Steve "croc" Irwin killed

[boudicca]

wtf is the big thing about his wife being American?

For the kind of people who run that website it evidently is

Reasons to be miserable.

[markfiend]

Ken Ham, Pastor-in-chief of Answers In Genesis® Ministries, was born in Australia, but now lives in the States, and writes (and broadcasts daily on the radio) for an American audience. So that might explain him mentioning Terri Irwin's nationality.

And I think that some American fundies do think that they're god's chosen people, yes.

[scotty]

wtf is the big thing about his wife being American? Are they god's chosen people or summit..






















wait a minute that was the Jews..

Nope, that'll be us Jocks

We've all got to go and I s'pose going when you're doing something you love doing is as good as it can get , sad he was so young though

[EvilBastard]

I'm sorry for his wife and kids, no question - it's tough to lose a husband and a father.

On the other hand, while he did do some sterling work for animal conservation, his TV fame came from p*ssing off animals which would rather have been left alone. You really really really have to work at annoying a stingray enough to make him strike - most of the time they shuffle away in the sand. Compare and contrast his work with that of David Attenborough, who in 50 years never managed to get whacked by anything he was looking at (although some of the divers doing Life in the Freezer had some close calls with leopard seals). I'll take his commentary over "Crikey! I've really p*ssed off this african king black mamba '1-strike-and-you're dead' snake - best be careful, eh?" any day of the week.

[markfiend]

I do see what you're saying EB but as far as I know, he didn't even know the stingray was there; it was just a bizarre accident. 9999999 times out of 10000000 someone who swims near a stingray without seeing it will either be ignored or get stung on the arm or leg. Painful but not fatal.

The other stuff, the "let's stick me thumb up this croc's arse to see what he'll do" stunts, a lot of the time he was moving the animals anyway and the cameras were just there. The way he dealt with crocs looks insane but is actually the safest way to handle them.

And "p*ssing off animals" is possibly over-anthropomorphising crocodiles and snakes; the threat display looks like the animal is p*ssed off, but it probably doesn't feel emotion the way a human would; the response is basically "potential threat; hiss and stuff; threat gone; back to hunting / sleeping / mating"

[steamhammerdave]

Agreed, EB - jumping on the backs of crocs who would rather be left alone. Desereved what he got IMO