On a very special Crocodile Hunter

[LDS Jock]

just advertised on Animal Planet, Steve Irwin, aka the Crocodile Hunter, will say goodbye to his dog Sue and have her put to sleep on TV. Must everything be turned into a drama?

[stranger_with_candy]

1. i'm surprised

he doesn't just throw her to the crocs

[Raster]

2. Absolutely. So Crikey-boy has moved on from shameless reptile

exploitation to mammals.

[jonnyblitz]

3. I am sure people will be tuning in to that in droves

will you watch it?

[LDS Jock]

4. I will NOT be watching that

Animal Planet is one of my two default channels (the other the Weather Channel) but I will not watch that show. Brings back too many memories.

[jonnyblitz]

6. I hear you.

Sometimes people might watch that sort of thing, even if it disgusts them, out of curiosity.

My sister watches weather channel all the time and has a weather page as her internet homepage. C-SPAN's 1 or 2 are my default channels.

[DS1]

5. Throwing your dog into a gator pit is NOT putting it to sleep

:grr:

[LDS Jock]

7. thats not how he is putting her down..

at least I don't think. Although, it would make for more dramatic television. Another show on Animal Planet shows two animals battling to see who is the ultimate survivor. Maybe this could be an episode of that. Dog versus gator.

[JohnKleeb]

17. I can see him doing that

Didn't ole Steve have a Jackonsque accident dangling his kid?

[stranger_with_candy]

19. he did

practically put the kid in a croc's mouth

[LDS Jock]

20. really? I thought Kleeb was kidding

he dangled it over a croc? How did I never hear this story?

[stranger_with_candy]

21. he was holding it in one hand while he fed the croc

this was the only pic i could find but i'm sure i saw others at the time where the baby was over the croc's head

[personman]

24. Nope

He never dangled the baby over the crocs head, I've seen the footage.
He walked the baby across the ground a distance from the crocodile, his opinion is that the camera angle the footage was filmed from makes the baby appear closer to the crocodile then it really was.
Personally I think if it wasn't for Michael Jackson & the sad state of MSM we'd have never heard about it.

[stranger_with_candy]

25. look at post 22

you don't call that close to the crocodile?

[personman]

26. Well...

I wouldn't call it "practicly putting the kid in the crocs mouth"
Don't you think you may have been exaggerating just a tad?
The kids still like 3 feet away and unless it's a flying crocodile or it manages to eat 4 feet of Steve in a few seconds the kid'll be alright. Might not be the brightest thing to do, I wouldnt do it, you shouldn't do it, but we arent croc experts either.

[stranger_with_candy]

22. here's a better one

[personman]

8. So I'm assuming

everyone critisizing his exploitation of animals has done far more to help them then he has?

[LDS Jock]

9. our PETA representative has checked in I see

[personman]

13. Actually

I think PETA is mostly nuts, but I like animals.

[Wilber_Stool]

10. I thought you meant the traditional Christmas episode

that one always makes me cry.

[LDS Jock]

11. what is it? the traditional one?

maybe I'd like to see that one

[rooboy]

12. Considering Steve Irwin is a big George Bush fan...

I'd only tune in to his shit show if they were putting HIM down.

[LDS Jock]

14. is he really? I had no idea

off to the gators with him!

[personman]

16. Where'd you hear that?

Just curious, would bum me out if it's true.

[rooboy]

18. When dubya came to Australia...

and the Greens senator Bob Brown tried to protest him, Irwin said that someone should have taken Bob Brown out the back and punched his lights out.

Irwin was part of a little welcoming delegation of Australian celebrities who met Bush.

I live about an hour from Irwin's crocodile farm - he's genuinely interested in crocodiles and the like, but even more interested in money.

[Deja Q]

15. I'll cry when he has guests come on every week, because

(a) the guests want their pet Kevorkianized on national TV

or

(b) Buster the poodle got jiggy with the neighbor's schnauzer, Muffins, and they want to duke it out on TV with a great dane dancing on a stripper pole. :eyes:

[CO Liberal]

23. Will Terry Do The Same To Steve During Februrary Sweeps???

:shrug: