D'Oh

[the_gneech]

Y'know all those humor routines about Steve Irwin getting horribly killed while filming a documentary?

Merf. :-`

-The Gneech

Comments

[spasmsproject.livejournal.com]

Oh, shit!

My daughter loves Steve. I don't know how I'm going to tell her.

[kesh.livejournal.com]

Oh god. That's terrible news. :( He was a great spokesman for animals, and a wonderful teacher for kids to learn about the world around them.

[rhanlav.livejournal.com]

Oh ****! Damn... ;_;

[dagucoon.livejournal.com]

very sad... but he died doing what he loved!
btw, it was nice meeting you and MLD at dragon*con!

[klepsydra.livejournal.com]

My friendslist is going into collective mourning, and quite rightly so.

Why the hell was he never invited to be guest at a furry con when we had the chance, eh?

[the-lizard-rat.livejournal.com]

Yeah, why wasn't he?

And why did that only cross my mind *now*, when it's too late?

I always knew (and I think he did, too) that eventually his luck would run out and an animal'd get him --- but a stingray?

(and don't kill me for having an image running through my head of Steve trying to wrangle Tiffany's co-star --- that komodo character.)

I'm just left shaking my head at all this. The world's lost one of its best.

Lizard Rat out.
Fan of Steve in Albany NY

[doodlesthegreat.livejournal.com]

Probably because flying him out from Australia would have been a tad prohibitive in cost...

[klepsydra.livejournal.com]

Eurofurence manages to fly guests in from the US, and it's a much smaller con than the big US ones...

...but it's a moot point now.

[doodlesthegreat.livejournal.com]

Trans-Pacific travel tends to be double the cost of Transatlantic. No shocks, since it's usually also double the distance. Check it yourself. Pick a US city, and do roundtrips from that city to Paris and Sydney. Use same departure and arrival dates & times to make sure it's fair. Then brace for the shock.

[genecatlow.livejournal.com]

Yeah... But how could you not make those kind of jokes knowing the kind of guy he was?

[vverevvolf.livejournal.com]

True... after the mourning phase is pasted we'll probably see a few pics of crocs paying off a stingray hitman then it'll slowly fade away into history.

/.-, VVolf

[http://users.livejournal.com/_litho_/]

Well, he spent most of his life being an idiot around dangerous creatures, it was bound to happen one day. Bit of a shame for the local tourism at Beerwah though.

[kamau-d-lyon.livejournal.com]

Like a couple others on my friends list I couldn't believe it when I heard. On TV he certainly looked like a few cards short of a full deck but that was him being a showman and there by attracting others to the world of animals he loved. He did a lot of good work and educated many people about animals, some dangerous some not.

What I find the hardest to accept is the way he died. Just plain dumb bad luck. A one in a million event and with a creature that truly is not dangerous, at least not by the standard of what he usually played with. Heck I've had rays suddenly come out of cover in front of me in the Gulf (and nearly swallowed my regulator) but with no harm. To be hit, and hit in the heart, I just shake my head at the odds.

He will be missed and the world will be a poorer place for his passing. I just pray for his wife and family and for the causes he sponsored over the years.