Whoops!

There is probably a good reason why nobody has launched a truck off a ramp to execute a backflip.  Despite that, Rhys Millen wants to be the first - here he is, the crazy guy, practicing in Las Vegas for Red Bull's New Year's Experiment, 2007.  Unfortunately for Millen, he suffered "an unfortunate" accident leaving him with five fractured vertebrae which occurred, according to Red Bull, when Millen's truck overshot the landing area of cardboard boxes. Unfortunate, indeed. Last time he does that one, dude. 

Smarts run in the family, they say.  Take Robbie Knievel, 47, who will try to jump over 16-buses at Wembley Stadium, west London, in May on a "classic" Harley Davidson.  Recall Evil Knievel broke his pelvis during his 1975 bid to jump 13 buses.  Hmmm I am sure that I have heard a story about some idiot trying to earn his father's respect by doing stupid things? So Robbie began jumping his bicycle at age-four and rode motorcycles at age-seven.  By eight, he performed his first show with his dad at Madison Square Garden. At 12, he was on tour with Evil where he would perform in the pre-jump shows.  Robbie attended South Central Catholic Jr. High School in Butte, Montana but never graduated. He wanted to lengthen his jumps but Dad disapproved. No shit, I might add (source: 'Evel*Ways, A Daring Approach to Life'; GraF X Publishing). Seems to me, like Iraq and maybe Afghanistan, the sixteen-buses a suicide trip.  At least Robbie qualified to take the decision.

"My wife and I, we like to ride where there's not much traffic."

--Evil Knievel