CAIRNS, Australia (AP) -- "Steve Irwin, the hugely popular Australian television personality and conservationist known as the "Crocodile Hunter," was killed Monday by a stingray while filming off the Great Barrier Reef. He was 44.
Irwin was at Batt Reef, off the remote coast of northeastern Queensland state, shooting a segment for a series called "Ocean's Deadliest" when he swam too close to one of the animals, which have a poisonous bard on their tails, his friend and colleague John Stainton said.
"He came on top of the stingray and the stingray's barb went up and into his chest and put a hole into his heart," said Stainton, who was on board Irwin's boat at the time.
Crew members aboard the boat, Croc One, called emergency services in the nearest city, Cairns, and administered CPR as they rushed the boat to nearby Low Isle to meet a rescue helicopter. Medical staff pronounced Irwin dead when they arrived a short time later, Stainton said.
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Not to speak ill of the dead, (he certainly deserves it), but Irwin was a punk poser who possessed the social graces of a hyena. Idiots such as he that pounce upon animals just to get a rise out of the audience are a dime a dozen in Oz, but this dolt was fortunate enough to become famous for being a cad of neanderthal proportions. The famous episode whereby he suspended his infant son over the gaping jaws of a croc forever emphasized that the man was better off homeless and found frozen to death in an alley. In summer. Now at least the baby can grow up without so horrid an influence.
Here's what the Australian papers are saying:
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