{"id":673,"date":"2006-09-14T16:47:47","date_gmt":"2006-09-14T16:47:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=673"},"modified":"2006-09-14T16:47:47","modified_gmt":"2006-09-14T16:47:47","slug":"fanboy_vengeance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2006\/09\/14\/fanboy_vengeance\/","title":{"rendered":"Fanboy Vengeance?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been around plenty of fannish types in my time, and I&#8217;ve seen a lot of outlandish behavior perpetrated for the love of a particular media personality or property. I&#8217;m generally inclined to excuse such silliness with a shrug and an indulgent smile.<br \/>\nHowever, if <a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalgeographic.com\/news\/2006\/09\/060913-hunter.html\">this item<\/a> is true, it is one of the most asinine, repugnant things I&#8217;ve ever heard about:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In the wake of &#8220;Crocodile Hunter&#8221; Steve Irwin&#8217;s death by stingray, some fans may be carrying out revenge attacks against the fish.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As many as ten stingrays have been found dead, with their tails cut off, along the southern coast of Australia&#8217;s Queensland state.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The article takes pains to point out that these mutilations may have nothing to do with Irwin&#8217;s recent death, but I wouldn&#8217;t be surprised to hear that they do. And even though I <a title=\"The Crocodile Hunter\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/2006\/09\/the_crocodile_hunter\/\">didn&#8217;t think very highly<\/a> of Mr. Irwin&#8217;s stage persona, I can&#8217;t imagine that he&#8217;d be anything but utterly appalled by these acts, regardless of who is performing them or why. If the stingrays are indeed being killed by misguided Irwin fans, I can only say, to paraphrase the immortal Shatner, &#8220;Grow the f**k up, people&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been around plenty of fannish types in my time, and I&#8217;ve seen a lot of outlandish behavior perpetrated for the love of a particular media personality or property. I&#8217;m generally inclined to excuse such silliness with a shrug and an indulgent smile. However, if this item is true, it is one of the most [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-ramblings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}