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 Soretooth
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Fri Nov 30, 2007 5:50 pm Post subject: RIP Evel Knievel |
 
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http://www.reuters.com/article/sportsNews/idUSN3032852320071130
Daredevil Evel Knievel dies in Florida
ST. PETERSBURG, Florida (Reuters) - Daredevil Evel Knievel, who dodged death in a series of spectacular motorcycle leaps and crashes that made his name synonymous with showmanship, died on Friday at the age of 69, according to a message on his Web site.
The site read simply "Robert Craig 'Evel' Knievel October 17, 1938 - November 30, 2007."
He had been ill for some time.
In his heyday, the tempestuous showman dressed like a superhero for his jumps, wearing a red, white and blue leather jumpsuit with a cape and cane, his hair sculpted back in a tall pompadour.
Knievel's greatest stunt turned out to be a failure when on September 8, 1974, he tried to ride a rocket-powered motorcycle across the Snake River Canyon in Idaho.
With a nationwide pay-per-view television audience watching, the parachute deployed when Knievel's Skycycle X-2 was only about two-thirds across, sending the cycle into the canyon wall. It landed partly in the river, but Knievel walked away with minor injuries.
Reuters/Nielsen
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 Dami
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Sat Dec 01, 2007 3:23 am Post subject: |
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I thought nothing could stop this guy... well everyone has to die.
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baphomet
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Tue Dec 04, 2007 12:31 pm Post subject: |
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that sucks.
RIP.
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Death_Medic 
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Tue Dec 04, 2007 12:42 pm Post subject: |
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RIP Bro
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 metalero
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Sat Dec 15, 2007 9:38 pm Post subject: |
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He lived his life to the Extreme .........
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 Wally
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Sun Dec 16, 2007 4:05 am Post subject: |
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wth.
what a shame he was a great dare devil
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