Monday, September 04, 2006
CRIKEY! THAT'S A BIG STINGRAY!
By Stockton
Famed Crocodile hunter, Steve Irwin, is dead.
Friends are understandably shocked at the unexpected death of the Australian. "I never thought it would end this way," said one grief-stricken colleague. "When a guy spends his life jumping onto deadly predators you don't expect this type of thing to happen."
In related news, John Mark Karr released the following statement from Boulder, Colorado:
"I was with Steve Irwin when he died. It was an accident. I loved him very much."
Famed Crocodile hunter, Steve Irwin, is dead.
CAIRNS, Australia - 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.
Friends are understandably shocked at the unexpected death of the Australian. "I never thought it would end this way," said one grief-stricken colleague. "When a guy spends his life jumping onto deadly predators you don't expect this type of thing to happen."
In related news, John Mark Karr released the following statement from Boulder, Colorado:
"I was with Steve Irwin when he died. It was an accident. I loved him very much."
