Ross is like Richard Simmons!! I miss Steve Irwin.

HistNerd: There was an ant documentary from Steve Irwin? Which one was that? I didn't think he ever did one, but I would love to see it!

I saw a Steve Irwin documentary that included these ants. The reason the heat isn't as bad for them is because their legs lift them high off the surface and because they are not touching the sand with all of their legs at once. Just some random information.

Steve Irwin is a good man, and he certainly has a strong and loving family.

My kids begged me to stay up last night to watch the memorial. It broke my heart. They cried so. I didn't realise they liked him so much. Guess a lot of kids did. There were many children there dressed in khaki with tears flowing down their cheeks.

That says alot about Steve Irwin.

OMG! I was crying at this! Please don't get me wrong, I have the greatest respect for Steve Irwin but I was like Jon and couldn't control myself. It's almost like watching an accident on the freeway.

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The whole situation seems so Australian. I never heard a good word about Steve Irwin from an Australian before he died. "A joke", "an embarrassment" "an idiot" were the terms used to describe him. Now the holy trinity has been expanded to a quadrilateral.

Fertilizer is only applied to tall poppies here, after they have been squashed.

I do think this should stay for the reasons already mentioned. There is a distinct qualitative difference between something like this and "Watch Man Eaten By Alligator!" or the eventual "Watch Steve Irwin Get Stung!"

Earlier this year, there was a similar controversy about a haunting documentary called "The Bridge" which is based, in part, on a New Yorker article about people who commit suicide from the Golden Gate bridge. I considered posting the trailer on VS, but it is a very blurry line between understanding the pain that motivates such an act and exploiting the images of the suicides themselves.


New Yorker link - http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?031013fa_fact
The Bridge trailer - http://www.tribecafilmfestival.org/tixSYS/2006/filmguide/event_np_trailer.php?EventNumber=1903

lucasgreen- just like Steve Irwin?

Yeah, the format of the bit is short clips of various people and since a bunch of people here are super interested in seeing Steve Irwin footage I thought I'd let you guys know that he was on here and what time.

Didn't mean to make it look like a bunch of Steve Irwin clips.

This is the best video to remember Steve Irwin with

I see, but I'm still not sure if his choice of approach was a sagacious one. Getting up close and personal is one thing, doing it in a dangerous manner and taking risks (ie. upsetting the animal) is another.

My fear is that this: Now that Irwin is dead he has attained a certian god-hood. Kids want to imitate people they admire and love. One might try to agitate a wild animal to "be like Steve Irwin" and get hurt.

I think Jeff Corwin's approach is ideal...but he's too tame for the viral video generation. People like the Jerry Springer-style because it shocks them. Irwin was the Jerry Springer of the animal world.

To be fair it does feature Steve Irwin, in the same way that Superman featured Marlon Brando: Briefly.

It gets my vote because it's funny, with or without the unfortunate antipodean zoologist.

Featuring Steve Irwin? He was in there all of 2 seconds. Downvote for misleading title.

burhan, don't be a putz. We're celebrating Steve Irwin. He was a clown in life, and he died being a clown, and he wouldn't have wanted it any other way.