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That’s a Double Bypass from the Heart Attack Grill in Las Vegas, where a woman -- eating a double-patty beef burger mashed between two lard-covered buns -- suffered an apparent heart attack. She was unconscious as she was rushed to the hospital Saturday night; she is expected to recover, KTNV.com reported.
To be fair, the burgers themselves may not be the culprit. The restaurant owner, Jon Basso, noted that the woman was also smoking and drinking a margarita.
"I would say the woman gave her body every single thing it could handle and it finally gave out," Basso told KVVU-TV Fox5.
This is the second time in three months that someone has collapsed while eating a burger at the Heart Attack Grill, where the motto is “Taste worth dying for.” Guests are described as patients in the restaurant’s stated quest against anorexia.
In February, a man in his 40s was eating a Triple Bypass when he began sweating and shaking.
Man stricken while eating Heart Attack Grill burger
"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," Basso told Fox5. He said he heard the man had been hospitalized and getting better.
The restaurant doesn’t try to hide that it serves up fatty fare. A sign there reads, “Caution: This establishment is bad for your health.” Patrons who weigh more than 350 pounds eat free (and yes, there is a scale to catch the skinny minis angling for a free lunch.) The restaurant has explained that yo-yoing weight is unhealthy, so why not keep guests steadily obese?
The burgers range from the Single Bypass to the Quadruple Bypass, which has four half-pound patties and eight slices of American cheese. Add 20 slices of bacon (dripping in its own grease, of course) for $3.69. The quadruple has nearly 8,000 calories.
For good measure, the restaurant parks an ambulance out front.
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If you disrespect your body so much to eat something like that then you deserve to die IMO...
I've nothing negative to say about restaurants that serve this cousine. Myself, once a month, just to spoil myself. True, on a regular business, is suicide. Use you heads people. Counter the affects these foods have on the body and enjoy!!! Viva Pig-Out!!!!
I wonder how many times a week this woman ate there? This could have been her 100th burger in one week!
I like to eat as much as anyone .. yet nothing about this Burger sounds good
I'm thin and I think it sounds delicious.
Wow 8000 calories that is sick.
MEAT IS MURDER!! Tasty, tasty murder. :-)
I'm sure that they have regular burgers for normal people who don't have a morbid appetite, right? We eat what we eat...and we take the chance that it's bad for us. If you leap from the side of a building and die, is it the owners of the building's fault? NO!
Funny thing is MSN did this article because they would like to see the place shut down. What they wind up doing is giving them free advertising. MSN hates to see small businesses succeed. They only applaud success if it's government backed, which never happens.
Why don't you have some "pink slime" with your burger tonight while enjoying opiniontainment shows on dumb FUX NEWS...
I am with you on this Buick 54, I bet people are lined up to get in right now!
Believe me...they're GOOD...and worth the risk!
I dont think MSN posted this because "they want to see the place shut down". More likely they posted it for educational purposes and entertainment value.
newbook...thanks! Great idea! I think I will.
What? Another heart attack victim jogger in a marathon?
Another person dies skiing? drowning in the family pool? car racing?
get the drift?
Eat what you want, Do you want to live forever? Can't wait for the lawsuits to come out, for this, the coca cola lady, stop doing the blame game, your doing it to yourself, If I mispelled any words I'm so sorry, I hope I did not offend you spell freeks or is it geeks, or is it miss can't be wrong. not sure, pick one
newbook
That was NY not Vegas, go watch a new video before you have to go get ready for school tomorrow.
I guess reading or watching facts don't matter when you think your news source is "Fair and Balanced"
it's in Las Vegas kook...
Ohhh, right...those "health nuts" in Vegas would never pull this.
I just figured you were watching ghostbusters before you had to go to bed.
Definitely qualifies as a Finalist in the DARWIN Awards.
You would think that People would be Smart enough to AVOID 8,000 Calories
and 20 strips of Bacon in One Meal. Apparently NOT.
Ha-ha, this woman simply has a death wish. All that was missing was a gun and a little game of Russian roulette...but I guess this is the non-gun equivalent.
Welcome to America and the land of the fatties.
I blame Obama
i blame Calvin Coolidge.
I am so sick of hearing reports of unhealthy people dying at these restaurants. Criminals in jail commit crimes while in jail, runners have heart attacks while jogging, a guy at a baseball game might get hit by a baseball and die. These are not healthy people that took a single bite of their first artery clogging burger and suddenly kicked the bucket. These are really unhealthy people to start with and it just so happens it wasn't McDonald's. To really even the score lets report on all the people at other unhealthy fast food chains that have suffered heart attacks as well and see which restaurant has killed more this last month. This is free advertisement for what i thought was a neat restaurant idea. they even have waitresses scantily dressed to serve you.
it's no different than hooters or half a dozen other idea's.
Blaming them for these people having heart attacks is BS. They could just as easily been eating at MacDonalds or Burger King. Some people are just so gullible. If you haven't had the pleasure of dining at HAG, you should try it - I dare anyone to tell me that it isn't the best hambergers anywhere. Remember, it is just as easy to order a single burger instead of a quad burger. They advertise truthfully so it is up to the individual as to whether or not to eat there or what to eat there. We were there 2 years ago and when we head south next winter we will most definitely go back.
WOW, I like a nice cheeseburger once in a while but this is absolutely ridiculous. The lard burger sounds disgusting, really. Also, way to go in helping people eat their way to their graves with not charging those that weigh over 350 lbs. The food in this place sounds gross and I do like a good meal, but it is almost as bad as burger king saying that they are going to make an ice cream sundae with bacon, YUCK
I can't believe the dept of public health hasn't stepped in and made this place change the menu or shut the place down. This is such a joke hamburgers with cheese the size of mini mountains like this won't hurt you. I think it is time for the attorneys to step in that will change their menu real quick. This is stupid selling heart attacks in the making without any liability I don't think so it is like the makers of DDT selling their products to help the green peace movement. Sorry but this needs to be stopped like 10 years ago and their own spokesman would still be alive. All these burger joints need to step back the 1/4 pounder with cheese is one thing the rest of it well you are selling death to the customer. Hope you lose your ass in the coming lawsuits ! (ROFL at you)
Jim:
A young adult was rushed to the hospital because all she ate ever since she was little was chicken nuggets.
Another woman died after consuming 2 gallons of Coca Cola every day for years.
Guess what? It was their CHOICE. Stupid? Yes. But it was their choice. No one is putting a gun to your head and ordering you to eat there every single day.
Water: The most healthy liquid to consume...and a woman died years ago (Irony: she was a nurse) after consuming a lot of water. Too much of ANYTHING is bad for you.
I'm with Jim. We should outlaw stupid choices. For example, pink or purple cars or size eighteen or over dresses with stripes that run around and around instead of up and down. Rap music. Reality TV. Movies rated above "PG-13". 8,500 square foot McMansions. Motel rooms that rent for under $35/night -- they're too trashy. Hotel rooms that rent for over $299/night -- they're too gaudy, and also represent "conspicous consumption", which Vance Packard was telling us was really, really bad over five decades ago. Teaching extinct languages which no one has spoken for centuries, like Latin, what a waste of time. Also, why shouldn't we outlaw teaching kids arithmethic -- everyone has a calculator now.
Jim, am I not on the right track? If not, show me where. Everyone should have to make good choices -- just like you and me -- or else. Right?
So much BS. That burger didn't do it. An accumulation of stuff did it. Great advertising for the burger place by the way. They are loving that free publicity. Why does everything that tastes good turn out to be bad for you?
If you are going to eat death sandwiches, you need to eat a grease cutter along with it. I like Booze myself. .15 blood alcohol and you can eat all the death burgers you want. But keep drinking all night until it passes in the morning, because the grease could congeal if you dont and boom you have instant solidification of your blood stream. You dont want your blood turning to jello, the pump cant take it.
Plus its a great excuse to keep drinking.
They could add the HIV disco club and suicide bridge next door for more of a tourist draw. Lard on hamburger buns, YUCK.
Ok I weight in the 350 pounds area and that does not sound good to me. I don't even like the double quarter pound from mcd or any of the other big burger from the other fast food chains.
Someone needs to give the owner of that place a medal. At least someone is helping with population control. Good way to let only the strong and educated decide. Most of the women on that interview reminded me of the trailer park on My Name is Earl...
personal responsibility needs to be done here, if you know you are over weight and that you are unhealthy eating a burger like this you deserve what you get. I have heart disease with 7 stents and type 2 diabetes as well as liver disease, I don't drink, smoke or eat food that I know will hurt me. The dinner has a disclaimer on its door and if you enter knowing that its not right you get what you deserve.
What great advertising. I can't wait to try the place the next time I'm in Vegas. Hell, I might just go to
Vegas for the burger instead of sportsbook, alcohol, hookers, gambling, fireworks. Apparently your corpse stays in Vegas too.