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Post by Hobo4lfe on Sept 4, 2006 11:58:00 GMT -5
Steve Irwin, the hugely popular Australian television personality and conservationist known as the "Crocodile Hunter," was killed Monday by a stingray while filming off the Great Barrier Reef. He was 44.
Irwin was at Batt Reef, off the remote coast of northeastern Queensland state, shooting a segment for a series called "Ocean's Deadliest" when he swam too close to one of the animals, which have a poisonous barb on their tails, his friend and colleague John Stainton said.
"He came on top of the stingray and the stingray's barb went up and into his chest and put a hole into his heart," said Stainton, who was on board Irwin's boat at the time.
Crew members aboard the boat, Croc One, called emergency services in the nearest city, Cairns, and administered CPR as they rushed the boat to nearby Low Isle to meet a rescue helicopter. Medical staff pronounced Irwin dead when they arrived a short time later, Stainton said.
Irwin was famous for his enthusiasm for wildlife and his catchword "Crikey!" in his television program "Crocodile Hunter." First broadcast in Australia in 1992, the program was picked up by the Discovery network, catapulting Irwin to international celebrity.
Irwin was married to US-born Terri Irwin and the couple had two children aged eight and three
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Post by The Forum God on Sept 5, 2006 9:21:38 GMT -5
yeah heard that over XM news yesterday. it's how he would want to go.
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Post by Hobo4lfe on Sept 5, 2006 17:07:50 GMT -5
yeah, he knew that one day something like that would have to happen
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Post by The Forum God on Sept 6, 2006 9:42:07 GMT -5
yeah, but that wouldn't stop me. When I get old, I'm so swimming in shark infested waters until one gets me and I blow up my oxygen tank so I can take me and the shark out together.
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Post by Hobo4lfe on Sept 6, 2006 10:32:18 GMT -5
i wanna die doing something fun.. like playing MGS
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Post by Senses Fail on Sept 6, 2006 19:01:19 GMT -5
They got his death on tape. The BBC in London is going to play it on TV. (Expect YouTube to have it at least 3 hours after it airs).
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Post by The Forum God on Sept 7, 2006 9:35:19 GMT -5
yeah I heard that already. I was against it at first, but they actually have footage at one point in his life where he says "if i was to die this sort of thing, I want it filmed"
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Post by Hobo4lfe on Sept 7, 2006 10:29:24 GMT -5
i probably wont watch it, i didnt watch his show
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Post by The Forum God on Sept 8, 2006 9:24:03 GMT -5
indeed
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Post by Hobo4lfe on Sept 9, 2006 15:53:49 GMT -5
you douchebag.. oh well.. YELLOW SAYS HOBACRACY WORKS!
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Post by The Forum God on Sept 11, 2006 9:24:31 GMT -5
not indeed
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Post by Hobo4lfe on Sept 12, 2006 10:39:01 GMT -5
ah.. yeah hobacracy is sweeping the nation
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Post by The Forum God on Sept 13, 2006 9:49:26 GMT -5
if by nation, you mean as far as the case of herpes you have on your toes, maybe
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Post by Hobo4lfe on Sept 13, 2006 10:34:04 GMT -5
see, now we got off topic.. so yeah.. i think this is going no where, might as well go into the pwned threads
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Post by The Forum God on Sept 14, 2006 10:11:48 GMT -5
EVERYTHING'S OFF TOPIC DOUCHE!
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