Police: TV pitchman Billy Mays found dead at home

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Inexplicably, Harry Morgan (aka "Col. Potter") is still alive .. for now.
 
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bbgun;2825477 said:
Inexplicably, Harry Morgan (aka "Col. Potter") is still alive .. for now.
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That is hard to believe. He is 94.

I never liked the guy ... not in Dragnet, MASH, or anything else. Then he was charged with beating his wife a few years ago (he was in his 80s).
 
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Wonder if he purchased any of that life insurance I saw him selling not too long ago.
 

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WarC;2825567 said:
roaches and Ted Kennedy could survive nuclear holocaust
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He's such a courageous man. I never will forget when I heard about him driving drunk into a lake and leaving the hooker in his car to drown.
 
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Jon88;2825569 said:
He's such a courageous man. I never will forget when I heard about him driving drunk into a lake and leaving the hooker in his car to drown.
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This was probably the same thing that happened to the celeb (Natasha something) who slipped and hit her head on a skiing trip in Canada. He was probably bleeding into his brain and didn't know it.
 
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hairic;2825767 said:
This was probably the same thing that happened to the celeb (Natasha something) who slipped and hit her head on a skiing trip in Canada. He was probably bleeding into his brain and didn't know it.
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this very well could be true.
 
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TAMPA, Florida (CNN) -- TV pitchman Billy Mays' death appeared to be from heart disease, not a bump to the head, according to the Hillsborough County medical examiner.
OxiClean pitchman Billy Mays died Sunday morning at his home in Tampa, authorities said.

OxiClean pitchman Billy Mays died Sunday morning at his home in Tampa, authorities said.

The final cause of death will not be known until after toxicology results are available, Dr. Vernard Adams said at a Monday news conference.

Mays, 50, was pronounced dead at his home near Tampa Sunday morning, after his wife Deborah found him unresponsive, Tampa police said.

The autopsy conducted Monday morning revealed Mays suffered from hypertensive heart disease, Adams said.

"It's not uncommon to have a sudden death with this kind of disease," Adams said.

"Billy would be overwhelmed to see that his life touched so many people in a positive way," Deborah Mays said in a statement Monday.

"While it provides some closure to learn that heart disease took Billy from us, it certainly doesn't ease the enormous void that his death has created in our lives," she said.

Billy Mays had told a friend before he went to sleep Saturday he was not feeling well.

"He said he was groggy, he wasn't feeling that great. He wanted to get some sleep," Todd Schnitt said. Video Watch friends remember Billy Mays »

Mays was on a US Airways flight from Philadelphia that had a hard landing Saturday at Tampa International Airport after the front tire of the plane blew out.
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After the flight, Mays told a Tampa TV station, "All of a sudden as we hit, you know, it was just the hardest hit, all the things from the ceiling started dropping. It hit me on the head, but I got a hard head." Video Watch Mays talk about hard landing »

Mays, with his booming voice, was famous for fronting products such as OxiClean and Orange Glo in TV commercials.
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No evidence of exterior or interior head trauma was found during Mays' autopsy, Adams said.

The Discovery Channel -- which airs "Pitchmen" co-hosted by Mays -- issued a statement saying, "It is with incredible sadness that we have to report that Billy Mays died in his sleep last night. Everyone that knows him was aware of his larger-than-life personality, generosity and warmth. Billy was a pioneer in his field and helped many people fulfill their dreams. He will be greatly missed as a loyal and compassionate friend."
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bbgun;2826368 said:
Fess up: have any of you ever bought these products, and if so, do they work as advertised?
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Oxiclean is greatness. I've never tried Orange Glo.

I also tried another product that he pitched for, What Odor?, and that works as advertised as well.
 
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i've bought the generic/regular ones from Home Depot (sealant or whatever). Never bought his stuff though
 
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