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Title: Cocaine Contributed To Billy Mays' Death
Post by: Green Man on August 07, 2009, 06:15:12 PM: Quote
An autopsy shows that cocaine use contributed to the heart disease that suddenly killed boisterous TV pitchman Billy Mays in June, officials announced Friday.

The 50-year bearded TV personality died of a heart attack in his sleep after going to bed at his Tampa condo the night of June 27. His wife found him unresponsive the next morning.

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.

Mays was a pop-culture fixture with his energetic commercials pitching gadgets and cleaning products like Orange Glo and OxiClean.

The McKees Rocks, Pa., native developed his style demonstrating knives, mops and other "As Seen on TV" gadgets on Atlantic City's boardwalk. For years he worked as a hired gun on the state fair and home show circuits, attracting crowds with his booming voice and genial manner.

He got his start on TV on the Home Shopping Network and then branched out into commercials and infomercials. He developed such a strong following that he became the subject of a reality TV series, Discovery Channel's "Pitchmen."

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=111676391
Title: Re: Cocaine Contributed To Billy Mays' Death
Post by: Diunx on August 07, 2009, 06:27:50 PM: So the coke he took days before caused him a heart attack?
Title: Re: Cocaine Contributed To Billy Mays' Death
Post by: drew on August 07, 2009, 06:29:29 PM: this news hit #eb before eb

#eb > eb confirmed total etc
Title: Re: Cocaine Contributed To Billy Mays' Death
Post by: Trent Dole on August 07, 2009, 08:33:11 PM: GET ON THE 8BALL
Title: Re: Cocaine Contributed To Billy Mays' Death
Post by: lennedsay on August 07, 2009, 08:35:21 PM: it's one helluva drug
Title: Re: Cocaine Contributed To Billy Mays' Death
Post by: drew on August 07, 2009, 08:44:40 PM: Quote
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.

http://www.tmz.com/2009/08/07/autopsy-cocaine-a-factor-billy-mays-death/
Title: Re: Cocaine Contributed To Billy Mays' Death
Post by: Great Rumbler on August 07, 2009, 08:47:04 PM: Apparently he was having a contest with Michael Jackson for most drugs in system at a given time.
Title: Re: Cocaine Contributed To Billy Mays' Death
Post by: drew on August 07, 2009, 08:48:44 PM: i knew i liked him for some reason

KNEW

if i was found dead thats exactly what theyd find in my system to a t

a T
Title: Re: Cocaine Contributed To Billy Mays' Death
Post by: Eel O'Brian on August 07, 2009, 09:25:13 PM: well, that plus a bucket of jizz amirite
Title: Re: Cocaine Contributed To Billy Mays' Death
Post by: Joe Molotov on August 08, 2009, 12:02:20 AM: Went down like a rock star. RIP
Title: Re: Cocaine Contributed To Billy Mays' Death
Post by: ManaByte on August 08, 2009, 12:53:51 AM: "Hi Billy Mays here for White Lines Pro!"
Title: Re: Cocaine Contributed To Billy Mays' Death
Post by: Don Flamenco on August 08, 2009, 02:45:37 AM: ethanol? why ethanol...

as for coke, not surprising in the least.
Title: Re: Cocaine Contributed To Billy Mays' Death
Post by: Great Rumbler on August 08, 2009, 03:03:44 AM: Quote from: Kranz Fafka on August 08, 2009, 02:45:37 AM
ethanol? why ethanol...

as for coke, not surprising in the least.

Did a line a coke, went to the gas station to fill up his car, accidentally drank the gas.
Title: Re: Cocaine Contributed To Billy Mays' Death
Post by: Bocsius on August 08, 2009, 03:29:13 AM: I drink a lot of Coke. True story.
Title: Re: Cocaine Contributed To Billy Mays' Death
Post by: Christopher on August 08, 2009, 10:29:09 AM: I dunno I just don't understand why people abuse these drugs or become hooked on them in the first place...to me the idea of snorting something up my nose is stupid.
Title: Re: Cocaine Contributed To Billy Mays' Death
Post by: Bocsius on August 08, 2009, 12:55:48 PM: Quote from: drew on August 07, 2009, 08:44:40 PM
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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.

http://www.tmz.com/2009/08/07/autopsy-cocaine-a-factor-billy-mays-death/

Uncoincidentally, these are the ingredients of OxiClean.
Title: Re: Cocaine Contributed To Billy Mays' Death
Post by: drew on August 08, 2009, 01:40:27 PM: Quote from: Christopher on August 08, 2009, 10:29:09 AM
I dunno I just don't understand why people abuse these drugs or become hooked on them in the first place...to me the idea of snorting something up my nose is stupid.

feels good man
Title: Re: Cocaine Contributed To Billy Mays' Death
Post by: Phoenix Dark on August 08, 2009, 03:21:43 PM: Quote from: Christopher on August 08, 2009, 10:29:09 AM
I dunno I just don't understand why people abuse these drugs or become hooked on them in the first place...to me the idea of snorting something up my nose is stupid.

Drug use is disgusting, agreed. That includes alcohol and smoking
Title: Re: Cocaine Contributed To Billy Mays' Death
Post by: ch1nchilla on August 08, 2009, 03:26:44 PM: I mean... Is anyone here really that surprised that Billy Mays was doing blow?
Title: Re: Cocaine Contributed To Billy Mays' Death
Post by: drew on August 08, 2009, 04:57:42 PM: Quote from: Phoenix Dark on August 08, 2009, 03:21:43 PM
Drug use is disgusting, agreed. That includes alcohol and smoking

the saying you dont know what youre missing has never been truer
Title: Re: Cocaine Contributed To Billy Mays' Death
Post by: Dickie Dee on August 09, 2009, 09:51:21 PM: Quote from: Green Man on August 07, 2009, 06:15:12 PM
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An autopsy shows that cocaine use contributed to the heart disease

But wait, there's more!

Quote
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.
Title: Re: Cocaine Contributed To Billy Mays' Death
Post by: Barry Egan on August 09, 2009, 09:53:02 PM: The slap chop guy must have really shaken Mays up.
Title: Re: Cocaine Contributed To Billy Mays' Death
Post by: Don Flamenco on August 09, 2009, 11:19:36 PM: I wonder if he'll be cremated, dissolved in water, then have his ashes soaked up with a sham-wow.
Title: Re: Cocaine Contributed To Billy Mays' Death
Post by: Barry Egan on August 09, 2009, 11:36:36 PM: See, you're confusing Mays with the slap-chop guy! This is why :'(
Title: Re: Cocaine Contributed To Billy Mays' Death
Post by: drew on August 09, 2009, 11:43:21 PM: Quote from: Kranz Fafka on August 09, 2009, 11:19:36 PM
I wonder if he'll be cremated, dissolved in water, then have his ashes soaked up with a zorbies.

fixed
Title: Re: Cocaine Contributed To Billy Mays' Death
Post by: Himu on August 09, 2009, 11:52:57 PM: :lol
Title: Re: Cocaine Contributed To Billy Mays' Death
Post by: Don Flamenco on August 10, 2009, 12:48:13 AM: Quote from: Chipopo on August 09, 2009, 11:36:36 PM
See, you're confusing Mays with the slap-chop guy! This is why :'(

no, they're like highlanders. he gets absorbed into the sham wow so the sham wow guy gets his power