Mike South On Steve Irwin

[JR]

Originally Posted by 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.

no one thinks he "deserved" to die.

most seem to think that it was enevitable.

he wasn't "just swimming in the ocean" - he was standing in the middle of 10 poisonous rays, made a move for the biggest one and it killed him.

shouldn't come as a shocker to ANYONE.

if it was anyone else doing something similar, they would get a Darwin Award.

a $5.00 crack whore with a heroin needle broke off in her arm, has just as good a chance at predicting the behavior of a dangerous fish as he does. thats why common sense, instinct and everyones innate general sense of self preservation tells you to stay away.

[JohnV]

What's funny is the way peeps always "fight" about their opinions about other people who they really don't know and even funnier is how these other people you're arguing over don't know you or what you think. They get paid to do what they do...in Steve's case, he got paid well to tempt fate....it's simply a numbers game. His family will miss him for sure, but I bet they would never had said, "no Steve, don;t go swim with the fishes ;-)...anyway....

[Peaches]

Originally Posted by JR

he wasn't "just swimming in the ocean" - he was standing in the middle of 10 poisonous rays, made a move for the biggest one and it killed him.

shouldn't come as a shocker to ANYONE.

17 people have been killed by stingrays in recorded history. 21 people died this weekend on the roads of GA. Yes, it IS a shocker that he was killed by a stingray, IMO.

[JR]

Originally Posted by Peaches

17 people have been killed by stingrays in recorded history. 21 people died this weekend on the roads of GA. Yes, it IS a shocker that he was killed by a stingray, IMO.

i dont think its a shocker that a guy famous for doing over the top stuff with dangerous animals, finally got killed by doing over the top stuff with dangerous animals.

stats are irrelevant since a safe guess is that 16 of those people (and most people in general for that matter) didn't seek them out, proudly stand in the middle of them, enthusiastically jumping around, yelling out cute Aussi catch phrases, talking about how dangerous they are as they try to get close to the biggest one.

[tony404]

Originally Posted by Peaches

17 people have been killed by stingrays in recorded history. 21 people died this weekend on the roads of GA. Yes, it IS a shocker that he was killed by a stingray, IMO.

This brings something to mind isn't it funny how numb we are to auto deaths. When some big holiday weekend comes up,the news will say this weekend an estimated 200 people will die in auto accidents and most people instead of being shocked will say thats about right.
Also Mike likes to stir the pot so I wouldn't get to worked about what he says. Steve Irwin lived his life on his terms and for filled his dreams. How many people can say that?
They had on the news someone from the discovery channel and he said viewers want highly interactive animal programs. No one wants to watch animals from a distance. Its just like porn we all know condoms are best for safety but thats not what the viewers want.So we let unsafe practices happen.Are we really any different from Steve?

[gigi]

Tempting fate:

According to you guys, only idiots would become loggers, cops, firemen, racecar drivers, soldiers....especially if one has kids.

Do you smoke?

tempting fate.....yeah, that's it.....bad Mr. Irwin.

[JR]

Originally Posted by gigi

Tempting fate:

According to you guys, only idiots would become loggers, cops, firemen, racecar drivers, soldiers....especially if one has kids.

Do you smoke?

tempting fate.....yeah, that's it.....bad Mr. Irwin.

no.... we live in a free world where you are free to tempt fate and do dangerous shit all day long. however, only an idiot would be in complete and total shock that a race car driver got killed doing 200 mph, surrounded by other cars doing 200 mph.

big difference.

do what you want to do. if you want to juggle chainsaws,... please do so. its your right. just don't expect me to break down and cry when you fuck up and get killed doing it.