Tippy Tom Died

Keith the Cop, who was responsible for finding many of the bums for the 2001 Homeless Shopping Spree, came across a rare find – a 45 year-old guy named Tippy Tom, who had been on the streets of New York for over 2 decades. Tom is gay and has AIDS.tippy-tom-died

Once during an appearance on the XM Radio show he fell asleep and could not be woken up; Master Po poured water in his ear and ended up reviving him.

Allegedly before his homelessness, Tippy Tom was a health conscious person and a successful businessman (he had a window washing business), and even had a wife and kid. He also had a gambling problem, which may have led to his being on the streets. At one time, Tom was cleaned up and called into the show sober (and sounded really gay), but his sobriety didn’t take.

Nowadays, Tom still roams the streets with his legs all black; it’s possible he may lose them. Tom’s brother had also been trying to get in touch with him to tell him that his mother had died. Opie revealed the news of her death to him at the end of the April 10, 2008 show, by passing a note to him to read. O&A also had fun with Tom when they found out he gets sad at the movie Sophie’s Choice, and played the clip where Sophie has to choose which of her children must die, to which Tom got very emotional.

Tippy Tom’s shitty underpants were also used by Pat Duffy to make an underpants mustache, similar to Opie’s Baby Diaper Mustache Day.

It was reported on June 26, 2009 that Tippy Tom died May 6. RIP.

Michael Jackson death still unsolved after autopsy

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Doctors completed an autopsy on the body of Michael Jackson on Friday but said they could not immediately establish a cause of death for the "King of Pop" as speculation centered on his use of prescription painkillers.

"The cause of death has been deferred, which means that the medical examiner has ordered additional testing such as toxicology and other studies," Los Angeles County Coroner's spokesman Craig Harvey said.

"Those tests we anticipate will take an additional four to six weeks."

Speaking to a throng of reporters outside the coroner's office, Harvey said, "There was no indication of any external trauma or indication of foul play to the body of Mr. Jackson."

He said his office expected to determine what killed Jackson, 50, when the tests were complete.

The body would be released to family members after they chose a mortuary to handle the funeral arrangements, Harvey added.

Celebrity website TMZ.com, citing an interview with an unidentified "close member" of the Jackson family, reported the superstar singer was injected with Demerol about half an hour before he went into cardiac arrest.

'HE'S NOT RESPONDING'

Police searched Jackson's rented mansion in the Holmby Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles and planned to interview his personal physician, who was with the entertainer at the time of his death.

TMZ, citing family members, said Jackson received a daily injection of Demerol, a narcotic painkiller. The family believes his death was caused by an overdose of the drug, TMZ reported.

An unidentified man called a 911 emergency phone line from the mansion at 12:21 p.m. local time, saying Jackson was unconscious and not breathing.

In excerpts from the call played on television, the man said the doctor was the only other person present and was performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation on the unconscious Jackson without results.

"He's pumping, he's pumping his chest but he's not responding to anything, sir, please," the caller said.

A senior law enforcement official told ABC News that Jackson was "heavily addicted" to the painkiller Oxycontin and was injected daily with that medication, along with Demerol.

Lawyer Brian Oxman, a Jackson family spokesman, told CBS' "The Early Show" he had been concerned about the prescription drugs Jackson took due to injuries suffered while performing.

D-Day 65th Anniversary

D-Day 65th anniversary for 2009 celebrations is held at Omaha Beach, France. President Barack Obama paid tribute Saturday to the war veterans of D-Day 65th anniversary.
D-Day 65th anniversary of this astonishing feat and the last of the official celebrations. Prepped for the assault were 160,000 allied troops, 195,000 allied navy personnel and 5,000 allied ships covering 50 miles of French coastline.

Obama visited an American battlefield museum with his wife, Michelle,to honor fallen greeted U.S. military members and mingled with uniformed World War II veterans in conjunction of D-Day 65th anniversary.

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