It is sad that Steve Irwin died yesterday his family, his animals and the environment will all be impacted by his passing. Steve died while filming a documentary on the deadliest animals in the sea, ironic in a morbid kind of way. Apparently he had no chance of surviving the sting ray puncture to his lung.
There a two aspects of this story that are a bit out there. Firstly there a calls for him to have a state funeral to honour him and secondly as of 7am 5 Sept 2006 (AEST), the 3 of the top 6 searches on Technorati relate to Steve Irwin, on gnoos 1 out of the top 5 searches and 3 out of the toip 5 tags are about him. Even Yahoo search has 1,200 references to “steve irwin death”, in less than 24 hours!
The guy was popular!
Popularity: 9% [?]
11 responses so far ↓
1 William // Sep 5, 2006 at 2:38 pm
Does a “Choc Hunter”, hunt for chocolates?
2 Michael Specht // Sep 5, 2006 at 3:15 pm
No he hunts for a spell checker at 7am in the morning!
3 William // Sep 5, 2006 at 3:42 pm
Cool
4 Michael Specht // Sep 5, 2006 at 6:33 pm
Although a choc hunter would be interesting, especially one that was killed by a sting ray.
5 Peter Brock killed in a car crash at Michael Specht - discussions on HR and technology // Sep 8, 2006 at 4:19 pm
[...] It has been an interesting week for Australian celebrities, first Steve Irwin and now Peter Brock! It seems Peter Brock was killed in an accident while driving in the West Australian Targa Rally, his car hit a tree about 40 kms east of Perth. [...]
6 David james // Sep 14, 2006 at 5:36 pm
The untimely passing of Steve Irwin is a great tragedy. This has effected my family more than I could have imagined; he has been a great influence on myself and my two boys. The world will never be the same. In the past, I have dealt with this type of emotional pain through music. Being a song writer and composer, I have written musical compositions and songs to honour friends, family, and fallen heroes to ease the pain and commemorate the contributions they’ve made in life. Steve falls under the obvious catagory of “HERO.” Please accept and share with the world this musical tribute in honour of the great “CROCODILE HUNTER” Steve Irwin.. WE LOVE YOU STEVE!!
Sincerely:
David James
P.S. - You can visit me at: http;//www.davidjamesmusic.net
and download the musical tribute “THE MIGHTY STEVE”
7 Melissa Joyce // Sep 19, 2006 at 9:29 am
Steve Irwin was a great person. I enjoyed watching his shows. He will be missed by all. No matter what some people saw to me and my family he was a great person and he loved his family very much. He would have never done anything to put his children in harm ways. I know he will be missed by all who loved him. God bless his family.
Sincerely, Melissa Joyce and Family
8 Billy McLeod // Sep 19, 2006 at 9:33 am
Steve was a great person and I loved watching his shows. He died doing what he loved to do. He will be missed by all. God Bless his family.
9 catie // Sep 22, 2006 at 9:04 am
even though i am only thirteen the crocodile was my hero he always made me laugh! it broke my heart literaly when i heard he had died so i am sorry irwin family for your lose steve was a great man!
10 georgia howe // Nov 14, 2006 at 5:46 pm
steve irwin was my hero im only 12 but he was still the greatest man ever and i looked up to him now that he has gone bindi is my haro but steve will still be my hero
11 Interesting blog statistics (well to me at least) at Michael Specht - discussions on HR and technology // Jan 1, 2007 at 3:51 pm
[...] Croc Hunter Steve Irwin died [...]
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