Knievel assault victim waiting for €68m payout

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.

He won $12.75 million (€8.7m) in damages against Knievel after the motorcycle daredevil attacked him with a baseball bat in 1977 over a book Mr Saltman had written about the showman.

With interest, the still-uncollected sum has grown to more than $100m (€68m) by Mr Saltman’s estimate.