Stabbed with a what?

An interesting factoid from Wikipedia (my primary Internet source for truthiness) on the stingray species that killed Steve Irwin: it was a short-tailed stingray, or bull ray, and they can be up to 14 feet long and weigh more than 350 kg (771 lbs).

There was also a quote by documentary filmmaker Ben Cropp, who saw the tape of the incident. "It stopped and twisted and threw up its tail with the spike, and it caught him in the chest. It's a defensive thing. It's like being stabbed with a dirty cock." Hmm...either cock means something different in Australia than it does here, or there's been some vandalism.

Update: it appears the latter. The word has been changed to "dagger." From the discussion on the Wikipedia site I'm guessing that it's some sort of reference to a god-awful nutty Australian feminist who made some badly-received public comments that basically Irwin got what he deserved.