Is Steve Irwin dead?

[den]

I really hope this is another rumour. There is usually one a rumour per year.

(edit) It's true. Bugger.

Comments

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

Lots of attention for a rumour:
http://news.google.com/news?q=irwin

[daemionfox.livejournal.com]

I've seen two other sources as well. It might be that Death has finally caught up with him.

[zibblsnrt.livejournal.com]

Seems to be confirmed just about everywhere. Blah. :P

[torakiyoshi.livejournal.com]

'fraid not. With stingray poison going straight to his heart, there's no way he could have survived.

As a side note, his wife is a Spokanite. I wonder if she'll be coming home?

Have teh best

-=TK

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

She may keep running the zoo in Queesnsland.

[torakiyoshi.livejournal.com]

*nods* It will be interesting to see what she does. But first, she needs to come back out of the bush to find out.

Have teh best

-=TK

[cabcat.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately it looks like it's true

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,20350156-1702,00.html
Local news is reporting it.

I knew an animal would get him in the end but didn't think it'd be a stingray, they're normally very placid.

[the-lizard-rat.livejournal.com]

It's on Yahoo as well, which is where I read most of my "news". I think this is it for Steve-O, as it were.

I expected that big aggressive croc he first caught to finally get him when his back was turned as a sort of Karma... but a stingray? Seems a bit... of a whimper of a way to go, no?

Lizard Rat out.
Steve Fan in Albany NY

[tropism.livejournal.com]

My first reaction was "Well, shit." My second reaction was: "What a piss-poor way to go. Rightly, he should've been eaten by something."

[bunyip.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it is true. bugger.

[tiado-ab.livejournal.com]

Well, there's a lot of news sites (http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&q=Steve+Irwin&btnG=Search+News) out there confirming his death. It is pretty tragic that his time had to come so soon. I remember watching his show on TV, and thinking, this guy is nuts.

[the-lizard-rat.livejournal.com]

He WAS nuts. But then again, those who aren't don't get anything done...

Crikey, he'll be missed.

Lizard Rat out.
Irwin Fan in Albany NY

[tiado-ab.livejournal.com]

He was nuts in a good sort of way, at least he went out doing something he enjoyed.

[tropism.livejournal.com]

He was nutty, but he wasn't nuts. He knew how to handle animals of all sorts, and when you really know how to handle an animal -- which is in large part a knowledge of how the animal reacts to things -- you eliminate most of the risks.

That being said, I'll miss his "Crikey! Lookit this monstrous bugger! He could bite me in half / poison me in half a second / crawl up my nostril and walk my animated husk around! Let's poke it witha stick!"

[hendikins.livejournal.com]

This isn't a rumour.

Queensland Police Media Release (http://www.police.qld.gov.au/News+and+Alerts/Media+Releases/2006/09/Australian+wildlife+personality+Steve+Irwin+has+died.htm).

[starcat-jewel.livejournal.com]

Damn, I'm sorry to hear this. He may have been nuts, but at least it was a nice, harmless kind of nuts -- too many of the other kind around.

[faeri.livejournal.com]

oh no. ;(

[faeri.livejournal.com]

bbc page about it, too: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/5311298.stm

[zhenzhi.livejournal.com]

bugger :-(

cheers steve.

[weyrdbird.livejournal.com]

Wow. Damn.
What a way to wake up in the morning!
What a way to go:(!

And his form of death is extremely rare. I thought it might be be by Taipan, or maybe Gustav, the giant Nile croc featured in that documentary last year.

"Whoa what an enomous croc! let's taunt him from the boat, maybe he'll swim out and smile at us!"

Well, back to documentaries narrated by Attenbourough.

[tigermorph.livejournal.com]

We were hoping for rumour too...

Devasting for so many in so many ways...