Steve Irwin, the Crocodile Hunter, is no more. While I feel sympathy for his family, there's some poetic justice in a man who regularly taught his audience that dangerous animals were things to be played with, wrestled and filmed for no real purpose--he had a private for-profit animal park, not a research facility, not a program to save endangered animals--losing his life to an animal's natural defenses. Of course, there would have been more justice in his losing it to a crocodile than to a relatively harmless stingray, but I suppose we all have our achilles' heels. But who will hold his children just out of reach of crocodile's jaws now? Crikey!
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I said they were relatively harmless. Death due to stingray is almost unheard of, but then they almost never get you in the heart.
Actually a lot of the "capturing" his did on his show was to bring endangered species into zoos for breeding programs, and he founded a number of conservationalist charities, including Wildlife Warriors Worldwide, International Crocodile Rescue, and the Lyn Irwin Memorial Fund which benefits the Iron Bark Station Wildlife Rehabilitation Center.
Yes, you're right, I was a little unfair to him. He was in favor of, a founder of and a supporter of a number of conservationist groups. At the same time, though, a good deal of his captures were for his private zoo in Australia and the one he had planned in Las Vegas.
I'm sure that my opinion of him has more to do with my own hatefulness than anything else.
Oh, and his support for John Howard, the greatest living leader.
I'm sure that my opinion of him has more to do with my own hatefulness than anything else.
Nah, he was, on the whole, annoying. But he did some good stuff.
I just get oddly touched when celebrities die. Entertainment Tonight has trained me well.
I can't think of anything more horrible than being a celebrity. I'd have to take all those naked pictures of offline.
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