Mike South On Steve Irwin

[JR]

Originally Posted by spazlabz

and to add this little note... Steve Irwin did not 'dangle his child' over a croc. I saw the footage, he held 'baby Bob' in his arms, close to his chest while he feed an old croc who had already eaten several chickens prior to Bob being brought out into the pen. There was a large number of people there specifically in case they were needed and while I wouldn't want to be anywhere near Steve Irwin when he was fucking with venomous snakes. I would trust his judgment when it came to safety around crocs any day. Arguably he was the most experienced person on the planet when it came to large reptiles.


spaz

your right. what normal parent wouldn't jump at the chance to take their infant child into an enclosed area with meat eating predators and toss them meat while they lunge at you?

normal. totally normal parental behavior.

HELLO!! experience? huh?
thats one of the dumbest things anyone could say about things to do with a baby.

i am an experienced motorcyclist with an 06' hayabusa (worlds fastest production bike) - wanna know why don't i take infants along for rides? well... hate to point out the obvious, but shit happens. plain and simple. shit happens. the second i do it, i put that infant at risk. unnecessary risk. unnecessary risk with lethal consequences. and what normal person would willingly do that?

please feel free to trust your kids wiht the worlds most experienced heroin addicts. i'm sure they'll be fine. as for myself, i would opt for a little descretion and concern for the safety and wellbeing of the child. thats what any parent would do. hell.. its ingrained in your own genetic programming.

[JR]

here's some animal trivia:

which one of these world reknown experts on tigers is missing 1/2 a face?



another trivia question:

how many "cute, cuddly monkeys" did it take to kill world reknown primate specialist Jane Goodall?

Remember "Born Free" - the show about the woman who devoted her life to studying the lions... the lions that eventually attacked her one day and ate her... because... BECAUSE THATS WHAT FUCKING ANIMALS DO

[MikeSouth]

One thing for sure this topic has proven way more entertaining to me than Steve Irwin ever was...go figure...

[Peaches]

I'm tempting fate more than Irwin did everytime I get in my car and drive (especially on 2 lane twisty back roads) but I still want people to be sad and mourn me and say WONDERFUL things (even if they're lies) about me when I'm gone

Just an FYI, I have a living will, but if I'm a veggie, someone PLEASE make sure my family pulls the plug!!!

[Hammer]

People like Steve Irwin do a great service to the animals of the world.

When I take my daughter's to the zoo, I feel bad for the animals in the cages, but when I get home and my girls get on the computer and start to learn about the animals they saw and want to raise money to protect endangered species, it all makes sense to me.

By the way, anyone that would say that his wrestling a croc is animal cruelty is nuts.

p.s. A woman was attacked and killed by a gator here in Central Florida a couple of months ago. She was jogging on a path near a river. She didn't poke the gator in the eye or try to wrestle it, it attacked her. Not for food either, just for fun.

[Hammer]

My apologies to Mike for the 'asshole' comment, it was out of line. I got steamed when I read the post and lost my usual professional cool.

[squirtingcarly]

I don't usually post, I lurk and then express my opinion to my husband but this really got next to me for some reason.

No one deserves to die for swimming in the ocean. Ted Bundy deserved to die. Tim McVeigh deserved to die. Steve Irwin wasn't a terrible human being, he was doing something that he loved and was trying to educate the world. Right, wrong, crazy it makes no difference. To say he got what he deserved is just cruel and insensitive. That is like saying-You deserved to get hit by that speeding car, you work for DOT. Ridiculous.

The family is the first thing that came to my mind, now 2 children have no dad. A little compassion for them would have been nice, you don't have to mourn Steve Irwins passing but don't say he deserved what he got.

[MikeSouth]

Originally Posted by Hammer

My apologies to Mike for the 'asshole' comment, it was out of line. I got steamed when I read the post and lost my usual professional cool.

No worries Hammer...I been called a lot worse and in truth I can be an asshole and maybe I am on this one. It's OK I can cop to that.

I like to write or speak and make people think about things...or get them passionate.

The funny thing is that what I wrote wasn't incorrect and I suspect few would disagree that emulating Steve in the wild is asking for trouble. Remember the line about leaving only your footprints?

The thing everyone got upset with was because I referred to a dead guy as a dumbass, a dumb motherfucker and a moron and said he deserved what he got.

OK lets toss the incendiary labels. I have seen the mans show I have seen and read interviews with him and he has been bitten, stung, attacked, kicked and everything else many times and he always said he deserved it, so I doubt even Steve would disagree that he deserved what he got...I don't claim to speak for the man but he has generally done enough of it on his own.