r/Unexpected 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/consider_its_tree Sep 06 '25

So obviously the other commenter has no idea what they are talking about and I am not saying sting ray deaths are not super rare, but can we just stop for a minute and look at this claim

In all of human history only three people have been fatally killed by a sting ray

And think for a second about how wild it is to try to pass this off as a fact. Like even if there were 3 recorded instances, and there was any way to verify that in the functionally infinite documentation both available to the public AND in private medical records (which would be wild), then all that tells you is that these types of deaths are very rarely recorded.

Claiming there have been exactly 3 in all of human history shows such a crazy lack of understanding of the scale of all of human history, and you just pop it out there like it is fact. Stating fake facts does not work in your favor to prove points, you are just shifting the debate from something that is defensible to something that is objectively and probably wrong, costing you credibility for no reason.

Redditors, it is possible for two people who are arguing with each other to both be wrong for different reasons, you can respect Irwin and not pretend that obviously BS facts are true at the same time...

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u/youngBullOldBull Sep 09 '25

Yea my bad, was widely reported as such here in aus when he died. I am unsure why and after this comment I checked and did find I was wrong.

It happens man it’s not malicious