Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin dead

[DeFett]

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,20349888-2,00.html

Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin dead
September 04, 2006 02:14pm


THE Crocodile Hunter, Steve Irwin, is dead.

He was killed in a freak accident in Cairns, police sources said.

It is understood he was killed by a stingray barb that went through his chest.

He was swimming off the Low Isles at Port Douglas filming an underwater documentary and that's when it occured.

Ambulance officers confirmed they attended a reef fatality this morning at Batt Reef off Port Douglas.



I can't believe it

 

[Mephistopheles]

CROCODILE Hunter Steve Irwin has died after a string-ray barb caught him in the chest.

The 44-year-old international TV star was swimming off the Low Isles at Port Douglas filming an underwater documentary when the incident happened.
Ambulance officers confirmed they attended a reef fatality this morning at Batt Reef off Port Douglas. It is understood Irwin was killed around midday.
Irwin leaves his wife Terri and young children Bob and and Bindi.
The blonde star of Crocodile Hunter, who made khaki shorts and boots his uniform all year round, was an Australian icon.

But his reptile wrestling antics thrilled overseas audiences even more and he became a fixture on US television in the past decade.
The son of naturalists Bob and Lyn Irwin, Steve learned to live with dangerous reptiles from a young age at the family’s Queensland Reptile and Fauna Park.

He opened his own Australia Zoo in Queensland in 1991, leading him to record the hugely popular Crocodile Hunter the following year.

His catchcry of “Crikey!” brought the unfashionable Aussie phrase back into vogue.

Irwin’s work had a serious side. He was recently made the face of Australia’s quarantine laws and appeared in TV advertisements urging travellers not to endanger Australia’s unique flora and fauna by bringing in foreign specimens.

For all his love of animals, Irwin’s first duty was to his US-born wife, Terri Reines, who appeared by his side from the very first episode of the Crocodile Hunter. In 1998, their daughter Bindi Sue was born and drafted straight into the family business.

A son, Robert Clarence, was born in 2003 and Irwin made world headlines - and suffered a dent on his popularity - when he took the baby boy into a crocodile enclosure, leading critics to accuse him of neglect.

http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,20349541-5001021,00.html

 

[DeFett]

We must of posted this at the same time.

 

[DOG LIPS]

What??????

 

[Tsunulia]

I sit here in shock and awe. The man who took so many beatings from every animal imaginable............... I can't believe this.

 

[Cyclops]

That seems kinda... hmm.... I dunno, something about that seems kinda... not legit, you know?

 

[BeserkerHilf]

Crikey!

 

[DeFett]

I think the news.com.au site is getting too many hits as i can't seem to get much other info on it.

 

[DeFett]

That seems kinda... hmm.... I dunno, something about that seems kinda... not legit, you know?

Yeah it's true. It's hard to believe.

 

[Mister J]

It seems legit. There's a small blurb on the AP newswire.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060904/ap_on_en_tv/obit_irwin_1

BRISBANE, Australia - Steve Irwin, Australian television presenter known as "The Crocodile Hunter," killed in marine accident, local media report says.

 

[Go Web Go!]

Noooo! That's really sad, man. Atleast he died doing what he loved.

 

[vindrow]

Wow...just, wow.

I always thought he would get taken out by a croc, not a stingray. This is quite a shock.

 

[Dew k. Mosi]

No No, it can't be

 

[Lantern Venom]

I feel awful for his family. He had at least one small child that I know of. So sad. Go with God, Steve.

 

[Cyclops]

Well if it is real, that's sad, but... well, the guy dared it to happen every time he went on these little excursions. It was only a matter of time before something got him.

Just glad he didn't go like that idiot who lived with the bears, "The Grizzly Man". That guy was so nutty that he made Irwin look like a well-balanced individual.

 

[Tsunulia]

He had 2 children, a young boy and girl.

 

[Clerk]

And I actually paid to see the Crocodile Hunter Movie too.

 

[DOG LIPS]

Is it confirmed on any bigger news sites?

And I actually paid to see the Crocodile Hunter Movie too.

Hold me.

 

[DOG LIPS]

http://www.cnn.com/

Look at the top.

 

[DeFett]

Is it confirmed on any bigger news sites?


Hold me.

Australia's biggest news website not big enough?

 

[Tsunulia]

I just turned on the CNN news, it just strated and all I've heard so far is about Agasi (sp?) I wonder if they headline it.

 

[DOG LIPS]

Australia's biggest news website not big enough?

Who?

 

[Mr Sparkle]

just confirmed on the local news in San Diego steve Irwin was awesome, and he looked like an actually nice fella. too bad
sad for his wife and child (or children)

 

[GoldenAgeHero]

.....................wow, rip steve irwin. my condolences goes to his family,poor children

 

[Tsunulia]

Nothing so far, something about a manhunt and Bucky Phillips.