Hello George,

>LL>Steve Irwin.  The Aussie who loved to swim
>LL>with the crocodiles is dead at the tender young
>LL>age of 44, having been stung by a barb from a
>LL>stringray, straight to the heart.

>LL>Steve Irwin, RIP.

GP>May he be spending time comforting the many creatures he loved, who have
GP>been priorly sent to the Great Beyond by man's expansions. . .

Irwin was very much a conservationist and environmentalist.  His
passion was wild animals, and protecting those wild animals along
with the environment in which they lived.

GP>I thought a stingray sting wasn't normally fatal?

Get too close to a bull stingray and see what happens.

GP>What happened?  Was Steve's heart weak?

An eight-inch barb hitting the heart is as deadly as a dagger.

GP>The guy was an oddball, but there's no missing how much he loved
GP>animals!  (his own kid, in the crocodile tank, might've been another
GP>story, who knows?)

His kid was never in danger, according to Irwin.  After all, the
crocodile had already been fed and was heading back into the water...

--Lee


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