Crikey…
It’s been around 6 years since I’ve really watched anything on television. The last thing that I really followed was Samurai X and that other show. I’ve never really grown fond of television.
Maybe it’s because of…
- my childhood school training (No TV during weekdays)
- the blackouts (It’s very irritating to have a power outage right after the opening of X-Men the Animated Series)
- my interest in other things (Books and computers win over televsion anytime)
- my impatience (the suspenseful 7 day wait for each episode kills me)
- my brother (television is one of the things he really enjoys. Under my watch, he gets priority over the remote control)
So, for the past 6 years, 10 minutes of channel surfing every week was more than enough television for me. However, there is one show that could make me stop whatever I was doing. It’s Crocodile Hunter. [don’t bother clicking though, the site is currently down]
Steve Irwin was one of my Television heroes alongside McGyver, Fox Mulder and Shaider. He’s probably the main reason for my fascination with snakes and crocodiles. Too bad I won’t see new episodes from him anymore.
Steve Irwin, the ebullient Australian whose catch cry of “Crikey!” helped him rise to global fame as television’s the “Crocodile Hunter,” was killed Monday by a stingray while filming on the Great Barrier Reef. He was 44.
Irwin was in the water at Batt Reef, off the remote coast of northeastern Queensland state, shooting a segment for a series called “Ocean’s Deadliest” when he swam too close to one of the animals, which have a poisonous barb on their tails, said John Stainton, a friend and colleague.
“He came on top of the stingray and the stingray’s barb went up and into his chest and put a hole into his heart,” said Stainton, who was on board Irwin’s boat, Croc One, at the time.
This is a very sad day… Crickey…