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I was sad to hear about this this morning . I enjoyed watching the crazy aussie and his extremely enthusiastic shows.

But really, honestly, is anyone surprised?

Anyone?

Not really. I caught a little glimpse of one of his shows on Saturday morning. He was approaching a group of 3 crocs and he was saying how dangerous it was to be that close. All I could think was that someday he was going to end up getting himself killed by constantly putting himself in harms way. So no, I'm not really at all surprised.

What I find ironic is that it was a stingray. Of all the dangerous critters the man comes in contact with, the stingray is probably the least aggressive.

Yeah, Steve did alota great things for wild life. He may have done some crazy things, but he had the knowledge of how to handle himself in those situations. He always had parametics just off camra. Something critical was possable, but he did his best to educate and better the world.

But, his line of work was dangerous to the end. He made a mistake, and it cost him his life. He did great things for good causes that will forever earn him a place in peoples memory.

Steve was shanked!

The stingray might have felt corned between the cameraman and Steve and attacked Steve though. Since they caught it on videotape, the coroner has the tape and is reviewing it, although currently they say that Steve did nothing to provoke the animal.

I'm afraid to say that I have (had) very little respect for the man, I met him while he was hawking his wares (videos and such) at a herpetological society gathering that I visit each year. On multiple occasions he used deceased animals to make his tv show appear more dangerous (since most folks can't tell the difference between a live snake and a dead one if it's filmed in such a way as to hide it). I believe that his actions encouraged people to taunt and otherwise intrude on animals in their natural habitat and I can't respect that.

I do pity the loss his family is suffering, and I can applaud him for inciting interest in herpetology in a general sense. I simply feel that it would be hypocritical of me to laud him now simply because he has been killed.

Firia wrote:Yeah, Steve did alota great things for wild life. He may have done some crazy things, but he had the knowledge of how to handle himself in those situations. He always had parametics just off camra. Something critical was possable, but he did his best to educate and better the world.

But, his line of work was dangerous to the end. He made a mistake, and it cost him his life. He did great things for good causes that will forever earn him a place in peoples memory.

Nicely said.. always enjoyed watching his shows and he seemed like he was the type to always be kind and hard to anger.. ofc he was on tv whenever I saw him but still.. he never was boring (Yes im being anti-proper punctation and caps. im working on my first coffee here :p)

RIP Steve <3

Steve certainly knew how to market himself and his knowledge. I've been very 50-50 with him between the extremes of high appreciation and disappointment with his actions...but the good bits that have been said are true, I think. And he will certainly be missed in the entertainment community. The man had a finely tuned personality built for TV and impossible to duplicate.

the dude played with WILD animals, you dont need to provoke an animal for it to do strange things, they are WILD, he made his millions playing with WILD animals so i guess he died doing what he loved, playing with WILD animals