Buzz Out Loud Lounge: Steve Irwin dead

Very upset and mourning

I live on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland Australia, where the pain hits most; we are all very devastated and hope for the best for Terri, Bindi and Bob.

We (My parents and I) plan to go to Australia Zoo and leave some flowers and pay our respects. At least I live about 15 miles or more away from the Zoo which makes it easy. I met Terri Irwin back in 1999 during a school excursion she was working at the zoo at the time and we engaged in a 10 min conversation she was very friendly, and that was the last time I saw her. Ironically I saw Steve from a distance along with a few other people there with the crocs that happened a year or two after I saw Terri when I went to the zoo again.

I heard the news yesterday by a visitor and we were stunned, I just couldn't talk I soon logged on and went to an Australian News site and there it was ''Steve Irwin dies aged 44'' I read the news and saw the news on TV and later on the true pain begun to sink in and went to bed thinking about what happened. The next day I woke up feeling depressed and saddened I had came to accept what had happened, Steve Irwin is no more.

I might sound a bit hysterical but he was one of my heroes and although I disagreed with his Baby Bob incident I never hated him. Since we can't do anything about it I'm now concerned about Terri and the kids and his family I hope they pull together through this. RIP Steve.

And as one final word: Crikey!



http://www.news.com.au/

Trajedy trumps technology, but here's a tech link anyway.

First I would like to express my sincerest grief in the death of Steve Irwin. He was a great guy, who provided education, rare information, and eXtreme entertainment. However, I found out about him through an internet frenzy about the "Crocodile Hunter" where clips from his TV show showed up on YouTube and MySpace-like social networking sites. He was even mentioned by Dane Cook (my favorite stand up comedian) who did a bit about him on his Retaliation disc. You can find it on his website. So anyway, just a little link from this story to the internet.
Love to Steve's family.

StGoalJS

PS First CNET Forums posting! Very excited, though it's too bad to start posting on a bad note.

Thank you.

Thank you, it's good to be here. I've listened to Buzz Out Loud for a long time now, but only just joined the forums here. Congratulations on your T-shirt!

StGoalJS

(NT) R.I.P. Steve :-(

(NT) Don't trust comments from Germaine Greer

He really wasn't acting...

Even Jay Leno talked about how he was just that energetic and passionate about animals even off camera. CNN had an on the spot interview with a production assistant who said she took him to Starbucks and he raved about the espresso the same way.
One thing I owe him, hell, we all do...he gave us the ability to understand the animals. Kind of spoke for them.
Took dagerous snakes and showed us that they, like us, are just trying to live...doing what they do.
I guess you could say, he made them a little more "human".
Germaine Greer doesn't understand that things people don't know about, they don't really care about. He didn't "torture" the animals -maybe he annoyed them- but he helped them mean something to us so maybe we would care if they started to disappear.