Thursday, October 05, 2006
10:15:00 AM
Steve Irwin - One month after his death
Steve Irwin; The ultimate wildlife warrior
http://www.wbz.com/pages/78655.php?contentType=4&contentId=200093
JackassX: An abstract
Video Captures Crocodile Hunter's Final MomentsKG
Boston (AP) --
Steve Irwin pulled a poisonous stingray barb from his chest in his dying moments, his longtime manager said Tuesday, after watching videotape of the attack that killed the popular "Crocodile Hunter."
John Stainton, his manager and close friend. He said he had viewed the videotape showing the TV star pulling the poisonous stingray barb from his chest. "It shows that Steve came over the top of the ray and the tail came up, and spiked him here (in the chest), and he pulled it out, and the next minute he's gone," Stainton told reporters in Cairns, the nearest city to tiny Batt Reef off Australia's far northeast coast where the accident happened.
Stainton said the video was "shocking." "It's a very hard thing to watch, because you are actually witnessing somebody die, and it's terrible," he said.
The tape was not released to the public. Queensland state police took possession of a copy for a coroner's investigation.
Irwin's boundless energy and daredevil antics around deadly beasts made him a household name as the Discovery Channel's "The Crocodile Hunter," with a reported audience of more than 200 million.
Friend and Oscar-winner Russell Crowe said from New York: "He was and remains the ultimate wildlife warrior."
"We'll never replace Steve," said Michael Hornby, head of the Wildlife Warriors, one of the Irwin family's conservation charities. "He was part of the family, like he came out of the television set and into your living room. That's why there's been such an outpouring of emotion here and around the world.
Everybody thought they knew him."
Jackassx: Truly, another hero has perished.
Would you only treasure someone
only when he's dead?
R.I.P
Steve Irwin - 22 February 1962 – 4 September 2006
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