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Colin Kroll, Founder of HQ Trivia and Vine, Died of Accidental Drug Overdose (nbcnewyork.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the rest-in-peace dept.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from NBC New York: Colin Kroll, the co-founder of HQ Trivia and Vine, died of an accidental overdose, the city's medical examiner announced Tuesday. According to the autopsy results, Kroll died of "acute intoxication due to the combined effects of fentanyl, fluoroisobutyryl fentanyl, heroin, and cocaine." Kroll, 34, was found dead in his SoHo, Manhattan, apartment on Dec. 16, 2018. Police responded to a 911 call for a welfare check at the Spring Street apartment where they found Kroll unconscious and unresponsive in a bedroom of the apartment, a New York Police Department spokesman previously told NBC News. Kroll was named the chief executive of HQ Trivia, a phone-based trivia platform, in September. Prior to that, Kroll co-founded Vine, the popular short-form video service acquired in 2012 by Twitter. Vine was discontinued four years later.

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  1. Don't do heroin, kids by Fwipp · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Out of all the drugs out there, stay away from heroin.

    1. Re:Don't do heroin, kids by sexconker · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Odds are it was the fentanyl that got him.

    2. Re:Don't do heroin, kids by alvinrod · · Score: 5, Informative

      If he had cocaine in his system he was likely taking it with the opioids, which is a pretty deadly combo. Of course fentanyl is deadly itself. This article has an image showing what a lethal dose looks like so it's easy to see why you can so easily end your life accidentally.

  2. Fentanyl by HangingChad · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Because heroin and cocaine don't fuck you up enough?

    --
    That's our life, the big wheel of shit. - The Fat Man, Blue Tango Salvage
  3. Re:He choose to do drugs by Comrade+Ogilvy · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It is more like someone who is known to love to drive his sports cars 110mph deserved to die in a car accident.

    I have driven 100mph for a few moments in my life. But I sure would not make a habit of it, even if I owned an appropriate vehicle, because I do not want a minor mistake by myself or someone else to snowball into a stupid death.

    Did this guy deserve to die? I would say no. But he lived a life where a minor mistake by himself or someone else could snowball into a stupid death. He rolled the dice, and it came up snake eyes.