Normally, I'd call bullshit ... but -- despite the fact that Rupert Murdoch owns the Courier-Mail -- it is (the second-largest in Australia and) a legitimate newspaper, most of the time.
Would it be too insensitive, at this point, to RACK Darwin?
Lookie, here, see, the way that barb has just shot through me chest! I think I may have to have a call for hospital!
Weird thing is last weekend I was at the Monterey Bay Aquarium and pet a few smaller variants of the stingray in the shallow pool. That variety was almost like petting a cat as they would come up almost out of the water for attention.
How the fuck does he get whacked by a tail unless he fucked with the stingray. He must have spooked it. Always thought a salt water croc would get him.
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 bard 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.
This really sux. I passed up on an easy 54 points in the pool. You just knew that sooner or later some deadly critter was gonna get 'bode on him.
"Bindi is the reason I was put on this earth. All I want to do is be with her and all she wants to do is be with me. We have such a great time together and it's not just a father and daughter relationship, it's also like I'm a big brother and she's my little sister,'' he told New Idea magazine in 2005.
Well, steve, did ya ever think, maybe I ought to stop fukking with deadly critter, as one of them is gonna get lucky, sooner ro later. Too bad little bindi and gator bait bob are gonna grow up dadless now.
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Jack wrote:
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 bard on their tails, his friend and colleague John Stainton said.
I've scuba dived with stingrays in Grand Cayman - a place called Stingray City
Dozens of them swimming around us as we fed them squid.
The lead diver said they were docile (they were) unless you stepped on one.
If you did, you'd get the barb, which they said was painful - didn't hear him mention they were posionous.
KC Scott wrote:
If you did, you'd get the barb, which they said was painful - didn't hear him mention they were posionous.
I think certain species of stingrays are deadly, and others not. Oh who am I kidding?...Let's wait until Dr. Dins and Dr. Van Knows _______ comes in to set us straight.
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No, no new pictures. But it is Labor Day and I'm bored. I was hoping someone with authority would come in and give us some bullshit explanation...and then I could "Croc 'em". You can shame Van, but you can't shame the Dinster.
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It's been reported that Irwin has always stated that when or if something like this happened he would want the cameras rolling. His family is intent on the film getting released.
I will watch.
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