Stingrays persecuted after the death of Steve Irwin

The BBQ Pit
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This has to be the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard.

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I just started a thread about this in MPSIMS.

I guess I just don’t care as much about it as you. :o

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This reaffirms my faith in humanity.

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So this stingray barb I just bought on ebay wasn’t the one that killed Steve Irwin?

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Great. Just the sort of asshattery which Steve would decry. :rolleyes:

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I like your thread better. More links, and it has a skwirl war.

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The local version of the story also mentions someone refuting the claim:

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I’ve been killing ministers ever since Marvin Gaye was murdered.

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I sincerely hope these reports are mistaken. With Mr. Irwin’s recent death so much in the public consciousness, anyone finding a dead stingray is likely to imagine some sort of connection there, so I wonder if the stingray deaths aren’t just being reported more right now, rather than actually happening more frequently. So far, it appears that no one has yet turned up at a Queensland pub, leaking beer sweat from every pore while loudly claiming to have avenged the Croc Hunter.

I’m not saying it’s impossible that some yahoo’s declared his own personal vendetta against stingrays-- people are funny like that sometimes-- but on the other hand, I’m looking at a map of Queensland here, and they’ve got like a metric assload of coastline. I’m frankly astonished that anyone would think ten dead stingrays in a week is unusual. So I’m inclined to believe that it’s likely a bunch of hooey.

he situation also reminds me of this one time, way back when the Satanic Cult Menace was all over the American news, that my rural neighbors decided a roadkilled deer found near the town bridge was actually a ritual sacrifice. Evidently prolonged exposure to TV talk show radiation can annihilate your critical faculties.

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Right. We don’t have numbers on how many dead sting rays wash up on Australian shores in a normal week so we have no indication that this is unusual. Sting ray are on everyone’s mind right now (especially in Australia) so people will likely be noticing them more.

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Serves’em well! Damn things had it coming! Only bleeding heart pussy liberals would be against just retribution.

When Augustus son was killed by swallowing a pear, the Romans punished the pear tree by digging it up and burning it. That’ll teach it not to do it another time.