Bat Attack Victim Wants Evel Knievel's Money

[The Straight Story]

Bat Attack Victim Wants Evel Knievel's Money
Promoter Awarded $13M From Daredevil In 1977


LOS ANGELES -- Of all the bones Evel Knievel broke over the years, the costliest may have been the left arm of a PR man by the name of Shelly Saltman.

Saltman won $12.75 million in damages against Knievel after the motorcycle daredevil attacked him with a baseball bat in 1977 in a rage over a book Saltman had written about the showman.

With interest, the still-uncollected sum has grown to more than $100 million by Saltman's estimate, and he intends to try to collect it.


"We are going hot and heavy after his estate," Saltman told The Associated Press after Knievel died Friday at 69. "What he tried to do to me and how it hurt my family, I'm owed that."

Whether Knievel's estate has that kind of money is unclear.

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[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. When I read that headline I immediately thought of the other kind of bat.

Like maybe Evel Knievel was a vampire or something.

[TomInTib]

3. Same here.

I also read signs painted on pavement in the reverse order (top-down) of what was intended.

You?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

8. Me, too.

I also read the backward signs on ambulances literally: ECNALUBMA.

[TomInTib]

9. Well....

you know what they say about great minds...

[flvegan]

2. Good luck. California judgment liens expire in 10 years if not renewed

for another 10. In which case, I think they're out of luck. I think they aren't enforceable after that. This is, of course, off the top of my head, and having been wrong in the past, I may well be wrong about this.

[Tempest]

4. HaHa! He's shit out of luck if he didn't renew before the end of the 10 year period

And the renewal has to be done within 30 days of the expiration date.

[pinniped]

5. I guess this chump's stupid trash talking book didn't sell that well back then.

I imagine the Knievel family was hurt by his stupid book, too.

"What he tried to do to me and how it hurt my family, I'm owed that."

Knievel complained at the time that Saltman's book, "Evel Knievel on Tour," insulted his family and portrayed him as "an alcoholic, a pill addict, an anti-Semite and an immoral person."

[Mr_Monday]

6. What an ass!

A broken arm is not worth 12 million and it's especially unworthy of the "righteous" indignation felt by Saltman.

[bluestateguy]

7. It might be time for this person to let it go. It was 30 years ago.

Geez, a few days after someone dies and you badger a greiving family over money from a scrape that took place 30 years ago.

[tinymontgomery]

10. The history channel

just had a two hour show on about Evel Knievel. They should the film of this guy getting beat and what Evel had to say about it later in life. Evel also spent some time in prison for beating the guy. By what Evel said the guys book was a hit piece on Evel and his family. Never read the book so I don't know but the show was kind of interesting since I was a kid back when he was big.

[razors edge]

11. Put his ass on a harley,

give him twenty greyhounds and a ramp, if he makes it, give him the cash.

If he chickens out, let him go pound sand.