Quote Originally Posted by Pam
Richard I heard that if Steve Irwin had left the barb in his chest until he got to the hospital, as this man did, he would have had a better chance of surviving. Don't know how true that is though.

Well,
they said that Irwin died instantly...but there was a doc on the tube last night that said people have a better chance of surviving a stab/knife wound by leaving the object in.

Irwin probably bled out...

There are two things that saved this guy...the barb broke off and it did not pierce his heart..altho it was reported that as the heart beat it drew the barb closer to heart itself!