Soulgrind\'s mentor is dead

[Paul2]

Supposedly, they have video footage available (but aren\'t releasing it for obvious reasons) and it was an unprovoked attack. He was merely filming it from above, the stringray turned around and flicked it\'s tail upwards. Steve removed the barb himself and was taken to shore. He was dead by the time the ambulance arrived. On of only 3 other men in Australian history to be taken down by a \'ray.

How sad, and that really does sucks.

do you have a link to the video clip of it?

[Bobs_Hardware]

Supposedly, they have video footage available (but aren\'t releasing it for obvious reasons)

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[Paul2]

oh okay, my english isn\'t that good.  Communication and understanding is probably one of my weaker points.

[CHIZZY]

Your English is a lot better than most people on these boards.

[Living-In-Clip]

IStandByMyOpinionIfYouAnnoyAnimalsEnoughOneWillAttackYouAndProbablyWin.ItReallyIsThatSimple.I\'mSureHeWasAGoodGuyAndJustWantedToHelpTheAnimalsAndWhatNot,ButHePutHimselfAtRisk,WhichIsStupid,SoHeGetsNoPityFromMeForDying.

[Bobs_Hardware]

Well I have the same opinion ("And yes, after all is said and done. He did have it coming to him. You can only defy death so many times before it catches up with you."). You merely conveyed it in such a manner that made it sound like he was receiving his just deserts.

There\'s a difference between running out of luck and getting what you deserved. And saying that it was "no big loss" in such a manner made it sound as though you genuinly believed he hadn\'t contributed to the planet in a positive way at all. Again, there\'s a difference between someones death being "no big loss" and getting "no pity" from a single individual.

Don\'t get frustrated at people mis-interpreting what you say when you have trouble commincating just what you mean in the first (and second) place.

lic, please walk across a busy street several times today.
something is bound to happen.

Well your opinion is spurious at best. You\'re looking at what he has done through jaundiced eyes. Surely you haven\'t become too much of a mysanthrope to see how much utter and genuine good the man has done.

I mean seriously.. you\'re worried about animals being annoyed? Particularly considering the vast amount of times he has wrestled with crocodiles, or captured any other number of beasts was to promote knowledge of said beasties. Or for it\'s immediate health and safety concerns. I\'ve been to his zoo several times, and they never just wrestle an animal for a bit o\' fun. Personally, I\'d much rather be annoyed slightly, then die as a direct result of having broken legs from boat motors and the like.

His passion and love for animals was infectious, particularly to children, and he was genuinly entertaining, as well as informative about important issues. The amount of contributions he has made personally to conservationism, which were vast, surely pales in comparison to his indirect contributions.

This post is by no means a personal attack on you. I just think your opinion of the man is ill-conceived. But you\'re welcome to have it.



He probably could have done it far more tastefully. Nothing against the man, but I do think he was a bit simple in some respects. Naive would be a better word.  He decided to do something that seemed very pertinent and necessary for his family in a public forum, which was a mistake. The dangling was just plain inappropriate and too Michael Jackon-esque.

And yes, after all is said and done. He did have it coming to him. You can only defy death so many times before it catches up with you. Even with such a placid creature as a stingray. Supposedly, they have video footage available (but aren\'t releasing it for obvious reasons) and it was an unprovoked attack. He was merely filming it from above, the stringray turned around and flicked it\'s tail upwards. Steve removed the barb himself and was taken to shore. He was dead by the time the ambulance arrived. On of only 3 other men in Australian history to be taken down by a \'ray.

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[Living-In-Clip]

lic, please walk across a busy street several times today.
something is bound to happen.

And Please Go Fuck Yourself MM.

going to need to try alot harder, bro.

not impressed with the whole "internet tough guy" approach you\'re using lately.

But everyone knows Internet tough guys are the toughest.

:rofl: Sammy

It is a shame he was killed by a freak accident.  This is no Siegfried and Roy accident - that fool deserved what happened to him.  Using animals in entertainment such as those two did was idiotic.  Irwin on the other hand, was a true conservationist - so what he chose to make documentaries that were entertaining in an odd sort of way?  He never instigated the animals like the two \'s did.

He died of a freak accident - the kind of accident that could happen on almost any job or any place one goes like being hit by a car as mm said.  The guy was a good person by all accounts and his death is a terrible tragedy.

you know that the tiger did not attack Roy, right?
it was an attempt to protect him like it would do for its own cubs.
we\'re just alot more fragil then baby tigers.

not that i\'ve ever seen a siegfriend and roy show, but they\'re hardly your typical carnies keeping animals in cages.  those cats live better than most humans.

[Viper_Fujax]

it should have been jeff corwin. At least Irwin was good comedy fodder.

RIP, you insane bastard.

i like corwin, at least how he handles animals and loves what hes doing without going overboard. The producers make him do the corney stuff in between animals, probably to appeal to kids.

As for irwin, i liked him for a couple months, then he just got ADD annoying to me. but i was still bummed when i heard he died.

you know that the tiger did not attack Roy, right?
it was an attempt to protect him like it would do for its own cubs.
we\'re just alot more fragil then baby tigers.

not that i\'ve ever seen a siegfriend and roy show, but they\'re hardly your typical carnies keeping animals in cages.  those cats live better than most humans.

The point I am trying to make is that swimming in the ocean taking pictures of stingray\'s is in theory way less dangerous than say taming tigers to jump through fiery hoops.  One would expect sooner or later a tiger is going to maul its master - swimming over a stingray and getting impaled in the heart?  Who would have thought that could happen?

When my wife first told me died while doing something in the great barrier reef - I immediately thought he got bit in half by a shark or maybe some saltwater croc - I never would have thought it would be a stingray.