I typically go to great lengths to avoid death videos, but this one I might watch. I’d have to think about it. I would imagine it’s rather non-violent and anticlimatic. Probably no sound. Steve swimming, a little lightning flash of a tail-whip and some sediment from the bottom swirls up.
I really doubt it will ever be released, though. This does put Terri between a rock and a hard place, though, of wanting to “prove Steve’s innocence” but simultaneously not share an incredibly private and painful moment with every idiot who has an internet connection.
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According to a marine biologist on the BBC news, and halfway down this page, they do indeed have barbs.
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I don’t see a barb, I see a serrated edge. Admittedly, one which was not discerned in my memory of viewing my dad’s box of stingray stingers trophies, but still, I have yet to meet a stingray victim with a stinger still in them. …
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I have. I’ve seen it with my own two eyes and have heard a few first hand accounts. The stinger/barb/whatever you want to call it CAN break off and remain in the victim. In Irwin’s case, the way it is phrased by the witnesses -“He pulled the barb out” - it certainly makes it sound like it was no longer attached to the stingray.
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It really wouldn’t seem to be my business. Just because you love someone doesn’t mean you own them and all likenesses of them into perpetuity. Which brings me to a legal question - who actually owns the footage? If she has a controlling interest in the business and it’s actually hers, then it’s hers. But if his contract says it belongs to his manager or whomever, then it’s theirs and I don’t see how the family has anything to do with it.
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I’m thinking more of simple human decency. I cannot imagine anyone possessing that attribute doing anything other than (a) giving giving the only copy of the tape to the family to destroy if they wish, or (b) destroying it themselves.
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How can his children be actual orphans? The definition of orphan means that a child has lost both parents, not one.
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The dictionary agrees with you, so I concede the point. How about “his wife is an actual widow; his children have actually lost their father.”