Re: Croc hunter's son unfazed by snake bite
- From: Flasherly <gjerrell@xxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 07:25:31 -0800 (PST)
On Feb 22, 12:36 am, "Kevin" <webm...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"Flasherly" <gjerr...@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Feb 19, 9:49 am, Agent Smith <agent-sm...@two-blocks-on-your-
left.com> wrote:
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.
How could you not know that Steve Irwin was killed when the barb of a
stingray pierced his heart? This was covered by every major news
organization in the world for weeks, nonstop. It was huge news.
Everywhere. This would be akin to saying that you didn't know that
professional wrestling was fake.
I'm ignorant: I haven't subscribed for nigh ten years to broadcast
subscriptions, and don't follow other than a spectrum of relevant news
from the internet press feeds. I've even lived in countries, for
years and years, where television didn't exist, or only came on in the
evenings. But thanks all the same for fleshing in principals, really.
Professional wrestling is real to me in the sense of what's left of
Hulk Hogan's estate. I'm critical, but he's only given me reason to
be intrigued the few times I've been around him. He has a quiet
unflinching stare, menacing, I suppose for some, which nevertheless
can quickly turn kindly in welcoming public and fans. What I would
suspect at his heart are untold ties to Andre The Giant.
.
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