"I revise my original statement. I am GLAD this obnoxious is dead. Sorry for his wife and kids, but relieved they are in no further danger from his lunacy!"
There's more, but Byrne, perhaps having the basic shame of a dog that drags its behind on the carpet, deleted the entire thread from his forum of brown-nosers, Yes-Men, and sycophants.
Typing comments about a person days after their death is absolutely barbaric.
As someone who has experience with marine life, as a former couselor at a sailing summer camp for disabled kids (though they never asked me to join the yacht club - darn, I sure do regret wearing my Star of David that time) let me say that stingrays are shy, basically harmless and attack as a last resort. I've petted some on numerous occasions. Irwin's injury was freakishly one-in-a-million and hardly the irresponsible daredevil hotdogging that Byrne makes it out to be, further proof Byrne is a shrivel-souled, broken man that talks about things he knows nothing about.
But I AM bothered when I see people shedding tears over someone who is an irresponsible, egotistical, apparently virtually insane obnoxious."
My irony-o-meter just EXPLODED.
Byrne's "taking offense for the sake of his family?" Nigga, please! I take offense for ME. I loved Steve Irwin, he was sweet, earnest and a wonderful showman and when I heard about his death it deeply affected me. Byrne's dickheaded comments are the LAST thing I wanted to read so soon.
I especially love how Byrne brings up a totally unrelated and irrelevant baby-croc interaction from three years ago. Very classy. Because after all, Byrne knows more about crocodile behavior than Steve Irwin.