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Billy Mays Dead @ 51 . . .

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The last injestion was three days prior to the heart failure. Cocaine is out of your system in three days.
I'm not usually into the whole 3-way thing, but you got me a little excited with that. - Skymama
BTR #1 / OTB^5 Official #2 / Hellfish #408 / VSCR #108/Tortuga/Orfun

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who is Billy May ?



He's an infomercial pitchman. Think Oxi-Clean...
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Last year I had a malfunction which damaged my bright yellow main & sent it away for repair. During this time I saw Mays hawking something called Mighty Mend-It. He was seated at the rear bulkhead next to the door of a Caravan as a "professional" skydiver exited wearing a rig that had been torn and repaired with this product. ("Allowed to dry overnight".)

Mays was wearing a rig, but his clothes had been modified to allow the chest strap to pass underneath his shirt. You had to pause the video to notice the rig. Of course, the (bright yellow) main opened flawlessly and saved the endangered skydiver who trusted his life to this gee-whizz product.

Melodrama aside, of course he could have used his reserve if the main failed for any reason. The funny thing about this was that it appeared to be a Star-Trac. It would have worked just fine if the rip (about eight inches long on a side panel) had not been repaired at all.

Funny aside: My canopy had endured a four-foot long tear along the top of the second cell. My wife offered to sew it for me, but I explained that her many years of experience sewing clothes was irrelevant and that this would require the services of an experienced rigger. Instead of saying "Oh, okay..." she insisted that she could do the repair even though she had zero training in parachute construction. According to this logic I can fly a King Air because I know something about aviation and have flown in airplanes hundreds of times. Sigh.

(Then again, after that tandem accident four years ago in which a crippled student slipped from the harness she claimed that the TM probably did it on purpose. Later, after we learned the facts of the incident, and learned who the TM was, she still insisted that this was more than just a freak accident and that I was denying reality by refusing to consider that this might be murder. It's in times like these where I can fantasize about being married to Ann Coulter; Not that I'm attracted to very thin women, but at least when it comes time for us to argue about something she can stay on topic and not be dominated by her irrational emotions.)

Anyway, cheers!
Jon S.

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Yes, but did you read all the other stuff he was taking. He was giving Dr. House a run for his stash.



OK, let's review:

Cocaine
ethyl alcohol
hydrocodone
oxycodone
alprazolam (Xanax)
diazepam (Valium)

Somehow, despite being about the same age, I now feel a bit less like a naturally-marked man.

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