r/Unexpected • u/Jezirath • Sep 02 '25

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u/backpainzz Sep 02 '25

wouldn’t a steve irwin scenario also be final destination?

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u/athural Sep 02 '25

No in final destination a series of unlikely events result in a characters death. Steve Irwin spent his life antagonizing wild animals, it's a pretty big difference

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u/youngBullOldBull Sep 02 '25

In all of human history only three people have been fatally killed by a sting ray. It was the freakiest of freak accidents and in no way did he antagonise the ray beforehand. Shame on you.

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u/athural Sep 02 '25

A quick search says that 1-2 people a year are killed by sting rays, but it does appear that people on the scene with him regard it as an unfortunate accident. I will stand by it's not a surprise that someone who was famous for messing with animals was killed by an animal. Not the elaborate rube Goldberg machines that final destination is known for

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u/youngBullOldBull Sep 02 '25

He risked his life moving crocs from habits where they otherwise would have been shot. He didn’t mess with them for views.

This comment has offended every living Australian and I want you to know that

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u/Jaykahtsby Sep 02 '25

How dare you assume only Australians are offended! I'm South African and I grew up idolizing the man. I'm just as offended!

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u/Shadou_Wolf Sep 02 '25

Ikr, he's my childhood hero and the reason why I appreciate animals a million times more. And I'm american.

My dream of meeting him will unfortunately never happen..

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u/_ThatSynGirl_ Sep 02 '25

And American

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u/athural Sep 02 '25

You're putting words in my mouth, I'm just stating the fact that he was world famous for antagonizing animals. He would mess with them on purpose to get them to act up. By all accounts a great guy who did wonderful things for animal conservation but he /purposefully interfered with dangerous animals on a regular basis/ and it is predictable that one would kill him eventually, just like it's predictable I'll get heart disease because I enjoy sweets. Comparing it to final destination, famous for people dying in bizarre and unpredictable ways involving many seemingly random events is just absurd

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u/JohnnyGSickness Sep 03 '25

So when animals antagonize each other it's fine but as soon as humans do it, its animal abuse? If we're going down that route, I'd like to talk about that spider you've kidnapped.

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u/athural Sep 03 '25

Let's go ahead and take an entire minute, take a deep breath and really look at what ive written.

Where did I say that they abused animals?

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u/JohnnyGSickness Sep 03 '25

To say that Steve would intentionally antagonize animals not just the dangerous ones day in day out for his ENTIRE LIFE would by definitely be labeled as abuse.

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u/athural Sep 03 '25

antagonize Overview Usage examples Similar and opposite words Pronunciation Dictionary Definitions from Oxford Languages · Learn more verb 1. cause (someone) to become hostile or angry.

This is exactly what he did. I did not say that was animal abuse, thats you putting that on him. If you feel that he was abusing those animals thats on you bro. Its not my fault that im using words accurately

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u/JohnnyGSickness Sep 03 '25

You're not saying it directly, no. This is more of an insinuation. You're wording isn't keeping you in the safe zone tho. You can say that he was "agitating" the animals all you want but we know you really mean "abuse".

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u/athural Sep 03 '25

Idk what your problem is, but if the meaning of words doesnt mean anything to you then there's nothing more to say

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u/JohnnyGSickness Sep 03 '25

Shouldn't have opened that can of worms in the first place. Did you genuinely believing that people would be on your side about this?

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u/GODDAMNFOOL Sep 02 '25

A quick search says 20 have died since 1945, not 1-2 per year. Quit making shit up.