Being Evel Page #2

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on the back one.

you never knew what he was gonna

do with that motorcycle in town.

i mean, he'd be riding it

all over raising--

raising hell with everybody.

pat burns:
he liked to have

the cops chase him.

you just couldn't catch him

on a bike

when you were in a patrol car.

( rock 'n' roll music playing )

linda bork knievel:

one day i go run up

to the store,

and who's up there,

but big bad knievel, you know?

he was a character.

( laughs )

i was scared,

but i was kind of flattered,

you know?

gee,

he's paying attention to me,

and then one day he just said,

"you're gonna marry me."

( laughs )

the story

is that he kidnapped her.

rowling:
well, i don't know

if he kidnapped her or not.

you know, that might have been--

that might have been something

that they were planning

together anyhow, who knows?

yeah, i guess i was kidnapped.

i think i was just walking home

from school that day

when he said,

"get in the car,"

you know?

( laughs )

i don't know, i was just--

something just almost like

overtook me,

and he drove me down

to dillon and, uh,

danged if we didn't

get married there.

he had some weird ideas

about how life should be lived.

and he--

he thought that he should be at

the top of the heap, you know?

i figure that's why he did

the stuff he did to make money.

he'd run 'em,

there'll be a shady side to it.

he was happier

if there was something

a little shady about it.

linda knievel:

he made up his own job.

actually, he started working

as a security officer at night.

he had a route

where he used to go around

at 2:
00 in the morning,

3:
00 in the morning

and check all the different

establishments.

you'd pay him to be sure

the doors were locked

and everything,

and if you didn't pay him,

you might be robbed

within a month or so.

he broke into my place.

he might have got 40 or $50,

something like that,

but not that--

nothing big.

yeah, he was-- he ran a racket.

no question about it.

the police called me up

and told me

that there was a known

safecracker in town.

now i knew they were talking

about evel.

he was a crook.

a con-man,

i guess you'd call him.

knoxville:

at the age of 19,

he starts a semi-pro hockey team

and convinces

the czechoslovakian

national team

to come to butte

to play them.

( laughs )

and the czechs kill 'em.

like, smoke 'em 22 to 3.

but i don't think evel

was that upset about the score.

pavlovich:

i think he left

in the middle

of the second period,

and the money disappeared.

there was no more money

to pay 'em.

so, you know,

draw your own conclusions.

where did the money go?

( laughs )

williams:
well,

butte likes people

who bounce up against

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