MetaFilter posts tagged with Daredevil

Please keep your arms and legs inside the OH MY GOD THERE'S NO FREAKING CAR!!!

mudpuppie — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 14:26:02 -0800

German inline skater Dirk Auer rides a roller coaster... on roller skates. (Video.)

The nearest to being alive.

mudpuppie — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 10:00:41 -0800

Dare Devil Alma Skinner started riding the Wall of Death at the age of 18, doing the same tricks as the men (including her future husband, Skid Skinner). Hear her reminisce -- she did it "for money reasons." [Real Media grumble.] She died in 2008 at the age of 98. Previous post on the Wall of Death.

Mega Air

netbros — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 08:27:49 -0800

New Extreme Sports. Mega ramp skateboarding, ostrich racing, underwater golfing, pole dancing and pillow fighting are just a few of the innovative new sports you may see in future X Games. (via SpoFi)

Vintage Vertiginous Vaudevillian

tellurian — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 15:09:49 -0800

Ben Dova the Drunk Daredevil, contortionist, Hindenburg survivor and one of the 10 most unfortunately named people on the internets.

Butte, Montana's least favorite son: Evel Knievel

photoslob — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 20:47:09 -0800

What does it feel like to crash? "What the hell do you think it feels like? Christ almighty. It hurts." Evel Knievel was the original Jackass and now he's living out his days like most elderly retirees in Florida: tired, cranky and on oxygen.

Racing freehanded up a cliff face

jonson — Wed, 23 Nov 2005 19:16:13 -0800

Short film of climber Dan Osman scaling Lover's Leap in California without ropes, racing over 400 vertical feet in just under four & a half minutes. Link goes to direct wmv download. Having never heard of Osman before, I was shocked to find out that his daredevil ways led to an early death when a rope snapped while Osman was performing a modfied form of bungie jumping in Yosemite back in 1999.

Put 'em on the glass

soyjoy — Fri, 26 Aug 2005 13:27:50 -0800

Walk out over 4,000 feet of thin air... Man, it gives me the willies just to think about being out there.

But I'm fighting Hitler..!

Shane — Mon, 10 Nov 2003 07:41:33 -0800

Daredevil and Captain America Hang Out... at the Quickstop.
(Warning: Flash --and geekfare!-- follow.)

aurelian — Thu, 30 Nov 2000 10:42:36 -0800

When headlines go bad (Part the Nth) With a headline like, "Daredevil Carried From Ice Cell After 2-1/2 Days," you'd think it was about Matt Murdock, Marvel Comics' Man Without Fear (tm), after a fight with Mr. Freeze... But no, just some guy in an ice block for a publicity stunt. Shame, really...