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

[t1b8zs]

Geshhhh......some of dont live here and only read the 1st page maybe once a day if that and dont jump to the next to view the last ump-teen hours soooooooooo poster cop its nice for some(me) to have a post reapear hours from the 1st......

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Does your list have 535 rows?

[SES1066]

Helps if earlier posters use keywords - that is what it is there for.

[plangent]

Not that I’m a Druid, or anything like that, but I think it’s the Summer Solstice.

[DownInFlames]

They die in threes’. The last cluster (Ed McMahn, Farah, and MJ) constituted the first set. Mays is the beginning of the next cluster.

[chicagolady]

I love when he sreamed at me!!

[libh8er]

Epidural hematoma, same thing that killed Natasha Richardson.

[animal172]

Somewhere in that neighborhood give or take....

[Keith in Iowa]

>>>They die in threes’. The last cluster (Ed McMahn, Farah, and MJ) constituted the first set. Mays is the beginning of the next cluster.

He’’s the “if you call in the next 10 minutes, we’ll throw in a bonus one - just pay for the shipping and handling... “

[joejm65]

Damn, I was gonna use that line! :-)

[Vaquero]

They die in threes’. The last cluster (Ed McMahn, Farah, and MJ) constituted the first set. Mays is the beginning of the next cluster.

Watch out Anthony Sullivan, Vince from Shamwow, Chef Tony, and Ron Popeil.

[BlessedBeGod]

Billy Mays Death Threads on FR

[Vaquero]

Just send 19.95 for the little red book......It has the power of communism

[thinking]

Maybe global warming and fear of rising sea levels, could be a factor...

[Gator113]

Cap & trade is killing everyone.

DO NOT look into the eyes of Pelosi, you will turn to stone.

[Paleo Conservative]

http://www.tmz.com/2009/06/28/billy-mays-last-interview/