• Archangel1313@lemmy.ca
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    2 months ago

    Knowing his track record with poking wild animals…yes. It wouldn’t surprise me if he was pulling its tail to prevent it from escaping, and it had enough.

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        2 months ago

        One of his most famous lines was, “Oh, crikey! Look at how mad he is!”, while poking an animal with a stick.

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        2 months ago

        Wut? Lol Steve Irwin has had one of the greatest posthumous image rehabilitation in history. He may have never harmed anything, but he sure didn’t respect them either. He was pretty disliked by conservationists when he was still alive.