Evel Knievel

[pumpkin]

CLEARWATER, Fla. - 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.

[KRU ZNN]

WOW!! Died of natural causes not from the stunts!!
May he RIP..8-)

[Dreamcast18]

Heard he has broken every single bone in his body....must have hurt in his later years.

Can you imagine he goes to Heaven and folks up there calls him 'Hey Evil!' ;-)

Him and Jackie Chan are a dying breed.

[Diny]

For him to have made the best entrance into heaven, he shouldve died doing a stunt. What better way than arriving at the pearly gates than slamming into them?

[Xray]

Sad very Sad :frown: