{"id":1880,"date":"2006-09-04T07:47:52","date_gmt":"2006-09-04T12:47:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/?p=1880"},"modified":"2006-09-04T07:47:52","modified_gmt":"2006-09-04T12:47:52","slug":"crikey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2006\/09\/crikey\/","title":{"rendered":"Crikey!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin Killed<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Australian naturalist and television personality Steve Irwin has been killed by a stingray during a diving expedition off the Australian coast.
\nMr Irwin, 44, died after being struck in the chest by the stingray’s barb while he was filming a documentary in Queensland’s Great Barrier Reef.
\n“Stingrays only sting in defence, they’re not aggressive animals so the animal must have felt threatened. It didn’t sting out of aggression, it stung out of fear,” Dr Bryan Fry, Deputy Director of the Australian Venom Research Unit at the University of Melbourne said….
\nExperts say that while painful, stingray venom is rarely lethal and it would have been the wound caused by the barb itself, which could measure up to 20cm long, which proved fatal.
\n“What happened to Steve Irwin is like being stabbed in the heart. It has little to do with the venom and all to do with the trauma caused by the barb of the stingray,” Dr Geoff Isbister, a clinical toxicologist at the Mater Hospital in Newcastle, Australia, said. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n


\nNews.com.au Obituary<\/a>
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\nBBC Obituary<\/a>
\nThis cries out for some kind of wry joke, probably a pun of some kind, but you’ll have to read some other blog for that. I got nuthin.’
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\nFrom the WaPo:<\/a><\/p>\n

Stainton said Irwin’s American-born wife Terri, from Eugene, Ore., had been informed of his death, and had told their daughter Bindi Sue, 8, and son Bob, who will turn 3 in December.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin Killed: Australian naturalist and television personality Steve Irwin has been killed by a stingray during a diving expedition off the Australian coast. Mr Irwin, 44, died after being struck in the chest by the stingray’s barb while he was filming a documentary in Queensland’s Great Barrier Reef. “Stingrays only sting in… Continue reading Crikey!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1880\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}