>>>>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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>>>Yes. Very sad.
>>>He made a video with the childern's entertainers, The Wiggles, few years back. My kids still like to watch it.
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>>>But some of stunts he use to do on TV, I wondered why he did them. Seems he would take unnecessay risks at times.
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>>There's this southern African chap who's been doing progs aired on Channel 5 over her. Can't remember his name but the prog's called "Adventure Man" or something, where he goes all round the world chasing and handling the most deadly of snakes. He's just as mad as Steve was, just as enthusiastic, even more risk taking (one episode he was on a narrow ledge on a cliff, with a rattler before him and the void behind - he dropped his expensive camera down the cliff when the snake lunged at him). I've seen him getting bitten by a snake on one episode, he's wrestled an anaconda in the river in another.
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>>He's absolutely "away with the fairies" and it's a wonder he hasn't been killed yet.
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>Play with fire and sooner or later you get burned. And not always the way you might have guessed. Steve Irwin made a name for himself messing around with crocodiles and wound up being killed by a sting ray that was sleeping in the sand. Watch out for the trap door .... watch out for the trap door .... ((c) T-Bone Burnett).
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>The news coverage has been unbelievable, the leading story for days now. Pardon any disrespect for the dead but it is completely out of proportion IMO. You would think a head of state or a living legend like Paul Newman or David Beckham had died. It lends credence to the view of the media as a shallow entity that latches onto the story du jour, however important or unimportant, and rides it as hard as it can as long as it can.

Aye, our boys over in Iraq and Afghanistan who've been killed just this week, who've been doing a far more dangerous job, just get a mention of their names, and perhaps a quick interview with a grieving parent.