Steve Irwin The Crocodile Hunter Dead at 44

I agree!

Bandmom wrote:

See, I bet Bandmom won't do this again real soon. :lol:

elims wrote:

Hmmmm. A venomous dart through the heart. That pretty much sums up the definition of "suffering" for me. :shock:

 

I read on the Australia Zoo website under old articles that he and Terri were thinking of having another kid.

He was so excited about getting started with Bindi's new Show on Discovery Kids. Sounds like they were a very close family.

Even knowing that your spouse is in a dangerous profession it would still be hard to imagine getting that call. Gives me new respect for anyone who risks their life for a cause they believe in regardless of what that belief is.

Prayers to Terri, Bendi and Bob.

 

I don't know how many do/don't, but I know the ones off our coast do. I've often wondered about the ones in touch tanks. Made the assumption that the barbs had been removed. Does anybody know?

 

A few years back the wife and I went to one of these tanks and they specifically told us that the barbs were removed. Without the barb they were pretty neat!

 

I've touched them in the tanks before, but always a little leery not knowing for use about the stingers.

My brother was in the hospital for 3-4 days after getting hit in the wrist by one when he was 17. He still carries the scar. Pretty lucky according to the docs based on how close it was to hitting the radial artery in the wrist.

 

Now this one is truly a freak incident

http://cbs4.com/local/marathon.stingray.woman.2.681445.html

 

Hught you dug deep for this thread. I heard about that on the radio.

 

that was very freaky. Couldnt imagine on vacation and something this strange happening, goes to show you never know when your time it up

 

No just pumped "Stingray" into the search engine, and there it was.

Remember it because of the big stink over whether it was a freak accident or not.

 

Do you realize the odds on something like this occuring?

Something a bit queer about this. I have a feeling there's going to be more to this story.

 

I watched this story on the Today show this morning. The chances of something like this happening are very rare. But they did say that 2 years ago in Florida, the same thing happened but the stinger actually landed in the chest of an elderly man but they were able to get him to the hospital and save him. This woman was killed by the force of the ray jumping out of the water.

Jeff Corwin, who was interviewed, said that Stingrays will fly out of the water as a form of defense from a shark. Possibly the shadow of the boat cause it to think there was a shark nearby. Or sometimes they fly out when chasing schools of fish. But he said they'd never really know what caused it to jump out of the water.

 

I thought about this thread when I heard this story,you saved me the trouble of dragging it up. :jester: