Friday, November 30, 2007
Evil is dead
Daredevil motorcyclist Evel Knievel sails over 13 Mack trucks in theopen-air Canadian national exhibition stadium in Toronto, Canada,
in this Aug. 20, 1974. Knievel, the hard-living motorcycle daredevil
whose exploits made him an international icon in the
1970s, died Friday, Nov. 30, 2007. He was 69.
Some things in the news really strike Jed. I watched this man do some crazy stunts in my youth and was very impressed. In fact I owned his collection of action figures and motorcycle vehicles.
I think taking time to honor a daredevil can't make matters worse.
:: posted by Tennessee Jed, 5:23 PM
4 Comments:
...and he did it all on an Harley Davidson!
R.I.P to Evel. He was a lot of fun.
he brung a smile to my face near ever time he tride innythang .. n that dont make nuthin wurse.
One of the first films I went to see on my own was the 1971 feature starring George Hamlton, "Evel Kneivel". I'd never heard of him before and I enjoyed it a lot. It was a double header with the T-Rex film, "Born to Boogie". Neither of those films made matters worse.
