"Stingrays only sting in defence, they're not aggressive animals so the animal must have felt threatened. It didn't sting out of aggression, it stung out of fear," Dr Bryan Fry, Deputy Director of the Australian Venom Research Unit at the University of Melbourne said.
OK, it's sad that he's dead, but what's he doing going around provoking animals like that in the first place?
What's this obsession with showing animals as dangerous in the name of entertainment?