Re: Croc hunter's son unfazed by snake bite

Flasherly <gjerrell@xxxxxx> wrote in
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On Feb 19, 9:49 am, Agent Smith <agent-sm...@two-blocks-on-your-
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Croc hunter's son unfazed by snake bite
12 minutes ago

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Like father, like son?

The 4-year-old son of "Crocodile Hunter" Steve Irwin wasn't at all
alarmed when he was recently bitten by a baby boa constrictor,
according to his mother.

"He picked one of them up and it bit him on the finger, and he was so
proud to have copped his first hit," Irwin's widow, Terri, said
Monday at an appearance at FAO Schwarz with her two children to
promote a new line of toys.

"He said, 'I hope it wasn't venomous,' so I assured Robert I wouldn't
actually let him play with venomous snakes," she added.

Terri Irwin said the couple's 9-year-old daughter, Bindi, was first
bitten by a snake when she was 18 months old.

The girl, who is featured in the Discovery Kids Channel show "Bindi
the Jungle Girl," posed for cameras with a new action figure in her
likeness.

"It's every little girl's dream to have an exact look-alike doll.
It's amazing," said Bindi, who was signing action figure toys of her
late father.

Steve Irwin, known through his nature TV series as a wrangler of
crocodiles and snakes, died in 2006 from a stingray's barbed tail
during an underwater documentary shoot. He was 44.

I didn't know and was wondering up till now what got him. Not that
bad, a stingray, rather common certain times during the year for
here. Don't know what Steve was doing, though, up to his neck in
those woods. Like a pet dog, with a 10-foot wingspan, I've seen them
come up to docks when cutting the guts out of a catch and hang for
feeding. Watching a tourist one time hook a sailcat (same thing as a
catfish, but with a big sail running down its back, top point of the
sail being actually a barb). It was a slimy, whiskered cat on a foot
or two of line at the end of his pole he didn't know to handle.
What's he do... swings pole and line length over his head, in a big
arch, for smacking the fish forcefully on concrete to rip the hook
out. In theory. The fish didn't become unhooked, but bounced back
into his shin with the barb lodged into fully into his shin-bone.
Damnest sight, someone walking hesitantly, a few short steps a time,
figuring what to do or where to go, with this big-assed catfish stuck
into his leg.

I'd start by snipping off the barb with a pair of wire cutters.
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