I never liked the show, but I also don't like to see people dying before their time. That damn stingray barb looks like a thin Bowie knife. RIP Steve Irwin.
Damn, Fatty. You really shouldn't post when you're that loaded, man. Just unbelievably inappropriate.
Larry King is doing a show about Irwin tonight. He is going to have his friend who was there on. His friend was on AC 360 last night and got pissed when the host (not AC) asked him about the rumor Irwin pulled the barb out before losing conciousness. He was like that's rubbish and I'm offended you would ask me that question.
By not pulling it out may only delay his death, unless he was to be placed on a surgical desk immediately and operated by the most quick-handed and skillful open heart surgeons, under the most optimal condition -- even that doesn't guarantee a survival. I think from now on, people, especially casual tourists, may think twice before they embark on stingray interaction excursion in open sea. I myself had the first-hand experience of being stung by a stringray when I was on a Caribbean cruise just off British Grand Cayman Island, at a popular shallow sea area also known as Stingray City. These creatures are so lovable and innocuous that you would forget completely they can be deadly in some extremely freakish circumstances such as the one that sealed the fate of Steve Irwin. Luckily for me though, I "only" stepped onto the tail of a stingray due to carelessness. I didn't have much bleeding because of mostly protective thick (dead) skin layers but my foot sure hurt like hell and the salty seawater didn't help at all to ease the pain. If I do another cruise, I think I am going to be very nervous and intensely cautious about the close interaction with stingrays. At least I'll make sure my chest area and my balls are not in the direction any stingray barbs.
BRISBANE, Australia (CNN) -- Videotape of Australian "Crocodile Hunter" Steve Irwin shows him pulling a deadly stingray barb from his chest just before he died. Irwin's manager John Stainton said Irwin was being videotaped diving on a reef off Australia's northeast coast for a television show. He told Australia's Network 10 that Irwin managed to pull the barb out of his chest but said it was too late, as the poison had already entered his body. Irwin went into cardiac arrest within moments, news reports said. Stainton described the footage of his friend dying as "terrible." (Watch Stainton describe Irwin's last moments -- 2:20) "It shows that Steve came over the top of the ray and the tail came up, and spiked him (in the chest), and he pulled it out and the next minute he's gone," Stainton said. (Watch how a stingray strikes -- 2:35 ) "That was it. The cameraman had to shut down (after that)," Stainton said. Stainton will talk more about the footage on "Larry King Live" tonight at 9 ET. Cardiac arrest is not listed as a usual symptom of a stingray's sting in Medline Plus, the online medical encyclopedia of the National Institutes of Health and the U.S. National Library of Medicine. But they note that although most victims recover within 48 hours, "death has occurred when the patient's chest or abdomen was punctured." Irwin's body was flown to the city of Cairns. As fellow countrymen and fans from around the world mourned his death, it was announced that a state funeral for Irwin would be held if his family so chose, an Australian state premier said. "We will honor Steve Irwin in whatever way his family wants," said Queensland Premier Peter Beattie, speaking to CNN affiliate Channel Seven. "We will approach the family and we would obviously be keen to honor him in some sort of way from the Queensland Government point of view, from the state's point of view, but we would only do that with the family's approval." For the past week, Irwin, 44, had been working on an underwater documentary at Batt Reef in the Great Barrier Reef off Port Douglas in Queensland state. Bad weather for the past few days had made it impossible to proceed with a planned taping for the Animal Planet channel, so Irwin instead chose Monday to shoot "a couple of soft stories for a new TV show we're doing," Stainton said. "He and the underwater cameraman went out to do some pieces on the reef and coral and stuff good for the kids' show and, unfortunately, he came out over the top of a stingray that was buried in the sand and the barb went up and hit him in the chest." Rescuers put Irwin aboard his research vessel, Croc 1, and attempted to resuscitate him during the 30-minute dash to nearby Lowe Isle, where a medical helicopter was available to take him to a hospital, but the effort proved futile. Irwin was director of the Australia Zoo, a major tourist attraction which he developed from his parents' small crocodile farm, in Queensland. He is survived by his American-born wife, Terri, and their two children, Bindi Sue, 8, and Robert (Bob), 3. Terri Irwin was told of her husband's death while on a walking tour in Tasmania, and returned Monday night to the Sunshine Coast with the children. 'There's always a risk' "It's just one of these bizarre events that really make you take stock of your life," Animal Planet host Jeff Corwin told CNN. "The reality is, there's always a risk when you work with wildlife. You do your best to take precautions." "It was just one of those things. It was absolutely a fluke," Corwin added. (Watch the controversy over whether ratings are driving wildlife programs to go too far -- 2:50) Fellow animal handler and conservationist Jack Hanna said, "It's a tragic thing. It's unbelievable, really. When you think of Steve Irwin, you think of people who are invincible." Hanna agreed with Corwin that the accident underscores the danger of working with wild animals. "Ninety-nine percent of the time, when someone is hurt by an animal, it is your fault," he said. "You have to be careful of that. You have to know what your limits are. What that animal is. "People use the word dangerous and that sometimes is a word that's not fair to that animal because the animal has been given the defenses that God gave it, so you have to understand what all that is involved and if you understand that, hopefully nothing will happen." Irwin's exuberant approach to nature conservation and the environment also won him a global following, and he and his wife became well-known figures on international television. TV viewers loved and admired his enthusiasm, fearlessness, and outlandish stunts with dangerous animals, although one incident generated controversy. Many viewers were upset with him two years ago when he held out his infant son while feeding a snapping crocodile at his zoo. In 2003, Irwin spoke to the Australian Broadcasting Corp.'s Australian Story television program about how he was perceived in his home country. "When I see what's happened all over the world, they're looking at me as this very popular, wildlife warrior Australian bloke," he said. "And yet back here in my own country, some people find me a little bit embarrassing. You know, there's this -- they kind of cringe, you know, 'cause I'm coming out with 'crikey' and 'look at this beauty.'" (Watch what Irwin meant to Australia -- 2:49) Irwin popularized the term "crikey." Fund may be established Discovery Communications, which produces Animal Planet, said it was considering setting up a fund that would accept donations in Irwin's name to support wildlife protection, education, conservation, Irwin's zoo and the education of his children. A sensory garden located outside the company's Silver Spring, Maryland, headquarters will be renamed in his honor, said Annie Howell, senior vice president of communications for Discovery Communications. Animal Planet will air a tribute to Irwin at 6 p.m. ET Tuesday, Maureen Smith, Animal Planet's executive vice president and general manager, said. The channel will continue to run Irwin's shows. At the Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta, Georgia, which has an exhibit where people can safely touch stingrays, marine biologist Ray Davis said stingray barbs are serrated, can reach 12 inches in length and are used as a defensive mechanism. "The stingray swings its tail up over its back; the barb is then not really laying against the tail but comes out a bit and allows them to slash or jab to try and get the predator away from them." Once the barb has pierced the skin, it injects venom, which can be excruciatingly painful, said the vice president of zoological operations, who said he was speaking from experience. "It can be very crippling," he said. But fish venom is heat-sensitive, and relief is almost immediate once the affected area is immersed in near-scalding water, he said. http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/TV/09/05/irwin.death/index.html What a terrible thing for his crew to watch, not to mention his family.
