Steve Irwins dad trashes dkhead American influencers viral crocodile-catching videos

The father of Australia’s famous “Crocodile Hunter” Steve Irwin has unleashed on an American influencer who posted viral videos of himself catching crocodiles in Far North Queensland.Mike Holston — also known as ‘The Real Tarzan’ on social media — shared a clip of himself on Friday jumping out of a boat and chasing a freshwater crocodile through ankle-deep water before diving on it.He is seen laughing as he holds the reptile around the neck and claims, “this is what dreams are made of”.

The 31-year-old, with 15.5 million followers on Instagram alone, said he had dreamed of coming to Australia and seeing crocodiles up close since he was a child.A couple of days later, despite backlash, there was a new video.This time Holston chased and caught a small saltwater crocodile on a riverbank.

The saltie was still and silent while the influencer held it by the neck, which experts say is completely uncharacteristic.In both videos the crocs were seen being released and were tagged as being filmed at Lockhart River on the Cape York Peninsula.Now Steve Irwin’s father Bob Irwin has come out swinging.“People visiting our country need to respect our wildlife, or they need to be booted out the door,” he argued in an impassioned statement on Wednesday, which described Mr Holston as a “d*ckhead” and advocated for new nature laws to apply to social media.The 86-year-old conservationist slammed anyone trying to justify Holston’s act by saying, “but Steve Irwin did it”.“This isn’t a Steve Irwin issue,” Bob said.“This is about an individual interfering with protected fauna.”He said comparing Holston’s behavior to his son’s “really gets under (his) skin”.“You can’t even put them in the same sentence,” he said, calling for the influencer to be prosecuted to the fullest extent current legislation allows.“In this video the crocodile is clearly under extreme stress – it’s disgusting,” he continued, referring to the freshwat...