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[MilesWebber]

Not posting a link since it's from gawker

Man Suffers Heart Attack While Eating ‘Triple Bypass Burger’ at Heart Attack Grill
An unidentified man suffered cardiac arrest a heart attack while eating a meal called a "Triple Bypass Burger" at the Heart Attack Grill in Las Vegas on Saturday.

Who saw this coming from a fast food franchise with a "Taste Worth Dying For!" slogan and an entrance sign that reads "If you come in this place, it's going to kill you?" Certainly no one.

The customer, estimated to be in his 40s, was wheeled out by paramedics when he was just midway through his 6,000 calorie burger. The chain owner, a former nutritionist named Jon Basso, said that the man "could barely talk" and was "sweating and suffering" as tourists took photos and videos from the street:

The staff at the Heart Attack Grill willingly glorifies bad health. If you weigh over 350 pounds, you eat for free. And on Saturday night, Basso saw the other side.

"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 said.

The restaurant, like so many other beloved American fast food chains, is famous for selling food that will eventually kill you. It's not supposed to happen mid-bite.

"I don't think I would walk into a place, even if it's called the Heart Attack Grill, and order food," a disturbed Las Vegas resident told Fox 5, "and expect that I was going to have a heart attack."

Certainly not. We're at least entitled to keeling over in the privacy of our own homes. Is nothing sacred anymore?

Well, Gaf? Challenge still accepted?

 

[the chris]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=463287&highlight=heart

 

[MilesWebber]

Damn I got scooped!

 

[SmokyDave]

Damn I got scooped!

On the plus side, you reminded me to image-search the waitresses at this place again.

Cheers for that.

 

[sixteen-bit]

Truth in advertising.

 

[kehs]

Not posting a link since it's from gawker

Then why bother posting the article?

 

[MilesWebber]

Then why bother posting the article?

really?

 

[MThanded]

Not posting a link since it's from gawker

where dey do dat at?

 

[WillyFive]

Not familiar with Gawker, why can't you post links from them?

 

[notworksafe]

Old and no link. Double the fail indeed.

 

[kehs]

really?

Really.

 

[Host Samurai]

On the plus side, you reminded me to image-search the waitresses at this place again.

Cheers for that.

Burgers and hot chicks? So this is what heaven looks like.....

 

[BladeoftheImmortal]

You know, I still want to eat that burger.

 

[e_i]

I can guarantee none of those girls eat that food.

 

[Sub_Level]

Heart attacks can be instantaneous at times so it's not surprising he just got it right there in the middle of a burger. One minute you're eating a juicy burger, and the next you're experiencing great chest pain and shortness of breath. McDouble Trouble if you will.

 

[speedpop]

6,000 calories!?

The man was only in his 40s!?

No words.

 

[agrajag]

Heart attacks can be instantaneous at times so it's not surprising he just got it right there in the middle of a burger. One minute you're eating a juicy burger, and the next you're experiencing great chest pain and shortness of breath. McDouble Trouble if you will.

I doubt the heart attack was caused by the burger. The guy probably had terrible health (which is not surprising if he's a patron of places where they serve 6000 calorie burgers), and was due for a heart attack. The burger was just the nail in the coffin so to speak.

 

[shinobi602]

One minute you're chomping on a burger, the next minute you're dead meat.

 

[Maleficence]

I doubt the heart attack was caused by the burger. The guy probably had terrible health (which is not surprising if he's a patron of places where they serve 6000 calorie burgers), and was due for a heart attack. The burger was just the nail in the coffin so to speak.

Nah, no matter what he would have eaten that day he would have had that heart attack most likely. Even if he ate a huge salad.

The food you're eating during a heart attack can never be the cause, but the act of eating might.

 

[sixteen-bit]

You know, I still want to eat that burger.

I wouldn't mind eating that burger in small increments over several days.

 

[Anticitizen One]

shit and I get concerned about my health every time I eat at Five Guys.

 

[Darklord]

On the plus side, you reminded me to image-search the waitresses at this place again.

Cheers for that.

Super hot but I can only imagine how repulsed they be by every single patron.

 

[jbueno]

Old and he didn´t exactly get what he ordered, a triple bypass could have saved his life lol.

You know, I still want to eat that burger.

I haven´t tried them myself, but I hear those burgers aren´t really anything special and certainly not worth the calories. But at 6000 calories, what is?