Roy from Shipping Wars dead.

[Wanderlai]

Died of a heart attack at 49. Really enjoyed watching him on the show. Would post a link but copy/paste not working for me.

 

 

 

 

[TheAmericanDream]

Love his tell it like it was approach. Will truly be missed.

[Captroop]

I saw this coming a mile away. He reminded me so much of my uncle, who is a chain-smoking, ex-alcoholic, currently a 7-day-a-week, 14 hour a day workaholic. The way they talk, and act, and behave, their work habits, even their lean stringy, hunched over builds; they're the same person. Just very high strung all the time, hyper-stressed and prone to go off at the drop of a hat. Totally invest every fiber of their being into their work at the expense of everything else, and freak out in their personal life when something goes wrong at work, or (heaven forbid) when personal/family responsibilities take them away from work. Frankly, seeing it first hand, it's really not healthy.

 

I hope my uncle calms the fug down for the sake of my cousin, because this won't be far off for him either.

[TheAmericanDream]

I saw this coming a mile away. He reminded me so much of my uncle, who is a chain-smoking, ex-alcoholic, currently a 7-day-a-week, 14 hour a day workaholic. The way they talk, and act, and behave, their work habits, even their lean stringy, hunched over builds; they're the same person. Just very high strung all the time, hyper-stressed and prone to go off at the drop of a hat. Totally invest every fiber of their being into their work at the expense of everything else, and freak out in their personal life when something goes wrong at work, or (heaven forbid) when personal/family responsibilities take them away from work. Frankly, seeing it first hand, it's really not healthy.

I hope my uncle calms the fug down for the sake of my cousin, because this won't be far off for him either.

Sounds like me except the smoking and drinking. I've always been a workaholic. Not to mention the stress of running a business. I always hear to calm down and stress less. Just really hard to do.

[Wanderlai]

Stress will kill you faster than the cigs/alcohol. Combine it all and you're a timebomb.

[Zod]

People always talk about lung cancer with smoking but its the heart attacks that are most common.

[Anybodyhome]

Any "stress" he had as a reality TV star was self-induced. The fact he was 49 yet looked 59 says it all.

 

A chain-smoking, yelling, cursing, unfriendly, anti-social control freak in a customer service-related business... no surprise, I guess.

 

 

[Wanderlai]

Reminds me of Captain Phil Harris from Deadliest Catch. High stress job and smoked like a steam engine. Blood clots did him in. On one episode, it showed him outside the hospital, in the freezing cold, on a heparin drip, just so he could smoke.

[charlotte49er]

I thought it was cool for traveling with his cat "Muffy". 

 

If I was doing that, Braveheart would have to go with me. 

[Rise of The Hive]

RIP