Did Steve Irwin die in vain?

[Jesus-made-me-do-it]

I was watching the news the day after Irwin died and I was gobsmacked. The man wrestles crocks for a living and dies from a stingray.

And shortly after thousands of stingrays were killed and their tales cut off.

Over 360 million people watch his memorial sevice on animal planet.

Do you think Irwins death will cause more trouble than any of us predicted. I mean its no suprise he was going to get it in the end.

[LazyDrunk]

At 10/12/06 03:24 PM, the-man-who-knew wrote: Do you think Irwins death will cause more trouble than any of us predicted. I mean its no suprise he was going to get it in the end.

Hey, sometimes ya gotta kill off a portion of a species to show it not to fuck with bipeds.

I don't think it'll cause harm beyond tricking people that stingrays deserve some sort of protection extended beyond current wildlife protection laws.

[ImmoralLibertarian]

Goes without saying, but I’ll say it anyway: anyone who kills a stingray in revenge for Steve Irwin’s death is a moron.

It goes against everything he stood for when alive.

Also, like the tracking down of bears that kill people…I find it amusing, and sometimes just sad when people try and place human laws onto animals.

[Eoewe]

I'm sure he died the way he wanted to.

[Spartan517]

People shouldn't worry about it happening to someone again. Only 11 other recorded people in the world have died becuase of a stingray's barb tail stabbing them.

[Ocelot]

Probably not, but there was absolutely no need to kill all those stingrays.

[tre-x]

whenever something like this happens, some jackasses have to take out 'vengeance' on utterly innocent parties, be it a Sikh wearing a turban or dozens of helpless stingrays.

it's just a thing we have to accept.

[defactoidZERO]

At 10/12/06 03:24 PM, the-man-who-knew wrote: Did Steve Irwin die in vain?

No, he just died.

[BeFell]

At 10/12/06 04:05 PM, o-r-i-g-i-n-a-l wrote: Also, like the tracking down of bears that kill people�I find it amusing, and sometimes just sad when people try and place human laws onto animals.

They don't track down and kill bears who harm people to punish the damn things and the motive certainly isn't revenge. Does it not occur to you that perhaps they just don't want something running around with an affinity for killing humans and the strength and ferocity to knock your head the length of a football feild with one swipe of its paw?

A stingray isn't really comparable to this situation though because human contact with them is far more limited. Hell before this happened I didn't even know a stingray could kill a man in that fashion, I always thought they had a poison tip tail or something. A bear on the other hand, those confrontations occur often enough that I have a pretty good idea what a mauling looks like.

[ImmoralLibertarian]

At 10/13/06 12:13 AM, BeFell wrote: They don't track down and kill bears who harm people to punish the damn things and the motive certainly isn't revenge. Does it not occur to you that perhaps they just don't want something running around with an affinity for killing humans and the strength and ferocity to knock your head the length of a football feild with one swipe of its paw?

Then why not wipe out the entire bear population? Because every single one has the potential to kill a human.

[SirLebowski]

Thousands of stringrays? First of all, I don't know what group of people is smart enough to find stringrays, let alone capture and kill them.

And they aren't exactly found everywhere. From what I heard it was a little more isolated. Less than a hundred, far less.

[BeFell]

At 10/13/06 01:13 AM, o-r-i-g-i-n-a-l wrote: Then why not wipe out the entire bear population? Because every single one has the potential to kill a human.

Hippies.

[stafffighter]

How Steve lived is what matters and after the initial shock and idiocy anyone who remembers him will do so for the possitive messege he convayed.

[Alphabit]

That's pretty stupid considering that Steve Irwin himself would rather not kill inocent stingrays... Even if they killed a familiy member.

[defactoidZERO]

At 10/13/06 01:13 AM, o-r-i-g-i-n-a-l wrote: Then why not wipe out the entire bear population? Because every single one has the potential to kill a human.

Hey, why stop there? Why not hunt sharks? And lions, and tigers, and elephants (could happen!)? Hell, lets kill everything but the cows. And then we'll eat the cows!

[Jesus-made-me-do-it]

Also what I don’t get is we hunt and kill animals every day usually for fun or celebration (rarely for survival these days) And an animal kills 1 human the fucking world thinks they owe us a body.

If we killed the amount of people that hunters killed this year half the fucking population would be dead.

[BanonOPeale]

He will be missed.

[SEXY-FETUS]

I believe he died in water with a stinger through his chest.

[ImmoralLibertarian]

At 10/13/06 01:44 AM, BeFell wrote:

At 10/13/06 01:13 AM, o-r-i-g-i-n-a-l wrote: Then why not wipe out the entire bear population? Because every single one has the potential to kill a human.

Hippies.

We can wipe out the hippies after we’ve killed all the bears….then there will be NO ONE to stop our manish non-appreciation of nature!!!

[DaHawaiianRocker]

At 10/13/06 12:35 PM, BanonOPeale wrote: He will be missed.

Holy..

*cough*

Nice prank there, bud.

*falls off the chair, ears hurting*

You make that?

-SC

[JoS]

He might have survived had he not pulle dout the barb. A man was stung last week in canada, just like Irwin, through he heart, but he survived because he didnt pull the barb out.