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Steve Irwin, the fascinatingly annoying “Crocodile Hunter,” is dead. The crocs called in a favor with a sting ray<\/a> to give them plausible deniability.<\/p>\n

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Friends believe he may have died instantly when struck by a stingray as he filmed a sequence for his eight-year-old daughter Bindi\u2019s new TV series. Irwin\u2019s friend of 20 years, Ferre De Deyne said Irwin had been struck by the stingray while filming. \u201cThe stingray just happened to be swimming around and out of the blue whacked his tail at him,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n

[…] Irwin had been filming a new documentary called Ocean\u2019s Deadliest<\/i> with friend and manager John Stainton at Batt Reef, off Port Douglas about 11am. \u201cHe came over the top of a stingray and the stingray\u2019s barb went up and went into his chest and put a hole into his heart,\u201d Mr Stainton said. \u201cIt\u2019s likely that he possibly died instantly when the barb hit him, and I don\u2019t think that he … felt any pain. He died doing what he loved best.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Like Les<\/a>, I wasn’t a big fan, but he was successful and he had an entertaining and fairly harmless schtick, and was always good for a fun parody<\/a>. A lot worse could be said for a number of folks in show biz.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Steve Irwin, the fascinatingly annoying “Crocodile Hunter,” is dead. The crocs called in a favor with a sting ray to give them plausible deniability. 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