OMFG! Steve Irwin Has Died!

[DennisAJC]

They asked me to take over his job.

[Jim_Cantore]

So,


I'm going to Outback and ordering "Steve on the Barbi".

[dochummer]

I definately feel sorry for the young family...

[westhillsat]

Feel sorry for the family, but that's how he lived his life
and he enjoyed what he did.

[BlueHUMMERH2]

Bindi's touching tribute

IT was the best Father's Day present Steve Irwin could have asked for - a moving tribute from his eight-year-old daughter telling the world how she loved him "very, very much".

In Irwin's last magazine interview, Bindi told the September edition of marie claire in it's Father's Day special just how much her dad meant to her.

"I love that he's funny, he's entertaining and he's always there when I need him most," she said.

"I'm proud to have a dad like that, who takes on conservation issues around the world.

"I love him very, very much."



For Irwin, the rare father-daughter interview and photo was so treasured he requested all photos from the shoot be sent to him - a series Bindi will now treasure forever.

While Irwin had knocked back previous interview requests, he agreed to the shoot as it was "something he and Bindi could do together," a spokeswoman for the magazine said.

In the interview he said his daughter had inherited his love of animals: "The most important thing in Bindi's life is that she's grown up in a zoo. Bindi's passionate about animals, but she's also into singing, dancing and dress-ups, like any other little girl.

"I'd do anything to spend time with my daughter."

[BlueHUMMERH2]

Stonefish Hunt Lead to Tragedy

According to cinematographer and captain of Irwin's support boat, Peter West, Irwin was the consumate entertainer on Fathers' Day, his last full day alive, sharing tales with his crew to lift them from a despondency about being away from their families.

Mr West, who was working with the famed Crocodile Hunter for the first time, said Irwin only ever had two topics of conversation: "Work and family."

"We were on the boat and discussing how filming was proceeding and listening to Steve's stories," Mr West said.

"It just went into family and he knew I had my first baby at home and that I was missing my first Fathers' Day.

"He was saying how he missed, like all of us, his family and we started trading stories, including how my little girl (10 months old) couldn't yet say dad.

"We all had a great laugh when he said, 'Well, that's better than me because I got called mum, mum for the first month'."

Unknown to Irwin was that his wife, Terri and two children - Bindi, 8 and Bob, 2 - were trying to call him for Fathers' Day.

Irwin did not receive the message sent before his death. Friend John Stainton yesterday said he last spoke to Terri and the children about a week ago.

"We missed a phone call on the boat because communication on the boat was very patchy," he said. "We missed a phone call from her and the children."

However, on the afternoon following Irwin's death, Mr Stainton discovered a text message on his mobile from Terri. "I had an SMS on my phone from her saying that the children send their love, that was all," he said. Irwin had just spent a month with his children in central Cape York's Lakefield National Park catching crodiles for research. Mr Stainton said that Irwin had captured 32 crocodiles in five weeks and was doing "mind-blowing research" on tracking their movements.

"Steve said to me on the boat, on Croc One, at the end of the Lakefield research trip, as we were leaving to go out for this doco, 'John, I've had the best month of my life'. I said, 'Gee, that's a big statement, Steve' and he said, 'No, it's the best month of my life' and that's great."

[Jim_Cantore]

Oh come on, Steve Irwin was a pussy. Only a pussy would die from a stingray. Beside they don't even sting- ghey.

[Geraldo]

I'm doing a story on Steve tomorrow on SpeedChannel. I have a copy of the tape that will be on my website in about an hour. It's an interesting piece.

[Sewie]

crikey

[KenP]

I guess he DID try to swim away, but the little fcker still caught him.

[Big Z]

Originally Posted by KenP

I guess he DID try to swim away, but the little fcker still caught him.

Oh..You're Bad! .LMFAO!

[wpage]

Regretably like Yule Gibbons from Natural Causes!

[GLBLWARMR]

Originally Posted by KenP

I guess he DID try to swim away, but the little fcker still caught him.

Well you would be pissed too if he stuck his finger up your ass!!!

Guess he isn't as fast in the water as he is on land!!!!

[KenP]

They just got his headstone up:

[DennisAJC]

Originally Posted by KenP

They just got his headstone up:

[KenP]

[BlueHUMMERH2]

Poor Steve Irwin.