Police: TV pitchman Billy Mays found dead at home (?!?!)

Yahoo! News ^ | June 28, 2009 | MITCH STACY, Associated Press Writer Mitch Stacy, Associated Press Writer – 5 mins ago

[pillut48]

TAMPA, Fla. – Billy Mays, the burly, bearded television pitchman known for his boisterous hawking of products such as Orange Glo and OxiClean, has died. He was 50.

Tampa police said Mays was found unresponsive by his wife Sunday morning. A fire rescue crew pronounced him dead at 7:45 a.m.

There were no signs of a break-in, and investigators do not suspect foul play. The coroner's office expects to have an autopsy done by Monday afternoon.

"Although Billy lived a public life, we don't anticipate making any public statements over the next couple of days," said Mays' wife, Deborah. "Our family asks that you respect our privacy during these difficult times."

[pillut48]

Yikes! What's going on with all the celebrity deaths in the past few days?!?

[devane617]

did you search? several threads posted already

[pillut48]

[Keith in Iowa]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2281177/posts

[pillut48]

Yes, I did search! Only 2 articles came up, neither about his death!! Weird!! :-O

[devane617]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2281177/posts

[BunnySlippers]

You just woke up?

[GrannyAnn]

I hear the Sham WOW guy is a suspect.

[Vendome]

Yeah and the first one, mine, was locked with no reason given.

[2banana]

Getting by 50 years old is getting tough!

[don-o]

Reason was given

DUPLICATE

[TCats]

Let’s face it, in our 24/7 Media driven Society, the number of ‘Celebrities’ has exploded and is growing exponentially. The ‘In threes’ probably needs an upgrade to ‘In nines’ just to accommodate the Celebrity Inflation of the past 20-30 Years.

[animal172]

Would it be really ugly if I made a list of who I hope goes next?

[TCats]

“Getting by 50 years old is getting tough!”

How else to get out from under the looming Social Security/Medicare meltdown. /sarc

[TomGuy]

There were no signs of a break-in,

That comment showed up in several of these threads regarding his death.

It is a rather strange thing for officials to say, unless there is more to the story than "investigators do not suspect foul play."

[Kirkwood]

“Yeah and the first one, mine, was locked with no reason given.”

There were 4 or 5 before yours.

[Emmett McCarthy]

Well, he’d be the guy with “motive”, right? Cui bono is, I believe, the term used here.

[Vendome]

When it was first locked there was no reason given. I see now that there was a post a few minutes earlier.

Post on!

[ProtectOurFreedom]

First thing a guy at work said after Jackson and Fawcett went was that one more was going to happen. If you don’t count McMahon, he was right.

[stylecouncilor]

ping