Hanging Out with a Snake

That was bound to happen!

A clip of Steve Irwin taking a bite from a snake. Taken from Steve Irwin's W"ildest Animal Encounters Vol. 2."

Stephen Robert "Steve" Irwin, nicknamed "The Crocodile Hunter", was an Australian wildlife expert, television personality, and conservationist.On 4 September 2006, Irwin was killed at the age of 44 while filming a documentary. Irwin approached a stingray allegedly 8 ft wide in chest-deep water from behind in order to film it swimming away, The fish reacted to Irwin as if a shark was attacking, striking him several hundred times in the body with its tail spine in a few seconds. Crew members aboard Irwin's boat administered CPR and rushed him to shore, but medical staff pronounced him dead at the scene