Japanese Will Mourn Steve Irwin, Too

I kept hoping it was April 1st. After all, Steve Irwin had ‘died’ many times before, all of them myths, of course.

CNN reported that Steve Irwin was killed by a stingray while filming footage for a child’s show.

I spent nearly 20 years in Japan with my family. During that time, I never watched TV. The key word there is never.

However, when my older son came back to the US from Japan to attend high school he got hooked on a TV program on the Animal Planet. He asked me many times to watch it with him

He said, "It’s about some crazy guy handling alligators."

I wasn’t the least bit interested…but, my son persisted.

We watched it together once and have been ‘bitten" since.

Steve Irwin was/is great. A real crack-up and educator, too.

Please, somebody tell me that it’s April 1st and this is a bad joke.