Steve Irwin's son bitten by snake - Terri is thrilled

[A*O]

I seriously think this woman is batshit crazy.

Baby Bob Irwin cops his first snake bite
February 19, 2008 - 7:49AM


Like father, like son?

The 4-year-old son of Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin was not at all alarmed when he was recently bitten by a baby boa constrictor, according to his mother.

"He picked one of them up and it bit him on the finger, and he was so proud to have copped his first hit," Irwin's widow, Terri, said today at an appearance at the FAO Schwarz toy store with her two children to promote a new line of toys.

"He said, 'I hope it wasn't venomous', so I assured Robert I wouldn't actually let him play with venomous snakes," she said.

Terri Irwin said the couple's 9-year-old daughter, Bindi, was first bitten by a snake when she was 18-months old. The girl, who is featured in the Discovery Kids Channel show Bindi the Jungle Girl, posed for cameras with a new action figure in her likeness.

Steve Irwin, the Australian nature TV host known for wrangling crocodiles and snakes, died in 2006 from a stingray's barbed tail during an underwater documentary shoot. He was 44.

Irwin provoked an international outcry in 2004 after being filmed holding his then one-month-old son while feeding a crocodile.

AP

[Dixie Normos]

Boas aren't poisonous, are they?

[Fabularosa]

A four year old says "I hope it wasn't venomous?" Sounds like Stewie.

[TaffyMoon]

There is something seriously wrong with this woman.

[A*O]

No they aren't venomous - I'm more appalled by Terri's attitude. Stewie......

[CCkissesx]

I bet she was proud he copped a bite too?

With all the controversy Bindi already causes, why oh WHY would she want to share this? Terri is very weird.

[Dixie Normos]

I dunno, I think laughing off a bite or fall is healthier than getting hysterical. Kids with hysterical parents tend to over play every scrape and bruise, they're the ones that sob and sniffle for 2 hours over a hang nail, and grow up to be time wasters at the emerg room.

[Laurent]

"He said, 'I hope it wasn't venomous', so I assured Robert I wouldn't actually let him play with venomous snakes," she said.

Of course not, because that would be irresponsible parenting.

Is she fucking kidding?

[Honey]

And on that Irwin note...



Terri Irwin denies Bindi is over-exposed

IT'S something very few mothers ever have to do - attend a toy fair to launch a doll modelled on their daughter.
But as Terri Irwin proudly held a Bindi doll in each hand yesterday, she insisted her nine-year-old daughter was just a "normal little girl".

"She is still a nine-year-old human being. She is a real girl, she is not nine going on 35, she is intellectually very developed but she is still a kid who loves to play with dolls," Mrs Irwin, who has weathered controversy over her daughter's increasingly public life, said.

"She takes being a role model seriously, she equates what she does with being a teacher, like her teacher Miss Emma.

"Steve was such an example as one man doing what he could to change the world. Bindi wants to encourage kids to dream big and follow their dreams."

Mrs Irwin was left to launch the doll, which plays recorded messages from Bindi, at a New York toy fair alone after organisers banned children.

Bindi and her mother declined a special offer to allow her to attend because other children were unable to see the wonderland of toys.

"They said they would make an exception for Bindi, I said 'No thank you, I don't want Bindi to grow up being the exception'," Mrs Irwin said.

"I don't want to cultivate a sense of one child being any more (important)."

Bindi saw the dolls, which repeat favourite sayings such as "love it, don't hurt it", on Saturday night in New York and told her mother it was every girl's dream to have their own doll.

Mrs Irwin also cautioned that her daughter, who has been at the centre of controversy about her extensive public commitments, was still a child.

Bindi's young brother Robert is the only family member not to have a doll, with dolls of Mrs Irwin and her crocodile hunter husband already on sale.

Proceeds from the sale of the dolls will go to the family's conservation work.

Terri Irwin denies Bindi is over-exposed | NEWS.com.au

Who wants their own Bindi doll?

[southernbelle]

I wouldn't let a 4 year old play with ANY snake, venomous or not. And bragging that Bindi was bitten at 18 months? There's no reason for a baby to be in the presence of snakes. They might enjoy playing with them at home, under Terri's supervision, but what happens when they get overconfident and approach a snake in the wild?

This photo creeps me out.

[KristiB]

Yeah I remember the first time daddy put me in the rattlesnake pit.

Then we went swimming with sharks. No wimp ass cages back in my day though. We kicked it old school and smacked them on the nose when they got to close. Wrestled my first grizzly at 8...I was a late bloomer.

[laynes]

Originally Posted by KristiB

Yeah I remember the first time daddy put me in the rattlesnake pit.

Then we went swimming with sharks. No wimp ass cages back in my day though. We kicked it old school and smacked them on the nose when they got to close. Wrestled my first grizzly at 8...I was a late bloomer.

[joy0923]

Cute picture of the kids...


Yeah I remember the first time daddy put me in the rattlesnake pit.

LOL

[mklady]

Originally Posted by southernbelle

I wouldn't let a 4 year old play with ANY snake, venomous or not. And bragging that Bindi was bitten at 18 months? There's no reason for a baby to be in the presence of snakes. They might enjoy playing with them at home, under Terri's supervision, but what happens when they get overconfident and approach a snake in the wild?

Well, my son was about 2 or 3 when we came across a black snake in the back yard. I blame the beagle for finding the darn thing but I was standing at least 20 feet away from my son when he just casually pointed out "Mommy, Gracie found a snake, it's right there" and started walking over to it! The best I could do was yell "baby, I know, now COME HERE".

[sputnik]

Originally Posted by Honey

that picture!
she really is the original fugmuppet.