>>>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.
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>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.

One of those stung me when I was a child, in Beni / Bolivia. I must have been in bed for a few days - I don't remember the details too well. It hurts a lot - grown men are said to have committed suicide.

Probably a different species - the BBC site mentioned 70 different species.

Them rays bury in the mud or sand in rivers, and if someone happens to step on them... well, it is no surprise if they get angry.