Steve Irwin dead.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/TV/0...win/index.html
I believe this was a genuinely nice bloke that really cared about the animals.
Wow! What a shame. Very entertaining fellow - and an avid conservationist.
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So tragic and hard to comprehend that he is gone. Im sure he was probably where he wanted to be though...
~If you cant do it with one bullet, dont do it at all.
~Well behaved women rarely make history.
Great guy..... Prayer for his family. He died doing what he loved.
You are in heaven.
I know my kids are gonna be upset. God bless him and his family.
While it is a tradgedy and I do feel sorry for his family, I can't help but think that it would've been pretty funny if it was a croc that got him!
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geat guy, real - sad he's gone
Sad, but...it's not like you couldn't see it coming.
Can anyone spot the ppl who stop at car accidents to gawk, and those that nod their heads and say a small prayer?
You are in heaven.
I actually don't look, mainly because I'm a selfish prick and don't give a *****.Originally Posted by Amigi'sLastStand
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Yeah... This is the reason I need to take a half year off to hike.
Get back, hammerhead.
In the late 90's we would sit at the 'Pub and Grub' watching this crazy bloke, drinking and thinking, DAMN HE ALMOST GOT NAILED by a "deadly" snake that time and have another round. He was a mad dog, taking chances that we "knew" would end up with his sweet wife being a widow. In the seasons that followed you couldn't help loving him his causes and family - reptile, marsupial or mammal. With all he did to end up dieing from a stingray (stung in a vital organ) is surprising at least....... he will be missed and remembered for his passion of life and work .
I bid him 'G' Day mate and God Bless
In the late 90's we would sit at the 'Pub and Grub' watching this crazy bloke, drinking and thinking, DAMN HE ALMOST GOT NAILED by a "deadly" snake that time and have another round. He was a mad dog, taking chances that we "knew" would end up with his sweet wife being a widow. In the seasons that followed you couldn't help loving him his causes and family - reptile, marsupial or mammal. With all he did to end up dieing from a stingray (stung in a vital organ) is surprising at least....... he will be missed and remembered for his passion of life and work .
I bid him 'G' Day mate and God Bless
Yeah... This is the reason I need to take a half year off to hike.
Get back, hammerhead.
Exactly. Living in a crappy town and working in a *****hole city (atlantic city) tends to take the life out of people. And I mean it when I say that I am jealous of anyone who lives in the middle on nowhere. Hurry up February 2008.
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As sad as it is, he went doing what he loved, instead of old age, decades from now and hooked up to hospital machines.
He surely hiked his own hike to the end.
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I'm gonna miss the guy... I really liked him.
Never criticize a man until you've walked a mile in his shoes. That way, you're a mile away, and you've got his shoes.
Words really fail me. I honestly had to read the headline 3 times because I didn't believe I was reading it right. He always seemed a bit like superman. It saddens me for his kids' sake, but the tenacity with which he pursued his life and passions was enough to inspire Hemingway or Thoreau. He'll be missed.speedy
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Geez, no outpouring of sympathy when Tim Treadwell got killed.
Perhaps, Sly, it's because that while both men took risks, it appears evident that Treadwell's death was caused by wanton recklessness.
Also, at the risk of being unkind, Irwin was a gifted naturalist, a committed environmentalist, an educator, a man greatly beloved by children, and committed family man.
Treadwell, whatever his other gifts might have been, was always viewed, even by his peers and colleagues in the field of bear studies, as something of a nut.
It is inevitable that their deaths would be viewed differently.
Also, Irwin's death is being viewed as a fluke. It was extraordinarily bad luck that he got stung at all, and even worse luck that he got stuck where he did.
Treadwell, on the other hand, simply got too close to bears, which he'd done on countless other occasions.
People whose misfortunes are viewed as bad luck are inevitably going to be viewed differently from those whose demise was caused not by bad luck, but by bad, foolish choices.
A sad day.
I remember coming out of Baxter on Labor Day in 1997 and hearing Lady Di had died. (For me it was only the 10th anniversary of becoming a 2000 miler and the last of my 100 highest to date.)
This will mark the year for many thru hikers.
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