Logicless Logic

CRIKEY

saw on the news yesterday that steve irwin, better known as the crocodile hunter was killed while filming a documentary at a reef off port douglas. how? his heart was pierced by the barb of a stingray, which was extremely poisonous. i thought it was rather ironic that he was killed in such a way because he basically manhandled crocodiles much bigger than him all his life and yet he was killed by a creature much smaller and relatively more docile than a giant crocodile. according to himslef, he had never suffered from a crocodile or snake bite in his life. which was no mean feat considering how he had caught his first crocodile at 9. he will now carry that honour forever.

this actually led me to think how coincidental it was. i enjoyed watching his series, crocodile hunter, with my family. he was just that bit more entertaining, more enthusiastic. they all said if he kept doing this one day he would die in the jaws of a rogue crocodile. and yet he was to die because of a stingray. and the barb of the stingray had coincidentally pierced him in the heart, just as he was swimming over it. had he been swimming a little faster, a little slower, a little more to the left, a little more to the right, there would not have been the death of an active, enthusiastic wildlife conservationalist. the world would not have lost one of its more deserving inhabitants. when i told my grandmother about it, she told me that if it was his time to go, he would go. and i think this was the way he would have wanted to go. doing what he loved.

farewell mr crocodile hunter. in his own words, crikey mate. they got ya now.

justin.

posted by justin @ 8:26 PM