"Knievel was fired when he made the earth mover do a motorcycle-type wheelie and accidentally drove it into Butte's main power line, leaving the city without electricity for several hours." oh, Evel, I didn't think you could get EVEN MORE AWESOME, but you did https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evel_Knievel
@codinghorror I wouldn't expect a daredevil to actually have an origin story, but there we go.
