the crocodile hunter....

ok, so when i mentioned to my daughter thsi morning that steve the crocodile hunter had been killed this mroning, she was in disbelief.......how did i know for sure?.......it wasn't in the paper.....oy!....and when i added the detail that it had been a stingray that did him him, rather than a croc....she was livid.....how could this be true....? it had to be a crocodile!....and then she proceeded to call up her friends to spread the news.......my middle child didn't miss a beat, quipping....'i'll always remember where i was when steve erwin died.....'....reading all about this fellow online i learned all sorts of things that i missed out on-not being an animal planet junkie.......like the contraversy over him holding his month-old son in one arm whilst he fed a croc with his other......child-rights activists had a heyday with that.........i do feel sorry for the wife and children he left behind.......though his line of work is not something that a family member can realistically 'carry on' in dad's name.......maybe the craziness that is crocodile hunting for cash will be a dying art........