[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

Fox just showed the clip. The girl on fox asked what is
the name of the boy.
Someone said food.
After feeding the crock he then put the child on the
ground and acted like the 3 month old child was walking.

[arjay]

I suppose I must be the only one who sees little wrong in what Irwin did.

He is from an entirely different culture than we. I suspect his father did the same kind of thing when Irwin was a child in order to get him used to dealing with crocs. Irwin spends his life around dangerous animals and he wants his children to be both comfortable and aware of the animals and their dangers.

He may have been wrong in what he did. I am not ready to pass judgment.

I do, however, give him the benefit of the doubt. He knows exactly what he is doing. He was as much in control as any human can be (which is not total control).

He probably should not have done it, but I certainly don't think it was the "Michael Jackson" type of things people are making it out to be.

[Burn24]

Yes, I saw that, too. He was treating the child like an animated puppet. The whole episode was celebrity showboating - another completely out of touch Hollywood character..

[hotpotato]

After feeding the crock he then put the child on the ground and acted like the 3 month old child was walking.

These type of people are often victims of their own delusional "control." A world-renowned shark expert took Nigel (what's his name) into the water seething with bull sharks with the same attitude as Irwin stating he had nothing to fear. Noted shark expert, Dr. Erich Ritter, has said that he has never been bitten by a shark because he understands shark behavior." All of a sudden, one of them grabbed Ritter and took off a meaty portion of his leg (calf muscle). Dr. Sam Gruber, a shark expert from the University of Miami said in a Reuters news story "He (Ritter) wants to impress people that he can control these sharks and they will never bite him."

Not too long ago, California wildlife author and "bear expert" Timothy Treadwell, got himself and his female companion killed and eaten by a bear. He too believed he was in control. He would ease up close to the bears chanting "I love you" in a high pitched voice and sing to them. He also gave them names. A self-proclaimed eco-warrior, he attracted something of a cult following too. Chuck Bartlebaugh of "Be Bear Aware,'' a national bear awareness campaign, called Treadwell one of the leaders of a group of people engaged in "a trend to promote getting close to bears to show they were not dangerous. Treadwell believed he could teach the public about bear safety.

The world has no shortage of "animal experts in control of the situatation" who are food waiting to happen.