Crocodile Hunter, Steve Irwin, dead at 44 on the set!

[MarkM]

The warning was far from vague, BBC News 24 is available in the states just have to know where to look and the content was english in meaning but none the less still inappropriate. If people were to start posting all the 9/11 'funny' pictures would they be appropriate even now I mean heck the 5 year anniversary is this weekend. Until such time as the rules regarding the PG nature of this forum are changed bans WILL be handed out.
Steve Irwin may indeed have seen the humour in the picture/s but then again maybe not either way he was an adult who made adult choices in his life, the stink concerning his son and the crocodile feeding incident caused him to rethink his approach to make a statement, didn't do it again did he? Post an inappropriate picture of any subject on AO and you run the risk of a ban, in most cases a post deletion is the limit but when a specific warning was given...afterall the latitude to include a video was also given so this picture came under this heading.

[Altimas]

It was pretty PG to me.

[thecavemankevin]

Until such time as the rules regarding the PG nature of this forum are changed bans WILL be handed out.

[MarkM]

The ban will stand, had I handed down a 3 day, the result would have been 'oh well it's only 3 days I don't care', a ban should have an effect and this certainly has. I notice the selective reading of my last post and no comments about 9/11.
In 3 days time when this will undoubtedly be remembered, will it be appropriate to post so called PG pictures about potential death and suffering...NO it will not. Contextually a picture has a place in the right place, the picture that caused this in a year or two perhaps might have been allowed to slide, then again maybe not.

To all those jumping to rkjunior303's defence, I had already warned ALL users on the first page of this thread, so any claims of 'I didn't get a warning' are totally null and void. Selective mis-reading or otherwise is no defence.

This is an end of this subject as far as I am concerned, any further bleats will be treated as a direct challenge to the directions of the moderators and we all know where that will go, so complain elsewhere as here is NOT the place.

[SCpoloRicker]

Guys, mayhaps there is an alternative venue to discuss these issues?

*cough*

[Thordic]

If AGD put the amount of effort into marketing that they do into banning people for stupid reasons, they'd be one hell of a successful company.

[Smoke]

I'm so sad...I will miss you Croc man.

I was a big fan of his shows, and he was definately on my list of people I wanted to meet.

[BigEvil]

If AGD put the amount of effort into marketing that they do into banning people for stupid reasons, they'd be one hell of a successful company.

Im making this into a hopper sticker

[wad04]

I don't think being stabbed through the heart is funny.

[lopxtc]

Amazing how placement on the human body can make a huge difference in the way we view things. Through the heart ... no. Through the groin .. funny as hell.


Aaron

I don't think being stabbed through the heart is funny.

[wad04]

getting "hit in the balls" and getting stabbed in the heart are different. I've personally never heard of someone getting stabbed in the groin.

[maxama10]

...absurd

[Pickle]

Sighh,

Steve Irwin is not even buried yet and you guys are fighting over an animation ridiculing his death. At the very least it is in extremely poor taste. I'm with MarkM on this one.

[kosmo]

Yeah but we are all going to have forgotten about this by the time he is buried. I mean seriously now, playing with giant stingray has got to at least qualify for a darwin award.

[wad04]

2 people in australia have been killed... EVER. swimming with stingrays might be dangerous, but not deadly.