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ironic1 on November 30, 2007 07:28 PM|Permalink
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I happened to pass through his hometown (Butte, MT) one summer on my way home from a camping trip further south during Evel Knievel Days. It was a hoot. :+)
I filmed him jumping a bunch of buses in St. Paul, sometime in the early 1970s for WDIO-TV. About 2 hours of build-up for 4 anticlimatic seconds of airborne dare-devilishness. Memorable nonetheless.
Ya, if he made it then it was over quick. I always felt most people were there to watch him crash. I was sure glued to the tv when he tried to jet over the Snake River. To this day I wish that parachute had not opened too soon. No one has ever had the balls to try that again.
Anyone ever see on Michael Nesmith's Television Parts on NBC circa 1985, the skit where "Houdini the Pig" tried to jump the Snake River Canyon in a rocket with Bobcat Goldthwait doing the narrative play-by-play? One of the funniest things I've ever seen.
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I happened to pass through his hometown (Butte, MT) one summer on my way home from a camping trip further south during Evel Knievel Days. It was a hoot. :+)
Dude led a long, wacky life. As do many Butteans.
Posted by: Mary | November 30, 2007 10:35 PM
I filmed him jumping a bunch of buses in St. Paul, sometime in the early 1970s for WDIO-TV. About 2 hours of build-up for 4 anticlimatic seconds of airborne dare-devilishness. Memorable nonetheless.
Posted by: xpat | December 1, 2007 12:17 AM
I think that if you are from Butte, you should be call a Butane.
Posted by: Sherman | December 1, 2007 01:45 AM
Ya, if he made it then it was over quick. I always felt most people were there to watch him crash. I was sure glued to the tv when he tried to jet over the Snake River. To this day I wish that parachute had not opened too soon. No one has ever had the balls to try that again.
Posted by: Anarchy | December 1, 2007 11:39 AM
Anyone ever see on Michael Nesmith's Television Parts on NBC circa 1985, the skit where "Houdini the Pig" tried to jump the Snake River Canyon in a rocket with Bobcat Goldthwait doing the narrative play-by-play? One of the funniest things I've ever seen.
Posted by: -Berv | December 5, 2007 05:07 PM