Stingray barb-ie out of Steve

I thought it was an early April Fool this morning when I read that Steve Irwin "Croc Hunter" has died after an encounter with a stingray. It's just so unexpected at his age, although I suppose his lifestyle exposed him to many dangerous animals, and his approach to zoo-keeping/animal-handling was somewhat controversially hands-on.

There's an element of dark humour in this, but then to think of his wife and his two children, especially his little girl Bindi, who we sort of "know" through their appearances on his shows...