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Evel Knievel Dies at 69 - D-Rod - 11-30-2007
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8T88HHG1&show_article=1
Iconic Daredevil Evel Knievel Dies at 69
Nov 30 06:01 PM US/Eastern
By MITCH STACY
Associated Press Writer
CLEARWATER, Fla. (AP) - Evel Knievel, the red-white-and-blue-spangled motorcycle daredevil whose jumps over crazy obstacles including Greyhound buses, live sharks and Idaho's Snake River Canyon made him an international icon in the 1970s, died Friday. He was 69.
Knievel's death was confirmed by his granddaughter, Krysten Knievel. He had been in failing health for years, suffering from diabetes and pulmonary fibrosis, an incurable condition that scarred his lungs.
Knievel had undergone a liver transplant in 1999 after nearly dying of hepatitis C, likely contracted through a blood transfusion after one of his bone-shattering spills.
Longtime friend and promoter Billy Rundel said Knievel had trouble breathing at his Clearwater condominium and died before an ambulance could get him to a hospital.
"It's been coming for years, but you just don't expect it. Superman just doesn't die, right?" Rundel said.
Immortalized in the Washington's Smithsonian Institution as "America's Legendary Daredevil," Knievel was best known for a failed 1974 attempt to jump Snake River Canyon on a rocket-powered cycle and a spectacular crash at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas. He suffered nearly 40 broken bones before he retired in 1980.
May he rest in peace.
Re: Evel Knievel Dies at 69 - jdc - 11-30-2007
hes still dead?
Re: Evel Knievel Dies at 69 - incognegro - 11-30-2007
So it goes.
Great one-sided single on this page for 99 cents, a song called Snake River.
Performed by a local band, members from Philly and Bethlehem.
http://www.beefeaterrecords.com/home.html
You can listen to a preview of it on that page, too.
Re: Evel Knievel Dies at 69 - SteveO - 11-30-2007
RIP. Had an EK lunchbox when I was a kid. As well as the hand-cranked cycle and EK "action figure." Both rocked. As did EK. That fella' did some hard livin'!
Re: Evel Knievel Dies at 69 - N-OS X-tasy! - 11-30-2007
69 was about the number of lives the guy had, too, 60 more than your average cat.
Re: Evel Knievel Dies at 69 - timg - 11-30-2007
He died again?? Damn, guess this proves he had a hard life.
Re: Evel Knievel Dies at 69 - Jack D. - 11-30-2007
The passing of another legend. They don't make 'em like this anymore. Brad Pitt doesn't pass.
Re: Evel Knievel Dies at 69 - JoeBob - 12-01-2007
I had all the EK toys as well, and we built many ramps to jump bikes over as kids.
Amazing that WE didn't have many broken bones, with all the EK wannabes in my neighborhood.
Re: Evel Knievel Dies at 69 - D-Rod - 12-01-2007
Oooops, jdc already posted it here: http://forums.macresource.com/read/1/393738. Sorry.