Monday, September 04, 2006
Sad? Yes. Surprised? No.
Is anyone really surprised that Steve Irwin aka The Crocodile Hunter died of an injury he got while filming a documentary? I hate to put down a dead guy, but I think all of us saw this coming at some point. Be as safe as you want to, but eventually if you fuck with dangerous animals, you're going to get seriously hurt, or even killed. And the thing is that it never really looked like Irwin was really being as safe as possible. He may have just been milking the effect, but it seemed like he was always just running out there fucking with reptiles and other dangerous things.
The bitch of it is that he was killed by a stingray, an animal that almost never kills people. Apparently his is only the third recorded case of a stingray killing a person in Australia's past. The sting of a stingray is usually not fatal to humans, but it was just bad luck because it stung him in the heart.
Well, peace out Steve. I'm sorry to see you go, and I guess I'm sad in the same way that we're sad for people who die of lung cancer and who smoked all their lives.
The bitch of it is that he was killed by a stingray, an animal that almost never kills people. Apparently his is only the third recorded case of a stingray killing a person in Australia's past. The sting of a stingray is usually not fatal to humans, but it was just bad luck because it stung him in the heart.
Well, peace out Steve. I'm sorry to see you go, and I guess I'm sad in the same way that we're sad for people who die of lung cancer and who smoked all their lives.