Billy Mays dies

[DanOregon]

Discovery is airing a Billy Mays "Pitchmen" tribute at 9 p.m. Tonight (Thursday).

 

[ifilus]

18 mins ago

TAMPA, Fla. – An autopsy report says cocaine contributed to the death of TV pitchman Billy Mays.

The 50-year bearded TV personality died of a heart attack in his sleep. His wife found him unresponsive June 28 at their condo in Tampa, Fla.

A release from the Hillsborough County medical examiner's office Friday said Mays had last used cocaine days before his death.

The report said that although Mays died from heart disease, cocaine use was a contributing cause of death.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090807/ap_en_ot/us_billy_mays_1


UPDATE: Official documents show the following drugs were in Mays' system -- hydrocodone (Vicodin), oxycodone (painkiller), alprazolam (Xanax), nordiazepam (Valium), benzoylecgonine (byproduct of cocaine) and temazepam (anti-anxiety). Ethanol -- alcohol -- was also in Mays' system.

 

[BYH]

Holy ****. With a combo like that he should have been driving the wrong way on a highway in NY.

 

[imjustagirl]

If I'd read this earlier, my pick 'em team name would have been Billy Mays' Drug Cocktail.

 

[BYH]

It's never too late to change, IJAG.

 

[imjustagirl]

Eh, I like making fun of homicides instead of basically a suicide.

 

[BYH]

Eh, I like making fun of homicides instead of basically a suicide.

You're beautiful.

 

[Bubbler]

Billy Mays for ... blow! The white powder that gets results!

Eh, I like making fun of homicides instead of basically a suicide.

Oops. Uh, too soon? (searching for blank-faced emoticon that feigns shame)

Also, I'm sure the airline Mays flew on before he died feels real sympathetic to his plight after it was implied that it was responsible shortly after he died.

 

[Some Guy]

Billy Mays was on blow? I'm shocked. He seemed so subdued in his commercials.

 

[Trey Beamon]

"Crack hits at work? That's much better than work at work!"

 

[imjustagirl]

"Crack hits at work? That's much better than work at work!"

I love you most of all.

 

[Trey Beamon]

The Sham-wow guy punches a hooker. Billy Mays overdoses on coke.

What's next? John Shearer's S & M lair made of unused computer learning CDs?

 

[ColbertNation]

Billy Mays here for OxyContin ... I mean OxiClean.

 

[PCLoadLetter]

The coke made his heart go Kaboom!

 

[Bubbler]

The Sham-wow guy punches a hooker. Billy Mays overdoses on coke.

What's next? John Shearer's S & M lair made of unused computer learning CDs?

The world of TV pitchmen is a seedy, unforgiving, but at times, bacchanalian place, Trey.

We've all heard the stories, right? Tony Little's penchant for four-ways with his exercise beauties. Matthew Lesko's chronic hallucinations where sees green skies full of yellow question marks. Encyclopedia Brittanica guy blissfully doing lines of coke off Ron Popeil's ass.

Uh, right?

 

[imjustagirl]

I'll bet she is a TIGER in the sack. Especially after viewing child porn.

 

[BYH]

The coke made his heart go Kaboom!

Outstanding.

 

[Armchair_QB]

What's next? John Shearer's S & M lair made of unused computer learning CDs?

Well, that's a mental image I could do without.

 

[Bad Guy Zero]

Ron Popeil enjoys the occassional peanut butter enema?

 

[Ace]

Ron Popeil enjoys the occassional peanut butter enema?

But wait! There's more.