Death of a Daredevil: Evel Knievel, RIP

[{OF}MadD!]

In a decade largely absent of heroes, Evel Knievel was a real-life superhero.

Knievel, the caped 1970s showman who, thanks to a trusty chopper and sheer abandon, jumped land and water masses with a single bound (and sometimes a few bounces), and landed among the Watergate era's pop-culture elite, died Friday, the Associated Press reported.

Knievel was 69—not ancient, but not bad for a man who bragged about making the Guinness Book of World Records on the strength, as it were, of 35 broken bones.

E! News - Death of a Daredevil: Evel Knievel, RIP

[{DvT}JonahHex]

The man had cojones.

[{OF}Malicious Assault]

Sorry about his death, but saying he was a super hero I wouldn't go that far. I met him when i was younger and he was an a$$. Asked him for an Autograph and he told me to F*** off. He was a foul mouth loser as far as I am concern.