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Looks like Steve Irwin finally pissed off the wrong animal

Monday, September 4th, 2006

Mr Irwin, 44, was killed by a stingray barb to the chest while he was filming an underwater documentary in Queensland’s Great Barrier Reef.

Paramedics from the nearby city of Cairns rushed to treat him at the scene but were unable to save him.

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“It is believed that Mr Irwin collapsed after being stung by a stingray at Batt Reef off Port Douglas at about 1100 (0100 GMT),” a police statement quoted by AFP news agency said.

“His crew called for medical treatment and the Queensland medical helicopter responded. However Mr Irwin had died.”

Figures he would have gone out this way. But damn, of all the animals and all the ways they could have gotten him… this seems almost like an assassination on behalf of the animal kingdom. I always expected that one of these days he would wrestle a croc and lose. At least that would have been a fair fight (since we all know Steve would have been the one who started it).