Patron Has Heart Attack at Restaurant Named ‘Heart Attack Grill’
- Posted on February 15, 2012 at 1:12pm by
Jonathon M. Seidl
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Heart Attack Grill. There might not be a more appropriately named restaurant in the country. Consider: a man dining at the Las Vegas restaurant on Saturday suddenly started sweating and getting the shakes while downing the 6,000-calorie Triple Bypass Burger. He was having a heart attack.
That might not be surprising considering the Triple Bypass Burger (pictured below) consists of three patties of meat, 12 strips of bacon, cheese, onion, tomato and special sauce:
“He was having the sweats and shaking,“ a worker named ”Nurse” Bridgett told KVVU-TV. (The restaurant takes on a medical theme.)
“Doctor” Jon Basso, the restaurant’s owner, thought it was a joke at first.
“One of the nurses came back to me and said, ‘Dr. Jon, we‘ve got a patient who’s in trouble.’”
But it was no joke. KVVU explains:
The 40-something-year-old man, who is yet to be identified, is apparently alive and recuperating at the hospital. But Basso said he feels bad considering how some reacted that night.
“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 KVVU.
Amateur video captured the man being wheeled out by paramedics:
This isn’t the first time the restaurant has been connected to a health incident. Last spring, the spokesman for the restaurant’s Arizona branch died at the age of 29. He weighed 572 pounds at the time.
(H/T: Buzzfeed)
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Comments (98)
piper60
Posted on February 15, 2012 at 2:13pmThis’ll give Michelle ammo.
Report Post »JAMACAMECRAZYMAN
Posted on February 15, 2012 at 2:25pmAre you kidding – she frequents the place……….
Report Post »chips1
Posted on February 15, 2012 at 4:10pmI’ll chip in to buy her another one. Obama wants us to spread the wealth. Money well spent!!!
Report Post »MYHEROISRON
Posted on February 15, 2012 at 4:59pmyeah, I just look at that thing and my heart skips a beat, then another, then another …
Report Post »flyoverbob
Posted on February 15, 2012 at 5:03pmI want one I want one,actually two .Hurry before Moochelle gets them all
Report Post »Bill Rowland
Posted on February 15, 2012 at 5:14pmShe has them flown into DC from Nellis AFB twice a week. The AF calls it the Colesterol Express and it uses on of ther exec jets that weren’t good enough for Fancy Nancy.
OMG
Report Post »Gorp
Posted on February 15, 2012 at 5:16pmThey couldn’t ask for better free advertising.
“Come to The Heart Attack Grill. We Mean What We Say!”
Report Post »Mil-Dot
Posted on February 15, 2012 at 5:22pmHer butt needs a triple-bypass.
Report Post »disenlightened
Posted on February 15, 2012 at 6:12pmLooks like the guy needs a good attorney now. Maybe Rick Santorum can give him the phone number to the ambulance chaser he and his wife used to sue her chiropractor for $500,000.
Report Post »PureDrumFury
Posted on February 15, 2012 at 2:13pmI would eat that burger right now instead of the pizza I’m having, if it were possible.
Report Post »banjarmon
Posted on February 15, 2012 at 2:11pmIf you are going to die….DIE DOING WHAT YOU ENJOY…Not shoveling SNOW!!!
Report Post »progressiveslayer
Posted on February 15, 2012 at 2:11pmFree market at work here folks,he knew or should have known eating unhealthy can lead to a heart attack and he has free will and he made the choice to eat what he wants.Now Mooochele can ban all fast food joints while simultaneously eating ribs.
Report Post »sizzler2220
Posted on February 15, 2012 at 2:09pmThe liberal food police will now demand the closure of these restaurants. Wonder if Reid payed the guy to fake it?
Report Post »ZeroOff4impact
Posted on February 15, 2012 at 2:09pmWhat if it happened at The Olive Garden ?
Report Post »wasalibonce
Posted on February 15, 2012 at 2:56pmthey would blame it on the Tea Party…
Report Post »pjmarshake
Posted on February 15, 2012 at 3:04pmIt would be blamed on unclean food and then used to crack down on local farms
Report Post »Conkuur
Posted on February 15, 2012 at 2:06pmHE made a choice HE suffered the consequences of it, the world is as it should be.
Report Post »progressiveslayer
Posted on February 15, 2012 at 2:22pmThat attitude won’t sit well with the food police or our Marxist POS president no sir,the government cares so much for us LMAO they tell us what to eat what to drive and they even sexually assault us when we want to fly,all of those unconstitutional searches and such.Damn those burgers look good but heart disease runs in the family so veggies for me.
Report Post »ModerationIsBest
Posted on February 15, 2012 at 3:00pmYup, just don’t complain when your health insurance premiums go up because moronic people are continually eating horribly unhealthy food despite the obvious ramifications.
Report Post »The Jewish Avenger
Posted on February 15, 2012 at 1:57pmI am so eating there….
One burger could feed my family!
Endless fries?
Moobummas food police! Pfffft please…
Report Post »SmallGovBigGuns
Posted on February 15, 2012 at 1:57pmisn’t there a resturant that only serves fatty fried foods that gives free food to people that weight is over 400lbs? or is that an urban myth that has pushed me the 399lbs as of today? haha
Report Post »All American American
Posted on February 15, 2012 at 3:16pmIts this place and I think the cut-off is 300+ and its free.
Anyway I have no sympathy for people who destroy their bodies through excess booze, drugs, food, whatever. A 6000 calorie burger? Good Lord. I guess I’d call this “thinning the herd.”
Report Post »GhostOfJefferson
Posted on February 15, 2012 at 1:56pmWhen you put out bait for extremely unhealthy and obese people, don’t be surprised when extremely unhealthy and obese people show up and then sometimes do what extremely unhealthy and obese people do in public, which is have heart attacks or die.
I’m not dissing the restaurant, just saying that this doesn’t seem like news so much as “oh, right, and this is surprising how” to me.
Report Post »Halloween
Posted on February 15, 2012 at 6:20pmBelieve it or not, this restaurant is a chain and it is gaining popularity.
Report Post »MittensKittens
Posted on February 15, 2012 at 1:56pmI bet he’s been eating there for years…
Report Post »tharpdevenport
Posted on February 15, 2012 at 1:52pmDidn’t the owner of it also have a heart attack and die?
Report Post »I.Gaspar
Posted on February 15, 2012 at 1:49pmThey should probably offer him food for life…won’t be that long if he eats there regularly.
Report Post »therover2
Posted on February 15, 2012 at 1:49pmawhh lifes simple pleasures…like watching fat smokers hurrying to die.
Report Post »THX-1138
Posted on February 15, 2012 at 1:40pmThere is no such thing as “bad” publicity.
Report Post »csm-101
Posted on February 15, 2012 at 1:39pmI ate at the Heart Attack Grill in Chandler Az. It was Fun, the burgers are pretty good (could only eat a double bypass) and so are the fries. the Girls are hot, wearing sexy nurse outfits, and they also have a ambulance parked out side. (for looks only)
Report Post »On The Bayou
Posted on February 15, 2012 at 1:33pmGood chance he wasn`t in the bath tub.
Report Post »KAdams
Posted on February 15, 2012 at 1:32pmIt was the bun. Too much bread. http://www.wheatbellyblog.com/
Report Post »Baddoggy
Posted on February 15, 2012 at 1:34pmYou are correct sir!
Report Post »AB5r
Posted on February 15, 2012 at 1:47pmI was thinking it must have been the special sauce.
Report Post »USPATRIOT101
Posted on February 15, 2012 at 1:29pmThat burger looks awesome!!
Report Post »ADNIL
Posted on February 15, 2012 at 1:27pmI wonder if their help is CPR certified and do they have defillibrators on site.
Report Post »Baddoggy
Posted on February 15, 2012 at 1:22pmMost people are ignorant odf what causes heart attacks in the first [place. It is the build ip of Cho;estero; yes…But the cholesteral is there because of the sugar that has torn holes in the artery linings and it is doing the nessasary repair work so you donr bleed to death internally. That buger would not cause a heart attack, except for the BUN!
Carbohydrates cause heart attacks not a high healthy fat diet…It’s the adding in of carbs that doeas all the damage and eventually kills you. Go ahead and eat that Government pyramid diet if you want to die early!
Paleo is the way to go! Fatty ribeyes, no carbs except for salads, all the eggs and bacon you want and you will live a long time. The nutritionalist in Ameica have lied to you! Wake up Sheeple!
Report Post »steelreserve
Posted on February 15, 2012 at 4:13pmThe key word is moderation. Chemicals are added to meat just as much as wheat.
Report Post »KickinBack
Posted on February 15, 2012 at 4:58pmLMAO! It’s a conspiracy!
Report Post »Halloween
Posted on February 15, 2012 at 6:17pmNice try BADDOGGY, you have as much medical knowledge as the blond “nurse” and the “doctor” that work there.
Report Post »TexBork
Posted on February 15, 2012 at 1:22pmWow! He survived the challenge. It’s like Man VS Food. Obama will probably ban the show now. Still had he died eating the burger, he would have gone out doing something he enjoyed, eating a big burger, and not in some senseless tragedy, like well, something that made no sense…
Report Post »Stoic one
Posted on February 15, 2012 at 1:21pmHope the guy is ok
the flotus will no doubt arrive in a day or two to have dinner ( at taxpayer expense) and then have the fda shut it down for federal health code violations.
Report Post »SamIamTwo
Posted on February 15, 2012 at 1:21pmI bet that Team O is chomping at the bit to do some more hope and change.
Report Post »Rickfromillinois
Posted on February 15, 2012 at 1:16pmWell is shouldn’t have come as a surprise to him. Talk about truth in advertising.
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