"Crikey! He's a goner."

Last week when I was updating my blog I heard that Steve Irwin had been killed. I can’t believe how many people over the course of this week have asked me if I’d heard or expressed to me the tragic loss it was. Gag me. I got into it with one of my customers. They really liked him and couldn’t believe what happened. I simply explained to them that people watched Marty Stouffer and Jack Hannah because they had cute cuddly animals and it was all warm fuzzy stuff. The Crocodile Hunter was to the Discovery Channel what Jack Ass was to MTV. Nobody tuned in to see Steve and his cute animals. We all stopped channel surfing long enough to see if THIS would be the episode where the croc won. My customer conceded that point. I just think it’s ironic that after poking crocodiles that many times it was a bloody fish that did him in.
The best of the worst lines I’d heard on TV so far was on Fox News. “If he had to die before his time, this is the way he would have wanted to go.” Really? I’m sure young Steve sat around with his friends when he was young or around the bar later in life and though, “You know, mates, if die on the job I just hope some bloody fish stabs through the heart.” I don’t know which was dumber, swimming with deadly animals in boots and khaki shorts or that writer for Fox News.
In my opinion this just brings to reality what everyone knows to be true. Steve Erwin went from the category of animal advocate along the lines of Jack Hannah to the category of moron the likes of Grizzly Man Timothy Treadwell, the guy who got eaten by the bears he “loved”.

Irwin always did preach survival of the fittest… Seems kind of relevant now doesn’t it.

“Famed” blogger,