THE CROCODILE HUNTER IS DEAD

Steve Irwin was killed today in a freak accident in Cairns, Australia.  News.com says he was filming an underwater documentary when a stingray barb went through his chest.  Ambulance officers confirmed they attended a reef fatality this morning at Batt Reef off Port Douglas.  His wife Terri is trekking on Cradle Mountain in Tasmania and has yet to be told of her husband's death.  A government spokesman from his adopted home of Queensland said:

"I don't think we could even estimate how much he brought us through his personality and his profile and his enthusiasm about Queensland.  It would be difficult to estimate how much he was worth. And it would be difficult to underestimate."

Irwin is survived by his wife, his daughter Bindi Sue, 8, and his son Bob, 2.  Steve Irwin was 44.  

(A stingray?  A damn stingray?  This dude spent 40 hours a day poking dinosaurs with sticks and he gets it from a damn stingray?  They're supposed to sting and ray things, not impale people who entertain me.  They're damn fish, not Jason.  You're not funny Irony.  This is why everybody hates you.)