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Evil Knievel Dead

  • 30-11-2007 10:06pm
    #1
    Dord
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,817 ✭✭✭✭


    Evil Knievel dead at aged 69

    CLEARWATER, Fla. (AP) -- Evel Knievel, the hard-living motorcycle daredevil whose jumps over 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.


Comments

  • #2
    Binomate
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,783 ✭✭✭Binomate


    I wasn't arsed reading any further than "Evil Knievel Dead". Was he killed by a sting ray?


  • #3
    Screwthe unions
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35 ✭Screwthe unions


    Was he the guy who tried jumpping the fountains at Ceasers palace in Las Vegas and broke nearly every bone in his body??...Iv seen that vid a few times on "Worlds most shocking moments caught on tape"...hosted by Sheriff John Bunell(retired).


  • #4
    MarkR
    Moderators, Regional Midwest Moderators Posts: 11,183 Mod ✭✭✭✭MarkR


    Binomate wrote: »
    I wasn't arsed reading any further than "Evil Knievel Dead". Was he killed by a sting ray?

    Nope. Was Deceptacon. Died saving optimus prime. Very sad. Very brave.


  • #5
    Wishbone Ash
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,038 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    Anyone have the Evil Knievel motorbike and ramp that was all the go in 1975? :D


  • #6
    Screwthe unions
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35 ✭Screwthe unions


    Wishbone Ash wrote: »
    Anyone have the Evil Knievel motorbike and ramp that was all the go in 1975? :D


    what!!...so you could try it at home??


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  • #7
    blue diver
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35 ✭blue diver


    yep Santa gave me one of his rockets i tried jumping my da car broke the dam thing


  • #8
    Belfafter
    Closed Accounts Posts: 28 ✭Belfafter


    The evel knevel toy was the bestest ever.
    It was pretty indestructible too,I seem to rember my still working long after evel was lost and the bike was barely 2 wheels and that big scary flywheel.
    Its the first toy i rember getting where I was so heavily influenced by the tv ad - ok maybe scaelextric was first but it wasnt as good as the ad - evel was:)


  • #9
    Terry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,061 ✭✭✭✭Terry


    Wishbone Ash wrote: »
    Anyone have the Evil Knievel motorbike and ramp that was all the go in 1975? :D
    Would have been about 1980 for me, but I did have one.

    Binomate, stop trolling.


  • #10
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,972 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    Evel was no Kiddie Ed!

    Mike.


  • #11
    WindSock
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,239 ✭✭✭✭WindSock


    Aw, RIP to the unbrakeable man with the rhyming name.


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  • #12
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    I thought he was long dead actually.


  • #13
    leninbenjamin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,983 ✭✭✭leninbenjamin


    it's actually pretty amazing that he didn't die doing a stunt. kinda takes from his immortality a bit though.


  • #14
    lucyburn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 171 ✭✭lucyburn


    Binomate wrote: »
    I wasn't arsed reading any further than "Evil Knievel Dead". Was he killed by a sting ray?

    Show some respect.
    you ill mannered so and so.


  • #15
    Wishbone Ash
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,038 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    leninbenjamin wrote: »
    kinda takes from his immortality a bit though.
    I think it adds to it!


  • #16
    aequinoctium
    Closed Accounts Posts: 667 ✭✭✭aequinoctium


    what a guy


  • #17
    ScumLord
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,789 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    I don't know whether I've more or less respect for him having not died jumping over something.

    Due to my dislopisca I don't know if I whether is the rain, sun general sky related goings on, or the word I meant to say.


  • #18
    Pj!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,783 ✭✭✭Pj!


    One of those people that everyone has heard of.

    Respect. R.I.P.


  • #19
    marcsignal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,072 ✭✭✭marcsignal


    Dead as crabmeat alright :(

    http://www.deadoraliveinfo.com/dead.nsf/knames-nf/Knievel+Evel


  • #20
    ScumLord
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,789 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    Forky wrote: »
    One of those people that everyone has heard of.

    Respect. R.I.P.
    Who is rip anyway?


  • #21
    Pj!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,783 ✭✭✭Pj!


    ScumLord wrote: »
    Who is rip anyway?

    Yore ma is R.I.P.


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  • #22
    Terry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,061 ✭✭✭✭Terry


    Hi.
    See post #9.
    Next one gets you an infraction for backseat modding.


  • #23
    ScumLord
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,789 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    So she's some sort of masked avenger then?


  • #24
    Pj!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,783 ✭✭✭Pj!


    not exactly the words i'd use...


  • #25
    ScumLord
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,789 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    Forky wrote: »
    not exactly the words i'd use...
    It's close enough, never mind! It's obvious my mothers chain is far to long and I'm reducing it's length to 5 meters.


  • #26
    MagicMarker
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 32,865 ✭✭✭✭MagicMarker


    The guy liked to jump over stuff.


  • #27
    lucyburn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 171 ✭✭lucyburn


    MagicMarker wrote: »
    The guy liked to jump over stuff.

    He sure did, he jumped Yore Ma a couple of times I'm lead to believe.


  • #28
    marcsignal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,072 ✭✭✭marcsignal


    lucyburn wrote: »
    He sure did, he jumped Yore Ma a couple of times I'm lead to believe.

    you mean this one ??


  • #29
    Terry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,061 ✭✭✭✭Terry


    Lolololololololol
    That's so original.
    Read the charter.


  • #30
    gurramok
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,992 ✭✭✭✭gurramok


    Death of a legend, RIP


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  • #31
    marcsignal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,072 ✭✭✭marcsignal


    Terry wrote: »
    Lolololololololol
    That's so original.
    Read the charter.

    apologies, just passed the place in the U Bahn station today


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