"Well, that went badly!"

[mousme]

I'm oddly saddened by the news that Stever Irwin, the Crocodile Hunter, is dead.

I wasn't a fanatic of his show or anything, but I enjoyed it on television, and I admired the lengths to which he went to promote conservation.

It's not a surprising death, really, but it does go up there in the Annals of Weird Deaths: turns out he was stung by a sting ray during a film shoot, and the barb went right through his chest. He was 44.



Using my frog icon because it's the closest thing I have to a reptile. Amphibians count, right?

:::ETA:::

Holy cow! Everyone's talking about this today!

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I was saddened to hear about his death too, but it wasn't a bad way to go really. He died doing his life's work, he died doing what he loved to do.

I feel bad for his wife and kids, but at least she understood and knew of the dangers that came with the life they led.