Friday, November 30, 2007

Evel Knievel Dead at 69

Evel Knievel, the flamboyant motorcycle stuntman whose thrilling triumphs and spectacular failures enshrined him as America's consummate daredevil, died today in Clearwater, Fla. He was 69.

2 comments:

The Loremaster said...

How depressing, felled by pulmonary fibrosis ... if anyone ever deserved to go out in a raging ball of white-hot fury, it was Evel Knievel.

Although, I do hear they're gonna launch his hearse over Snake River Canyon ...

~R said...

a specially made sky hearse...