>>Steve Irwin "Crocodile Hunter" killed while filming
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>>http://www.rte.ie/arts/2006/0904/irwins.html
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>>One of my favorites TV stars. I always love to watch his movies. :-(
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>He should have stuck to crocodiles and left those sting rays alone.

I thought he was probably poking at it too.
But I heard an interview with a guy who had talked with the camera man that was with him when it happened and he said the ray was, as is common, buried under the sand and Irwin was over it without even realizing. Wrong place at the wrong time.