Seriously, whoa, what?

[thorne_scratch]

Let us pour a forty on the curb for Steve Irwin. Goddamn.

I try not to make too many of these type of entries, but the Croc Hunter merits it. Death by stingray. Through the heart. I mean. Seriously. Goddamn.

Huh. You know, the only people I've done death entries for were the Pope and Steve Irwin. I'm sure that says something about... something.

Comments

[anonymous]

Fuck!

... though, I mean, really, if you gotta go. Wow. That's one you can walk around proudly with in the afterlife.

"Heart attack."
"Liver damage."
"Stingray."

"...?!"

[twigcollins]

Hello, Livejournal. What up?

[thorne_scratch]

It's still mad at you for killing its father.

[twigcollins]

I didn't kill it's father - I AM its father.

[baroness_lamia]

God will have great conversations with him, I'm sure of!

[thorne_scratch]

God will recruit him to wrassle all them crocs in heaven.

I'm sure there's crocodiles in heaven somewhere.

[baroness_lamia]

Sure there are, I guess. Animals are innocents.

[thorne_scratch]

Well, I just figured it wouldn't be heaven for him without animals for him to grab at.

[girlchild]

Apparently, Steve's only the third person in recorded history to have been killed by a stingray. 1337!

[thorne_scratch]

Man, what a thing to go down for. I should check his wikipedia page, but I'm almost too afraid to look.

[squeemu]

Steve Irwin so deserves a death entry. He was always so excited about everything, you couldn't help thinking it was awesome too. And for some reason, I never actually expected him to die from an animal bite. It just always seemed like he knew exactly what he was doing, and the animals knew it too. "Here's a guy that knows how to treat a snake right," I pictured them thinking.

I guess I just never expected him to die period.

[thorne_scratch]

He really does. (I'd give good money to see Steve Irwin hanging out in heaven with the Pope, but that's an entirely different topic. You know they'd get along, though!) And yeah, people keep saying he brought it on himself, he deserved it so to speak, and that he was careless when-- well, I don't think he was. He was pretty good at what he did. Pilots don't bring it on themselves when planes crash; it's usually just buggardly bad luck.

I never expected him to die either. Man.

The icon has nothing to do with the comment, I just want to use it.

[alhazred]

I think his biggest accomplishment was that he just flat-out enjoyed life. They don't make many people like that anymore, if at all. And it's certainly not an accomplishment most people make in this day and age. It's almost an extra notch on the irony that he died doing what he loved...because I seriously doubt the guy was ignorant about the dangers of his job (even if he probably didn't expect a stingray,) and he did it anyway. It takes balls to live outside the trappings of the world like that.

[thorne_scratch]

Exactly. You summed up what I was trying to articulate. I respect a person who does what they love and obviously loves it that much.

What pisses me off is that people are comparing him to the Grizzly Man, and they're really not the same at all.

[alhazred]

I suppose that's inevitable, but seriously, WTF? The Grizzly Man was a total nut job.

[thorne_scratch]

Yeah, it's kind of a bad argument.

Michael is again wary of tentacles.