Steve Irwin-1 Year Tribute

[Red Devil]

The point is there will never be another Steve Irwin... no one will ever have his little boy charm, his eagerness for adventure.. his natural ability to entertain the masses.. and as for all the "all out stunts he did" .. if he did not carry it to the max.. the mass of people would not have tuned in and been captured .. and to raise the kind of funds he did .. he had to be one step more outrageous then anyone.. and he did accomplish that..we all watched.. he had our attention.. and he did so much from that to help conservation.. there will never be another Steve Irwin..

 

[Tokis-Phoenix]

The point is there will never be another Steve Irwin... no one will ever have his little boy charm, his eagerness for adventure.. his natural ability to entertain the masses.. and as for all the "all out stunts he did" .. if he did not carry it to the max.. the mass of people would not have tuned in and been captured .. and to raise the kind of funds he did .. he had to be one step more outrageous then anyone.. and he did accomplish that..we all watched.. he had our attention.. and he did so much from that to help conservation.. there will never be another Steve Irwin..

I guess i do agree a lot with you there on many points, i think one of the best things i probably ever did was get so many people interested in the sorts of animals he loved and donate lots of money towards keeping their species alive with conservation and stuff .

 

[Red Devil]

I guess i do agree a lot with you there on many points, i think one of the best things i probably ever did was get so many people interested in the sorts of animals he loved and donate lots of money towards keeping their species alive with conservation and stuff .

That is what he was all about.. he tried to reach out to everyone.. whether you liked him or not..whether you agreed or not... you watched and you were entertained.. you were curious and you remenbered him.. he was original..and because of that he accomplished his goal.. to help animals..

 

[WyldFya]

He was a great man, and a great human being. He has been missed, but his memory will live on forever.

This thread is meant to be a remembrance of a good man, keep it that way.

 

[ddyerfamily]

 

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[davo]

On the other hand though, although i sorta enjoyed watching his programs, i personally didn't always like the way he handled the animals that much. I just kinda got the feeling that he was always trying to get the wild animals to do stuff to Wow the audience. Sometimes it was obvious that the wild animals just wanted to be left alone in peace and allowed to do their own thing.

The thing is, with reptiles they are the wildest of wild animals they don't like you. Have you ever been herping? They will run away, and of course they want to be left alone, they think they are about to be lunch. However he never really made them do anything, I can't recall him trying to get any snakes to strike at him etc. Most of the time he was doing his best to calm the animal, so he could concentrate on telling the world about the species. He wasn't ever rough on them, although literally jumping on a croc might look painful for it, but reptiles are just pure muscle and strength and in the situation it's the only way to be safe around these creatures. Yes he could have taken the Attenborough approach, sat next to them, while talking, or just have him narrate over the top. However the people who have always cared about what Attenborough's programmes are showing us, aren't the people that necessarily need to be educated, Steve brought in an entirely different audience in that sense, which worked for him with his larger than life personality. Anyway, we all loved Steve and in his shortened life, he lived more than most of us. Tired of the negative comments now, none so far have been true, and I'm not pointing that out every time someone makes them, again this is a celebratory thread, here on in, anything else will simply be erased.

By the way Liz, this was my favourite and I think the truest, he loved the animals no one else does.

 

[duke33]

He's the Man.

 

[Red Devil]

The thing is, with reptiles they are the wildest of wild animals they don't like you. Have you ever been herping? They will run away, and of course they want to be left alone, they think they are about to be lunch. However he never really made them do anything, I can't recall him trying to get any snakes to strike at him etc. Most of the time he was doing his best to calm the animal, so he could concentrate on telling the world about the species. He wasn't ever rough on them, although literally jumping on a croc might look painful for it, but reptiles are just pure muscle and strength and in the situation it's the only way to be safe around these creatures. Yes he could have taken the Attenborough approach, sat next to them, while talking, or just have him narrate over the top. However the people who have always cared about what Attenborough's programmes are showing us, aren't the people that necessarily need to be educated, Steve brought in an entirely different audience in that sense, which worked for him with his larger than life personality. Anyway, we all loved Steve and in his shortened life, he lived more than most of us. Tired of the negative comments now, none so far have been true, and I'm not pointing that out every time someone makes them, again this is a celebratory thread, here on in, anything else will simply be erased.

By the way Liz, this was my favourite and I think the truest, he loved the animals no one else does.

Davo that is so freaky but i opened this and it turned out to be the one i was going to post back to you and tell you that this one says it ALL! We had the same exact thought in describing how he loved the animals..

 

[davo]

Davo that is so freaky but i opened this and it turned out to be the one i was going to post back to you and tell you that this one says it ALL! We had the same exact thought in describing how he loved the animals..

im sure some people will have read this before, but for you here it is again, and for the people it is new to:

In 1997, on a balmy still September night in the tranquil Australian bushland of the Northern Territories Tomkinson River (near the township of Maningrida), a gorgeous 16-year-old girl named Annie is alerted to the dull mechanical thud of a vehicle heading her way. Feeling nervous and a little insecure, Annie quietly slips into her home and listens.

The noise of the oncoming vehicle is piercing and threatening in her normally quiet peaceful harmonious Aussie bush home. It keeps coming louder and louder, closer and closer. She waits and listens anxiously. Her nerves and adrenaline heighten to a point where she cant take it any longer. She has to look. As she takes a peek, a bright spot light temporarily blinds her. Completely confused and dazed shes not sure what to do. Before she can react, a searing pain strikes her in the neck as two long sharp barbs of steel penetrate deep into her flesh. She reels in pain back into the security and familiarity of her home. Tearing at the barbs deep in her neck, she feels the strain of a cord running from the barbs to the vehicle and male voices of excitement.

Four desperate adult men pull at the cord as they shout, "We got her. We got her. Hang on to her. Keep the strain on!" They tug on the cord knowingly. Those men know she cant get the barbs out and its just a matter of wearing her down and dragging her to them. Struggling and resisting with all her might, the poor helpless girl is dragged to what she fears is certain torture and death. Exhausted, breathless, totally blinded by a spotlight thats right in her eyes, she is so weak she can hardly move, so starved for energy and air shes virtually frozen in fear and pain. Being dragged by the neck from her home is so traumatic; she doesnt feel the noose go around her head.

Exhilarated by the hunt, revelling in the thrill of the chase and amused by the fight of their prey, totally oblivious to her pain and fear and without remorse, the men mercilessly pull her into the vehicle. They gaffer tape her legs together; tie her arms together behind her back; tape her eyes shut and have her mouth gagged. Very, very happy with their prey, they head for their hideout. The most beautiful of girls is bound so tight that she goes from numb to excruciating pain, yet unable to utter a sound. Almost totally incoherent from cramps and searing pain, she hears the men shout, "Theres another one. Lets get her!" Whack they drive in the barbs and reel another in. Shes even younger and barely an adolescent, easily manhandled, bound and thrown in the vehicle.

'Imagine poor little Annie's nightmare and torment as she lies in pain and fear when they pull up.' The men manhandle her to a dusty old shed; throw her on the ground and mill around smoking and laughing for what seems like hours. Then she hears it! Sssskkk a rifle is loaded and cocked. Annie feels the cold steel of the barrel touching her head. "No not there, you have to shoot them here one man exclaims." "Here?" the other man questions. "Yeah. Thats it, now angle it up towards her brain." "Yeah, thats it" he directs. BOOM! Her torture and torment is finally over but while shes still twitching, they skin her.

No one mourned the death of Annie. No one will shed a tear at her passing or even remember her. No one cares that Annie died so horrifically because Annie was a crocodile.

this was written by Steve Irwin, about the realities he is opposed to.