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Sad:

Evel Knievel, the hard-living 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. He had been in failing health for years, suffering from diabetes and pulmonary fibrosis, an incurable condition that scarred his lungs.

The dude became a cultural icon by jumping buses and stuff off of ramps made of plywood while riding what was essentially a moped and somehow making it all look...cool.

I remember years ago on a vacation to the southwest somewhere we saw a burned out covered wagon with a sign next to it saying that Evel Knievel’s son had jumped the wagon while it was on fire.  That always sort of struck me.  Knievel was so famous that when his kid jumped a burning wagon, they left the wagon where it was and put up a sign.