<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=624 border=0><TBODY><TR><TD style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 15px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 25px" vAlign=top width="1%">Australia Zoo via AP file Steve Irwin, right, and his wife Terri with a giant Galapagos land tortoise at the Australia Zoo. View related photos <SCRIPT>var hasRelatedPhotos = 'true';if (hasRelatedPhotos=='true'){var vRPL = document.getElementById("viewRelatedPhotosLink");if (vRPL!=undefined) vRPL.style.display = "";var vLRPG = document.getElementById("linkRelatedPhotos");var vLIRPG = document.getElementById("linkImgRelatedPhotos");if (vLRPG) {if(vLIRPG) vLIRPG.href=vLRPG.href;}}</SCRIPT></TD><TD style="PADDING-RIGHT: 10px; PADDING-LEFT: 15px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 25px" vAlign=top><SCRIPT>getCSS("3088867")</SCRIPT><LINK href="/default.ashx/id/3088867/" type=text/css rel=stylesheet><SCRIPT></SCRIPT><TABLE class=boxH_3088867 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=152><TBODY><TR><TD class=boxHI_3088867 width="1%"></TD><TD class=boxHC_3088867 noWrap width=*>NBC VIDEO </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><TABLE class=boxB_3088867 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=152><TBODY><TR vAlign=top><TD> </TD></TR><TR vAlign=top><TD class=boxBI_3088867>• 'Croc Hunter' dies Sept. 4: Famed "Crocodile Hunter" Steve Irwin was killed Monday by a stingray in Australia. NBC's Campbell Brown reports. Today show </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE> </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE> <LINK href="/css/html40.css" type=text/css rel=stylesheet><SCRIPT src="/js/std.js"></SCRIPT><SCRIPT>var cssList = new Array();</SCRIPT><SCRIPT>getCSS("3053751")</SCRIPT><LINK href="/default.ashx/id/3053751/" type=text/css rel=stylesheet><SCRIPT></SCRIPT><TABLE class=boxH_3053751 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=300><TBODY><TR><TD class=boxHC_3053751 noWrap width=*> Most Popular </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><TABLE class=boxB_3053751 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=300><TBODY><TR><TD><TABLE class=headlineList2 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD id=boxB_3053751_tab1 style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FILTER: ; BACKGROUND-IMAGE: none; CURSOR: hand" align=middle evented="true">• Most Viewed</TD><TD><IMG height=1 width=2 scr="/images/cleardot.gif"></TD><TD id=boxB_3053751_tab2 style="FILTER: progidXImageTransform.Microsoft.AlphaImageLoader(src='http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/msnbc/Test-Dev/sowmith/shadow.png', sizingMethod='scale'); BACKGROUND-IMAGE: url(/images/cleardot.gif); CURSOR: hand" align=middle evented="true">• Top Rated</TD><TD><IMG height=1 width=2 scr="/images/cleardot.gif"></TD><TD id=boxB_3053751_tab3 style="FILTER: progidXImageTransform.Microsoft.AlphaImageLoader(src='http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/msnbc/Test-Dev/sowmith/shadow.png', sizingMethod='scale'); BACKGROUND-IMAGE: url(/images/cleardot.gif); CURSOR: hand" align=middle evented="true">• Most E-mailed</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR><TR id=boxB_3053751_tab1_c vAlign=top><TD class=boxBI_3053751>• ‘Crocodile Hunter’ Steve Irwin dies • Genetically engineered grass found in wild • Study: Terror prosecutions at pre-Sept. 11 levels • Qatari troops to join Lebanon peacekeepers • Tree-planting promoted to fight global warming • Most viewed on MSNBC.com </TD></TR><TR id=boxB_3053751_tab2_c style="DISPLAY: none" vAlign=top><TD class=boxBI_3053751>• Gene therapy transforms cells into tumor killers • 'Countdown with Keith Olbermann' for August 30 • Iraq's smallest casualties of war • Dad says aching Agassi should stop now • ‘Crocodile Hunter’ Steve Irwin dies • Most viewed on MSNBC.com </TD></TR><TR id=boxB_3053751_tab3_c style="DISPLAY: none" vAlign=top><TD class=boxBI_3053751>• ‘Crocodile Hunter’ Steve Irwin dies • Health experts: Obesity pandemic looms • Light coffee drinking may pose heart attack risk • Genetically engineered grass found in wild • Man lived to 112 on sausage-and-waffles diet • Most viewed on MSNBC.com </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><SCRIPT>pop_pushTabBox('boxB_3053751');</SCRIPT> Updated: 6 minutes ago <SCRIPT language=javascript> function UpdateTimeStamp(pdt) { var n = document.getElementById("udtD"); if(pdt != '' && n && window.DateTime) { var dt = new DateTime(); pdt = dt.T2D(pdt); if(dt.GetTZ(pdt)) {n.innerHTML = dt.D2S(pdt,((''.toLowerCase()=='false')?false:true));} } } UpdateTimeStamp('632929712949700000'); </SCRIPT> 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 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.
From my friend in Australia.. .In a paper there... she is in Newcastle....(and one of the very few women in Oz, fully trained on a Howitzer...) THE CROCODILES ARE CRYING Endless visions fill my head - this man - as large as life And instantly my heart mourns for his angels and his wife Because the way I see Steve Irwin - just put everything aside It comes back to his family - it comes back to his pride His animals inclusive - Crikey - light the place with love! Shine his star with everything he fought to rise above The crazy-man of Khaki from the day he left the pouch Living out his dream and in that classic 'Stevo' crouch Exploding forth with character and redefining cheek It's one thing to be honoured as a champion unique It's one thing to have microphones and spotlight cameras shoved It's another to be taken in and genuinely loved But that was where he had it right - I guess he always knew From his fathers' modest reptile park and then Australia Zoo We cringed at times and shook our heads - but true to natures call There was something very Irwin in the make up of us all Yes the more I care to think of it - the more he had it right If you're going to make a difference - make it big and make it bright! Yes - he was a lunatic! Yes - he went head first! But he made the world feel happy with his energetic burst A world so large and loyal that it's hard to comprehend I doubt we truly count the warmth until life meets an end To count it now I say a prayer with words of inspiration May the spotlight shine forever on his dream for conservation My daughter broke the news to me - my six year old in tears It was like she'd just turned old enough to show her honest fears I tried to make some sense of it but whilst her Dad was trying His little girl explained it best.she said "The crocodiles are crying" Their best mate's up in heaven now - the crocs up there are smiling! And as sure as flowers, poems and cards and memories are piling As sure as we'll continue with the trademarks of his spiel Of all the tributes worthy - he was rough.but he was real As sure as 'Crikey!' fills the sky I think we'll miss ya Steve.goodbye RUPERT McCALL 2006
Mess with Mother Nature long enough and disaster is only impending. He went out doing what he enjoyed. Ric
All very true.....but he is missed tremendously....and they are showing it the way they know how.....each in his/her own way. I hope someone says nice things about me when it's my time..... Heck, just living on a very small barrier island off the coast of Florida is what I love doing, and that , from June through November 1 is taking my life in my hands.....
I can see CRCs obit. 'She was here and now she's gone. Okay guys, now we split the bounty. Arr.' Kidding. It will possibly be shorter. As for the Croc Hunter, well he is possibly rolling in his grave that they didn't catch it on film and put it on tv. You know how he loved the camera.
You need to read up quickly before the 19th.... My treasure is "booty"...Not bounty.. http://www.yarr.org.uk/talk/ http://www.talklikeapirate.com/howto.html#advanced
Not going to happen....We have a fantastic Pirate Club here...We're all about pillaging and plundering and I LOVE it! Hell, everything is this town is either "Pirates" or "Buccaneers"- from the PeeWee footbal team up to the High School..... The Mighty Mighty Pirates! Guess that's what happens in a seaport...that used to be one of the largest in North America....Port still has a thriving industry..and the first offshore shrimping was done here... We are literally surrounded by water....Island runs North and South....bordered by the Sea on one side and the Amelia River on the other..and I can look across and see Georgia and SWFLANT....(Strategic Weapons Facility, Atlantic) where they will neither confirm nor deny the presence of Nuclear Weapons.. (except my ex husband used to buy them from Lockheed for the govt..) And a plethora of stories about the pirates that used to be here...Great stories! Not to mention the oldest bar in Florida...The Palace Saloon... Like the man says..."Yes I am a Pirate..200 yrs too late..The cannons don't thunder, there's nothing to plunder...I'm an over 40 victim of fate.." In my next life...
Aarrrgh! Avast wastin me time reading unless it's something worth putting in the box..you horn swoggling scurvy cur!
That would be belay. Ya wanna be nautical, doan cha? Arrgh, lass!! Get it right, or the plank ye'll waddle.
Anyone see the interview with his wife, Terri? My friend in Newcastle called me this morning (her bedtime) and said she couldn't watch the whole thing... I can't imagine having such a public life...Price you pay? http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,20487786-5001021,00.html The Crocodile Hunter kissed his wife and told her he loved her as Terri and their children Bindi and Robert boarded a plane to Tasmania shortly before his death. "I went to get on the plane and he grabbed me a second time and gave me a kiss," Terri told Ray Martin in an interview aired on Channel 9 last night. "He just embraced me and said 'I love you'. He drove his truck down the runway . . . and stood on top of (it) larger than life, with his arms in the air he waved goodbye. "It was wonderful and Bindi said, 'That's how I'll always remember him standing on that truck'. "He never liked me saying be careful. I remember thinking that for a fleeting moment, I didn't say it. We just said 'I love you'.
I certainly won't judge his wife for wanting to share memories of her husband. However, I'm always amazed that people feel obligated to respond to every question put to them, whether a celebrity or an everyday person.
I watched it. And I didn't sense that she felt obligated. She certainly let some go.....I understand what you're saying and have seen some where I was just dumbfounded, and disgusted. But this one was .....well. Moving. It was a tribute to him, his zest for life...and their love....It didn't feel like an intrusion. It felt like she wanted to share the love of life and living fully , with the world...and to remind us that we're here for a good time...NOT a long time. Just my take on it.