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Evel Knievel dies at the age of 69
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Fri Nov 30, 2007 6:13 pmby Barricade
http://news.aol.com/story/_a/legendary-daredevil-evel-knievel-dies/20071130164609990001?ncid=NWS00010000000001CLEARWATER, Fla. (Nov. 30) - Evel Knievel, the red-white-and-blue-spangled 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.
Posted:
Fri Nov 30, 2007 6:45 pmby Shadowman
Huh. I didn't know he was still alive.
He's jumping over buses in Heaven now...
Posted:
Fri Nov 30, 2007 6:55 pmby Moonbase2
He just settled that lawsuit with Kanye West, too. Kenievel was a really conceited man, but I guess he earned it.
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Fri Nov 30, 2007 7:13 pmby Senor Hugo
Yeah, totally thought he was dead.
Now I won't be wrong.
Although, in his failing health, he should have attempted one last feat of death-defying goodness.
Like jumping 7 tanks of water filled with man-eating gun-toting sharks with lasers on their heads, with a rabid grizzly bear in the sidecar.
Posted:
Fri Nov 30, 2007 7:30 pmby Wheeljack35
Wow hewas close by
I'm near Clearwater
I remember him jumping things when I was a kid
Posted:
Fri Nov 30, 2007 9:10 pmby Neko
I feel bad that I was one of those people who thought he was dead.
So sad to see such an icon pass. RIP Daredevil.
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Sat Dec 01, 2007 6:02 amby olokin
He took life by the horns and lived hard.
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Sat Dec 01, 2007 5:11 pmby Siren Prime
Yup.
He definately did not leave without acomplishing anything.
Final Kudos to him!!
Posted:
Sat Dec 01, 2007 9:06 pmby Heavy B
Shadowman wrote:Huh. I didn't know he was still alive.
He's jumping over buses in Heaven now...
busses? hes probubly clearing heaven itself, hes evel "god damn" kenieval.
any way, i will now clear a bus on my dirt bike now as tribute
let 'im RIP
Posted:
Sat Dec 01, 2007 10:33 pmby Thanatos Prime
There truly will never be another Evel...
RIP Kinevel, show em' how it's done up there...
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Sun Dec 02, 2007 1:27 amby TheMuffin
He was an asshole.
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Sun Dec 02, 2007 3:54 amby Savage
I thought he was dead too. But I distinctly recall someone telling me that he had died. I coulda sworn it was just a couple months ago. Creepy.
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Sun Dec 02, 2007 5:08 amby Marty Rocket
Sad to hear it. RIP.
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Sun Dec 02, 2007 9:20 amby Venomous Prime
TheMuffin wrote:He was an asshole.
Unfortunately he was...
But he did a lot of really cool ****!
