http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060904/ap_on_en_tv/obit_irwin

Yeah I heard about this too!

So weird! the guy has been deaing with Aligators, Crocs / etc all his life , but in the end its a bloody stingray that gets him!

Kinda sad, even though you kinda knew that he'd die early.

ahh :( I liked Steve.. he was the type of totally happy with himself person that more people need to be...

I honestly think it serves him right. o.o I didn't like the way he w\was handling dangerous animals with his children in such close proximity. Like I heard he was holding his two day old son while feeding a gator. Then he let his two year old daughter hold some poisonous snakes.

But ya know... He was so obsessed with animals, in a sick way he prolly wanted to go like that. With an animal. I dunno, I just seem to think so cuz he liked playing dangerously all the time with this huge deadly animals. Musta had a death wish.

That's hardly cause to say "Serves him right", Heazure. It's most unfortunate that he has died like this, but he left his mark as a popular icon advocating wild life and nature preservation.

Unortunate, very sad. The world has lost a powerful conservationist icon; say what you will about his methods, the results are hard to dispute.

And not to bring the mood down or anything but...

"He came on top of the stingray..."

I'd be inclined to stab him with my big barb if'n he done the same to me.

Heazure

I honestly think it serves him right. o.o I didn't like the way he w\was handling dangerous animals with his children in such close proximity. Like I heard he was holding his two day old son while feeding a gator. Then he let his two year old daughter hold some poisonous snakes.

But ya know... He was so obsessed with animals, in a sick way he prolly wanted to go like that. With an animal. I dunno, I just seem to think so cuz he liked playing dangerously all the time with this huge deadly animals. Musta had a death wish.

I don't quite understand how you're justified in saying all of that. The guy is probably far more knowledgeable in his field than you are, wouldn't you agree ? Makes sense then that he knew what he was doing, as opposed to your hasty assumptions. Also, he died doing what he loved the most, so I don't see anything "sick" about the manner in which he passed away.

I was very saddened to hear this news. Steve Irwin was a great guy, and I enjoyed watching Crocodile Hunter if I ever caught it on. To trivialize his death in the mind of yourself and the minds of those around you by saying "serves him right", whatever he was doing, is just foolish and rude. Sick, one might call it. He was a human being, and a very nice one at that.

He also died during a freak accident. He was swimming over a stringray hidden on the ocean floor, when it shot out and stabbed him in the chest. He didn't provoke it in any way. He probably didn't even know it was there. I have heard from a friend that news sites are saying it stabbed him through the heart, but he was able to pull the stinger from his chest before he died. Forgive my language, but that takes balls.

The documentary he was filming was for his daughter, and I feel very sorry for her and her mother, who happens to be pregnant.

In the future, please don't make demeaning remarks toward the death of others before thinking about it.

The whole having his baby in the crocodile pen was just a slow media day and them seeking to find some dirt on an otherwise clean celebrity. Irwin and his crew would take a tourist in just as close to the crocs for a show every day and let them feed the animals, but you didn't see that turned into the huge media thing his baby did. But Irwin was always between the croc and the tourist, as well as the fact that the croc in question is so well fed he'd have to suddenly decide to go against his entire nature. That's what they do at Australia Zoo, use what they know of the natural instincts and nature of the animal to put on a safe, enjoyable show. Steve Irwin had more degrees in animals than any of us have probably seen hanging on our doctors walls so I'm inclined to think he knew what he was doing.

I thought it was a bunch of crap then and I still do now that the news and people went so crazy when that happened. You'd have to be insane to not realize he was in control for every second he was in that pen or he'd have never taken that baby in there. You'd only have to watch one of any of his shows and see him with his kids to know that.