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The inevitable finally happens--Steve Irwin dead.
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 The inevitable finally happens. I've enjoyed watching the ebullient Aussie, Steve Irwin (aka "the crocodile hunter") over the years. His quirky humor was infectious but the underlying danger of the stunts kept us coming back. Whether it was facing down a charging bull croc or holding a huge black mamba by the tail, Steve always escaped by the narrowest of margins ... but one knew the odds would eventually come up craps for Mr. Irwin. So it was today. What shocked me was not that he died but how he died: swimming on top of a stingray. Having encountered stingrays in the Caribbean, one is told to stay away from the top side of a ray for they reflexively flip their barbed tails over their back to strike as a defense mechanism. These are, by and large, harmless creatures who have to be provoked to strike. Link to story. The above picture is of a famous incident from a few years back where Irwin took his then infant son into the pen with him to confront a croc. 9-4-2006. Add Comment Permalink
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