Man has Heart Attack Eating Triple Bypass Burger at Heart Attack Grill
It was bound to happen sooner or later -- a man suffered a heart attack while eating at the awful burger chain called the "Heart Attack Grill."
The Daily Mail reports the man was eating the "Triple Bypass Burger," of course, at a restaurant in Las Vegas on Saturday when he started having chest pains.
"The gentleman could barely talk. He was sweating, suffering," chain founder John Basson told Fox News.
"I actually felt horrible for him because the tourists were taking photos of him as if it were some type of stunt," he added. "Even with our own morbid sense of humor, we would never pull a stunt like that."
The man's name and condition have not been released.
The Triple Bypass Burger is 6,000 calories of artery-clogging fun, containing three thick burgers, bacon and cheese. By the way, it is recommended that the average man eat 2,500 calories per day.
The chain has come under fire for its unhealthy meals and its policy emblazoned in neon that "Over 350 lbs eats free.
Here is video of paramedics taking the man out of the restaurant:
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Looks like he'll get free burgers for life. I'll bet he wouldn't have gotten that great treatment at a sprouts place. They would probably still be debating if he was skinny enough to warrant a 911 call and taking a poll to decide if having those uniforms in the restaurant might offend anyone.
"Sprouts place"? Your comment shows your contempt for those that care about themselves and others. Are you one of the fat, ill-conditioned cardiac infarction cases waiting to happen?
If freedom means anything, it is the liberty to tell others what they do not want to hear.
While we are making assumptions, the fact that you start this crap about caring for yourself and others could well mean that you are an overbearing, meddling socialist who regards lifestyles different from your own as a matter to be regulated. Freedom also includes the willingness to let others make their own decisions.
BTW, I don't lead a sedentary lifestyle. I actually get exercise by doing something more productive than spin at the gym and wander health food stores. Don't get me wrong, I like to grow and eat my greens as much as the next guy. I just have no objection to having them with a steak.
I'm sorry I cant even read the article with that pic of the waitress there. It's just not possible.
Will this eatery now be aka "Cardiac Arrestaurant"?
Last time I was in Vegas I tackled one of these bad boys... took two of us to kill it, and we STILL wanted to die afterwards. Damn tasty though.
However, the restaurant here is just like any bar. Do you turn away customers, having warned them pretty explicitly, who still want to come in and give you money for a service you provide?
They called the paramedics as soon as something bad happened, to make sure this idiot was okay. They'll still probably get sued for doing the right thing of course.
No one forces you to overeat and not exercise. It's a choice people make in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary.
It's true that there are a small percentage of people with a medical condition that causes obesity. They should be under medical care in any case.
For most, their "glandular condition" is salivary glands and no interest in their health or any self-discipline.
If freedom means anything, it is the liberty to tell others what they do not want to hear.
People get all up in arms over this, but overeating is not the problem of the restaurant; it is the problem of the person that eats there.
The guy should have taken better care of his health before eating there.
I would eat there, if you will excuse the pun, in a heartbeat.
The insanity principle is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results. The far right, the far left, vegans, creationists and other extremists believe in the insanity principle, religiously.
Are you assuming he had a heart attack because he was big and fat? The dude they wheeled out was skinny. some people have heart conditions regardless of how well they take care of their bodies.
You are correct. Thin people can have heart attacks, too. For example, Jim Fixx, famous for advocating running for health died at an early age from a heart attack. Even so, he lived linger than his father and brothers who died even younger from heart attacks.
So Fixx had bad genetics. But he did beat them to a degree and enjoyed a better quality of life than someone who did nothing. Healthy amounts of exercise and sensible eating never shortened anyone's life or made it worse.
If freedom means anything, it is the liberty to tell others what they do not want to hear.