Posted on 08/07/2009 1:54:16 PM PDT by raccoonradio
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.
I’m just wondering how he managed to keep the powder from being embedded in that moustache.
yup you may be right but the comment about “what if you’re an...” is def. Cosby
Coke certainly explains his energy level during tapings.
Do you think the airlines planted the cocaine inside Billy Mays’ body? How diabolical!
Freebasing?
Cocaine and heart failure don’t mix very well.
>> I didn’t have Billy Mays pegged as a cokehead. <<
There were signs of it if you watched the show pitchmen, once he was in his room obviously hung over.
I hate to say it, but that was my first reaction, too.
No. But if it becomes an insurance situation, the airlines can say he was wired at the time.
Interesting..that explains a LOT.
If he was a coke head, you’d a thought he might of quit for the surgury.
Maybe Billy messed up and accidentally snorted Oxy-Clean.
WHAT is with these folks and the white powder? Bobby Hatfield (The Righteous Bros.), John Entwistle, Len Bias (Boston Celtics draftee, ‘86)... the list is endless. Amazing how people can be such dumb-as@es.
Pretty sad - and this is the drug all the liberals want to see legalized.
Sad. just shows the depth and breadth that drugs travel these days. maybe that suitcase that conked him earlier form an overhead bin was stuffed with happy powder, an omen, perhaps?
I figured he was hooked on Oxyclean not oxycodone and nose candy
Just the Devils temptation.
Should of stuck with the Maui Waui.
And the lead singer of Quiet Riot. If you still do coke after your 40s, you’re asking for it.
Sad...but he apparently kept it under wraps well, at least in the sense that he showed up for work and did his job and never got arrested for it. Though I guess it’s obvious in retrospect *something* was hypercharging him.
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