What can I say? The guy made a living teasing wild animals and it finally caught up with him. All right, so technically he wasn't teasing the stingray - he was just swimming near it when for no particular reason it jabbed a barb right through his heart. At least, that's what the official story was. That Steve wasn't doing anything to the stingray; that stingrays are docile creatures that almost never attack people, and it was just a fluke. Well, call me a skeptic, but I just don't buy it. I don't think the stingray was just swimming along, minding its own business, and for no good reason it happened to raise its stinger thingie up and, whoops, old Steve's chest just happened to get in the way. I think the stingray was paid off. Yup, by the crocodiles. Cause they had it in for Steve. He'd been fucking with them for years, and they were tired of it. So they got together and came up with a plan: they were gonna get that Irwin guy when he least expected it. Not when he was wrestling a croc, or messing with rattlesnakes, or sticking his arm in a badger-hole (if badgers in fact live in holes). No, they were going to call upon their docile aquatic buddy the stingray to do the job. Because Irwin would never see that coming. Pure genius, if you ask me.
By the way, an Honorable Mention Biggest Loser to Bill Maher for this ridiculous dead-Steve-Irwin costume:
Making fun of the dead? How jerky is that?
