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‘Crocodile Hunter’ Steve Irwin dies - Asia-Pacific - MSNBC.com
on September 4th, 2006 - UncategorizedAdd comments
I always thought Steve Irwin would die young - but imagined it would be from something commonplace, like a car accident. But no, he died in a most unusual way.
I couldn’t readily find any stats and human deaths caused by stingray, but I imagine it is remarkably small.
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September 4th, 2006 at 13:43
Well, I read that there is one previous documented death by stingray - and that was in 1945 in Australia. So, fairly rare then. Typical of the man though.
September 4th, 2006 at 13:52
I figured this would be rare. Now I wonder if they’ll ever air any of the special they were filming - not the actual death - that would be creepy. But I think they should at least show the “acceptable footage” they took.
Rob
September 4th, 2006 at 14:10
I bet his last words HAD to include something like: AW, Crikey! That’s gotta hurt !!”
September 4th, 2006 at 14:14
Hah! Tom - nice to see you stop by here. Don’t think I know you, but I’m sure we’re related somehow!
Rob
September 4th, 2006 at 16:30
“as of 1996, worldwide known deaths from stingray barb injuries numbered 17″
From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stingray which has already been updated to mention Steve Irwing’s horrible freak accident.
September 4th, 2006 at 16:34
Well, I’ll assume Wikipedia is right, although it doesn’t rate really high on my “trust-radar”. Sure, I know over time it is generally proven accurate, but I also think that “the one time I rely on it” it will be wrong, because some jackass was entering bogus data!
Rob
September 7th, 2006 at 22:04
All of us must show some respect to this guy who every day presented the wonders of the wild life and made us felt like part of the crew.