My goodness.

Steve Irwin, Crocodile Hunter and wearer of the khaki shorts 'n' shirts combo extraordinaire, dead?!

That's rather bizarre if it's true. He's the sort of person you love to well, not love, but not hate, just kind of let people from overseas love and make assumptions about us all owning a kangaroo from... And he was kind of funny. Plus it never hurts for people to be passionate about sharing Australia and its animals with others.

But death by stingray would not be a nice way to go. If he has in fact gone. And it seems like he is.

The past couple of months have been so deathy. My great-aunt died on Friday morning, although not with a stingray involved. But still, pretty sad all 'round.