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Subscribe to RSSMenu warnings nearly proved true for a man at a downtown Las Vegas restaurant that offers "Bypass" burgers, "Flatliner" fries and free meals to people over 350 pounds.
Amateur video shows a man being wheeled out of the Heart Attack Grill on a stretcher after a medical episode that restaurant employees said looked like, well, a heart attack.
Eatery owner Jon Basso told KVVU-TV FOX5 he thought it was a joke when a waitress told him a customer eating a Triple Bypass burger was sweating and shaking.
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"The gentleman could barely talk," Basso told FoX5. "He was sweating, suffering. Anyone with an ounce of compassion would've felt for him."
A Las Vegas fire spokesman told The Associated Press that paramedics were summoned Saturday evening and a man was indeed hospitalized.
Basso said he heard the man is recuperating. His name and the medical condition he suffered weren't released.
Even though the restaurant glorifies bad eating with the eat-free promotion for heavy customers, Basso told FOX5 he felt bad about the incident.
"I actually felt horrible for the gentleman because the tourists were taking photos of him as if it were some type of stunt. Even with our own morbid sense of humor, we would never pull a stunt like that," he told FOX5.
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Finally, a place out west that has good food.
Refreshing to see some real truth in advertising these days . . .
Our food on the west side is way better than whatever slop you're eating! ;P
They have come up with some new slogans. Our burgers are " KILLER ". Have it your way "on the gurney". Will you have nitro on the side ? Beef and Cheddar are better, at " blocking the trach tube ." When you're here we'll have to treat you and your family." And lastly, kids eat free, " and alone " on Fridays.
Damn nice when you get what you pay for. I had a heart attack burger down in Texas and boy was it good!
It was nothing new for the customer, that is his version of an orgasm!
Not a publicity stunt? Really?
This restaurant's apparently successful theme and its patrons prove again that there's no shortage of stupidity in America.
HA HA HA. Fat people are gross
Dumb people, like yourself, are annoying!
Did I strike a nerve with the morbidly obese Toya?
If you want get healthy and then stay healthy, eat organic fruits and vegetables. Do your best to avoid any type of food that may have pesticides.
According to two major MD's that have performed thousands of by-pass heart surgeries over their careers, they took it upon themselves to inform the public on how to stay off their operating table.
Eat no animals - and no dairy.
Watch the documentary "Forks over knives" hear it from the MDs themselves.
I've heard multiple heart surgeons during interviews say that most of them would be out of business if people just ate properly and exercised.
yet you have people that eat meat and even bacon nearly every day and live into their ninetys
but nearly all of them exercise some way or another, many simply working hard with physical work.
exercise and eating a balanced diet and not to excess will do just fine for a long and healthy life
and face it, some people genuinely Can't survive on a vegan dietregardless of what the religious hype claims
Organic doesn't even mean anything. You can spend double the price on the organics if you want but I'm sure not going to.
Taking pics of him, good ads for warning on what not to do. Does the retuarant not expect pics when someone is doing this type of eating as advertised??? Hope this guy does recover and get some common sense nutrional information. One can only hope...................
People are stricten with polio, malaria, scurrvy. This guy ate his a$$ to near death.
Just remember, all you who are haranguing the restaurant owner, that it's the CUSTOMER who CHOSE to eat the burger. Yes, the restaurant didn't have to serve it to him, but it's what the customer ordered. Neither you nor I nor anyone else has any right to tell the next person that they CANNOT have whatever it is they want to eat. A doctor can warn and plead and try to coerce their patients into eating better, but in the end, it's always the choice of the individual. (I'm not talking parents and their children here, so don't even bring that up.)
No surprise, people are dropping dead due to obesity and disgusting eating habits everyday.
Glad he's still alive. Talk about a wake-up call. I have the feeling he won't be patronizing that restaurant in the near future.
The owner says he has a "morbid sense of humor". I just wish there was a way to have all the hospital expenses of this crapeater of a man who almost died billed to him and force this restaurant owner to cough up the thousands it'll undoubtedly end up costing the rest of us through higher insurance rates!
If all these restaurants [and food processors as well] who "just don't get it" were forced to pay a surcharge on their fat producing, killer foods maybe we could drive them out of business and get food manufacturers whose goal is to serve healthy foods, foods that reduce the cost of hospitalization in the United States!!
I believe that healthy foods [without the use of chemical flavor or color enhancers} can be made to taste delicious. But, it's going to take companies that make good health their number one requirement!! for everything they sell!
rb. did you know that after "supersize me" was made, another guy went to McDonalds, ate nothing but items from their menu and every item on their menu was eaten for a month, and actually lost a couple pounds and was ten points lower in cholesterol?
the difference? the guy exercised 1 1/2 hours a day .
its the lack of exercise and not paying attention to what we eat that is the problem
RB, it's YOU who doesn't "get" it. The restaurants aren't responsible for their customers' choices; the customers are their own worst enemies. How would you like it if the government came to you and said, "You're selling too many cell phones to teens; they keep texting while driving and it's up to you to make sure they don't do it anymore." It's the same idea: you are no more responsible for what the teens do with their phones while driving than a restaurant owner is over what their customers order. If the restaurant makes greasy, fat-filled food - and someone eats it - it's the choice of that "someone", not the restaurant.
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