Quote Originally Posted by GreyhoundGirl
Hmmmm. Strange, you'd think Irwin would have known better. If he died after he took it out he shouldn't have teken it out. No offence, but I thought he was supposed to be an expert on this thing?

First off he wasn't an expert on sting rays, secondly it's human nature to instinctively try to pull out something that impales you and it probably happened in a split second, not to mention he probably had no idea it hit his heart, it would have been scant seconds. He obviously wouldn't have pulled it out if he KNEW it would kill him and KNEW what would happen. There is no guarantee he would have lived anyway, they weren't close to any help when he got hurt, like this other gentleman was.