Posted on 09/04/2006 2:10:54 PM PDT by GeorgiaDawg32
FOOTAGE of Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin being fatally attacked by a stingray on the Great Barrier Reef has been handed to Queensland police as fans worldwide come to grips with the "freak" death.
Irwin, 44, was killed almost instantly when the stingray stabbed him in the heart with its poisonous 20cm barb as he snorkelled off Port Douglas, in north Queensland, yesterday morning.
His American-born wife, Terri, was trekking in Tasmania's Cradle Mountain and Lake St Clair National Park when the news broke of her husband's death and was last night being raced back to Queensland with her two children Bindi, 8, and Bob, 2.
"The footage shows him swimming in the water, the ray stopped and turned and that was it," said boatowner Peter West, who viewed the footage afterwards.
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Don't hold your breath on that.
Irwin said if he ever died he wanted it to be captured on film.
no doubt it'll show up somewhere..doesn't mean it has to..
Be careful what you ask for.
I wouldn't be surprised if the family releases it. Last lesson stuff.
It will find its way on YouTube before the end of the week.
I can hardly wait for the ghouls to post this on the internet. Steve's death was tragic. He left behind a loving wife and two precious children. I hope his zoo does not close. Things like that should never be made public.
I agree that out of respect for the family it ought to never see the light of day.
Isn't he the one who dangled his infant son in front of a 14 foot croc?
death is as natural as being born .
We tend to hide our minds from death
and celebrate wildly about being born .
(Even though birth eventually leads to death anyway)
However either are rarely filmed....
Showing are not should be the right of the family to decide ,not some media outlet.
Irwin NEVER dangled his son over a croc, he was HOLDING his son (tightly I might add) with his left arm while he threw meat to a croc with his right arm. He caught a lot of public grief about that and acknowledged that in hindsight, he should have left his son outside the croc pen.
It was Michael Jackson who dangled his son "Prince" out of a window over a hoard of papparazi (who are close cousins of crocodiles).
I'm sure that the Queensland police will respect the family's wishes. As a national hero, Steve was respected and loved and I don't think that they would take their stewardship of the film lightly.
BTW, I remember an interview where he said that he was always very careful around animals, because if anything happened "all the little old ladies would say, 'Oh, I always KNEW he was going to be killed'" and he didn't want to give them the satisfaction of being right. Very sad.
Never mind Steve probably had more grip in that one arm than MJ and fifteen of his press agents have in their entire body.
I am completely devastated over this! I just found out in the Hobbit Hole (having been mostly outside all this weekend and today.)
I'm so upset!! I really liked the guy...he really lived, you know?
"stabbed him in the heart with its poisonous 20cm barb"
That's about 8 inches.
You got the impression he was a real hoot. 44 is too young to go, but I think he packed 185 years of fun into it.
"I sincerely hope this film is destroyed and never sees the light of day.."
Ditto. Truly ghastly.
As Steve would say......"Tough break mate."
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