Well, the stupidity of the human nature has reared it’s ugly head once again!
I’m speaking about the tragic death of Steve ‘The Crocodile Hunter’ Irwin. While filming an episode for his extremely popular nature program, he was suddenly struck in the heart by the poisenous barb of a Stingray’s tail off the coast of Australia. Eyewitness accounts of the event all reported that in no way was Steve threatening, or intimidating the animal at the time. The Stingray just acted in self defense, only the Stingray knows why. It happens.
In the past few days, dead Stingrays have been washing ashore on the beaches of Australia. Some of them with their tails cut off. That’s right! It seems there are possies of Red Neck Australians hunting down Stingrays to avenge Steve’s death! Give your head a shake people! It seems the extremely docile Stingray has now been put into the category of ‘Man Eater/Attacker’, and is being hunted because of the label!
Sharks are probably the most feared and hunted fish in the sea. Why? Probably because of the shark attacks on surfers. From underneath, the Shark doesn’t know the difference between a swimmer and lunch. It is just trying to survive. But man views it differently. We see them as a predator to man, so it must be destroyed. We are the only animal on this Earth that kills out of revenge.
This way of thinking will be our demise. Why is it that every time a person (famous or infamous) dies because of an attack from an animal, we as humans go into ‘Genocide Mode’? “Kill ‘em all, what are they good for”, is the usual cry reported in the media from one-toothed morons who have a hard time spelling their first names!
It’s not enough that we persecute our own kind, we now deem it our responsibility to persecute animals which are lower down in the food chain than us! If we are truly charged with being the custodians of this Earth, we should be fired! We are doing a piss poor job.
One more thing. After the Earth shakes us off it’s skin like the bad rash that we are, we’ll be gone. But the Shark will still be here because it’s a survivor
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