"The animal world has finally taken its revenge......"

[dkveuro]

This must be the most insensitive person still sucking oxyen.


http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/the-animal-world-got-its-revenge/2006/09/05/1157222132684.html



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[Carleton Hughes]

yeah, well opinions are like a**holes,everybody has one, including this crusty Tribade.

Wonder what she thinks of Jane Goodall and her apes?

[BENZ-LGB]

Originally Posted by dkveuro

This must be the most insensitive person still sucking oxyen.


http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/the-animal-world-got-its-revenge/2006/09/05/1157222132684.html



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How can you write that when people like Scott Peterson (who killed his pregnant wife and thus his unborn child as well) still live?

I am sorry that he is dead, but you live by the sword, you die by the sword.

Do you feel badly when a bull gores a matador and kills him? I don't.

Do you feel badly when elephant trainers get stomped and killed by circus elephants that are driven to madness by being forced to perform tricks? I don't.

I think the point that the writer was trying to make is that Steve knew full well what he was doing. Animals, domesticated or otherwise, are unpredictable. If you get into their sandbox you are taking a calculated risk that you may get injured or killed.

Sometimes you are the ball, sometimes you are the bat.

Sometimes you are the bug, sometimes you are the windshield.

Sometimes you are the arrow sometimes you are the bull's eye.

[BENZ-LGB]

Originally Posted by Carleton Hughes

yeah, well opinions are like a**holes,everybody has one, including this crusty Tribade.

Wonder what she thinks of Jane Goodall and her apes?

Carleton, Jane Goodall was a respected scientist, trying to educate us about the great apes.

She wasn't "in it" for the entertainment value or to provide others with a vicarous thrill.

I am not a PETA fanatic, but I think that grabbing a snake and watching it twist in the wind just for the hell of it, is not only stupid but also insensitive to the creatures with whom we share this planet.

[dkveuro]

Originally Posted by BENZ-LGB

How can you write that when people like Scott Peterson (who killed his pregnant wife and thus his unborn child as well) still live?

I said 'insensitive' not cruel and murderous.
There is absolutly no auguable relationship between your point and this woman article.

She is without reserve, the worst kind of insensitive person.

What would she say if we published negative comments about her marriage of 3 weeks?

augue all you like...there's no excuse for this verbage and I'm sure she'd not have said that to Terri's face.



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[cmac2012]

Originally Posted by BENZ-LGB

How can you write that when people like Scott Peterson (who killed his pregnant wife and thus his unborn child as well) still live?

I am sorry that he is dead, but you live by the sword, you die by the sword.

Do you feel badly when a bull gores a matador and kills him? I don't.

Do you feel badly when elephant trainers get stomped and killed by circus elephants that are driven to madness by being forced to perform tricks? I don't.

I think the point that the writer was trying to make is that Steve knew full well what he was doing. Animals, domesticated or otherwise, are unpredictable. If you get into their sandbox you are taking a calculated risk that you may get injured or killed.

Sometimes you are the ball, sometimes you are the bat.

Sometimes you are the bug, sometimes you are the windshield.

Sometimes you are the arrow sometimes you are the bull's eye.

I'm tending to agree with you somewhat on Irwin. He was likeable, but a little over the top, IMHO.

The strength in his bod was matched or surpassed only by the strength of his ego. He stood on the edge of the cliff plenty of times, and the last time he got a bit too close.

[riethoven]

Originally Posted by BENZ-LGB

I think the point that the writer was trying to make is that Steve knew full well what he was doing. Animals, domesticated or otherwise, are unpredictable. If you get into their sandbox you are taking a calculated risk that you may get injured or killed.

It seems to me that the writer is getting down on Steve Irwin and his methods and the influence that he has had on the youth that follows him.

I must admit, I thought he was a little crazy when he handled venomous snakes. His death has also made me realize that most conservationists observe but don't touch.

[BENZ-LGB]

Originally Posted by cmac2012

I'm tending to agree with you somewhat on Irwin. He was likeable, but a little over the top, IMHO.

The strength in his bod was matched or surpassed only by the strength of his ego. He stood on the edge of the cliff plenty of times, and the last time he got a bit too close.

Carl, it is OK to agree with me.

I won't tell anyone in Berkeley.

I guess we should all be so lucky to die doing what we like best.

He was over the top.

I guess you and I are from that generation that was raised watching that guy from the Mutual of Omaha (Perkins???).

[BENZ-LGB]

Originally Posted by riethoven

...His death has also made me realize that most conservationists observe but don't touch.

Exactly my point.

[John Doe]

Much as on this forum, she expressed an opinion, and is certainly entitled. I understand the guy did a lot for conservation and donated a lot of money to the cause. I have seen his kiddie-version tv show, and it is very informative (and not so stupid dangerous).

That said, I hope Steve gets an aboriginal curse put on her from the grave and a bird ****s on her head every day she walks outside from henceforth.

[450slcguy]

Actually what she had to say about Steve wasn't that bad, maybe a little critical about his interaction with the wild, but certainly not rude.

In another reality, I think he brought alot of awareness and education to his worldwide audience. He obviously spent most of life learning and handling the critters he interacted with and I don't really see how he abused any of them. He loved what he did and it showed. RIP

[John Doe]

Originally Posted by riethoven

His death has also made me realize that most conservationists observe but don't touch.

How did you learn this from his death? When I was in college and worked on many conservation projects, we had to touch many animals, whether working rehabbing falcons at the Raptor center, counting and moving sea turtle hatches, tagging fish, jaguars and bears, collecting frogs eggs for studying pesticide runoff levels, taking seine net samples of particular marsh systems, ect......

[t walgamuth]

i wonder how many teenagers died trying his tricks?

just a thought.

tom w

[John Doe]

Originally Posted by t walgamuth

i wonder how many teenagers died trying his tricks?

just a thought.

tom w

I doubt any ,or we would have heard about it just like we hear about six year old's killing their friends doing 'wrastling moves' and kids committing suicide after listening to marilyn manson and ozzy osborne.

I grew up screwing with alligators, poisonous snakes, sharks and other critters--I am still around them on a regular basis. So Irwin titillatingly fed crocs in his care, and was a bit dramatic about his rescues to sell advertising. Big deal. I think he was an asset to society.

The author forgot the mention that most of the animals he filmed were rescue situations, wither he captured and filmed or it was Mr. Rifle or Shovel.

Personally I thank Mr. Irwin for teaching my child about animals on the other side of the globe that I could not possibly do myself, I sincerely think that Mr. Irwins programs have been a huge contribution to my daughters knowledge, respect and understanding of the world down under that was foreign to me as a child. I remember when most people thought the Tasmanian Devil was a cartoon character.

Below is where you can spout off about how bad of a parent I am for using television to teach my children about worlds 10,000 miles away.