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    Man suffers heart attack while eating at Heart Attack Grill (Video)

    Millions of Americans watch what they eat. But one Las Vegas man has painfully discovered that where you eat can have a big impact on your health as well. In a story almost too bizarre to be true, a man suffered a heart attack after eating a "triple bypass burger" at the Heart Attack Grill in downtown Las Vegas, local affiliate Fox5 reports.

    As comically tragic as that may sound, no one can sue the restaurant for not issuing fair warning. Its website proudly proclaims the menu offers, "Taste Worth Dying For!" (Fortunately, the man in question survived his attack.)

    Still, it was the first actual known cardiac incident at the Heart Attack Grill. "He was having the sweats and shaking," "Nurse" Bridgett, who was working at the restaurant at the time of the incident, told Fox5. (Employees at the restaurant are given fake medical titles, including the establishment's owner, "Doctor" Jon Basso.)

    "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," Bosso told Fox5. "He was sweating, suffering. Anyone with an ounce of compassion would've felt for him."

    Basso said the man's name is being kept private but that he is recovering from the heart attack.

    Of course, you can't blame patrons for being caught up in the overwhelming sense of irony. Not only is the restaurant named the Heart Attack Grill, but its sign tells prospective diners that anyone "over 350 pounds eats free." There's even a tongue-in-cheek warning sign at the restaurant's door stating that the offered dining fare is a health risk.

    Some of the menu items available for diners at the Heart Attack Grill include: The butterfat milkshake, non-filtered cigarettes, "flatliner" fries and four different burgers, each rated on an ascending scale of one bypass to the quadruple bypass burger.

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    • cgirl  •  Monitor Twp, Michigan  •  1 mth 0 days ago
      People shouldn't take pleasure or fun into seeing some one in a heart attack.
      • M 1 mth 0 days ago
        When it's self-induced it's the irony that is funny. People forking with fate and it bites them back hard, that is funny.
    • Nathaniel  •  1 mth 0 days ago
      The writer of this article should look at the definition of irony. It would be ironic if all the customers of the Heart Attack Grill lived exceptionally long, healthy lives.
    • Mark  •  Newark, New Jersey  •  1 mth 0 days ago
      We've all heard countless times that "...you are what you eat." Guess we can now add you eat what you are! Just proves that stupidity loves company - beefy boobheads eat like it's their last meal, and sometimes it is!
    • DON  •  Flint, Michigan  •  1 mth 0 days ago
      it wasn't the actual burger that almost took the guy out, it was the "arsenic salt" and the "hemlock pepper".
    • DON  •  Flint, Michigan  •  1 mth 0 days ago
      i'm in the mood for a "sex change taco".
    • DON  •  Flint, Michigan  •  1 mth 0 days ago
      he didn't have the heart attack until he got the bill.
    • Michael  •  1 mth 1 day ago
      How embarrassing to have a heart attack at the "Heart Attack Grill". You walk in thinking 'oh, what a fun name, but nothing will happen; lol, how many people really get heart attacks these days.' Then you leave in a body bag. HILARIOUS.
    • M  •  1 mth 0 days ago
      VVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv---------------------------------------------------
    • M  •  1 mth 0 days ago
      "In a story almost too bizarre to be true, "

      - how so? you eat crap that is what happens it all makes perfect sense it's not bizarre at all. People think they can crash into the wall and survive, hey guess what, you may not.
    • no lie  •  Northbrook, Illinois  •  1 mth 0 days ago
      the name says it all...so would you go in a place that says..."gonorrea gyros"????
    • JustMikki  •  Fairfield, California  •  1 mth 0 days ago
      anyone who has a heart attack at the restaurant should get free food for life lol
    • Master Chief  •  1 mth 0 days ago
      T_T

      your kidding me, I should visit earth sometime soon.
    • Mark  •  1 mth 0 days ago
      LAME! These people live their lives with no moderation and go and have food at a place named Heart Attack Grill. It isn't the one Bypass you eat that does it to you. It is the years of unhealthy living that does it to you. Out of the millions that eat there and a couple of them have heart attacks. What makes this garbage article sensational is that its name has Heart Attack in it. If this happened at Denny's, it wouldn't be in the news.

      Also Gonorrhea is no where near comparable to a heart attack. These people don't just catch a heart attack. Lets just smear some nastiness from your crotch and then server it to someone....jacka**!
    • mad  •  1 mth 0 days ago
      No need to rush or anything it's not someone's having a heart attack.. Oh, wait, yes they are. No matter how ironic or stupid the person's actions were that made them ill or injured it's the paramedics job to be extremely prompt in giving medical attention. At one point it's like they are propping on the patient's gurney to write on a clipboard.
    • A  •  Jacksonville, Florida  •  1 mth 0 days ago
      how ironic a heart attack at heart attack grill lmbo
    • A  •  Jacksonville, Florida  •  1 mth 0 days ago
      wow
    • john  •  Pleasanton, California  •  1 mth 1 day ago
      Doctor Basso: "relax, everyone...those are just meat sweats there".
    • CalCyclist  •  La Quinta, California  •  3 mths ago
      At least no one can sue for false advertising.
      • DJ 3 mths ago
        LOLOLOL Truth!!!!
      • Jason 3 mths ago
        lol
      • family man 3 mths ago
        lol, I don't think you actually read the article, because your comment is right in there. :P
    • Collegekid07 .  •  Woodbridge, Virginia  •  3 mths ago
      Is it just me, or do people click on these bizarre Yahoo news reels just to read the funny comments?
      • M 3 mths ago
        lol it's not just you.
      • Bob H 3 mths ago
        I try to make as many as possible. It beats working.
      • Gary S 3 mths ago
        I hate to admit it, but I am only a spectator for the comments. It is the comment section that gives the crowd what it really came for.
    • Dan  •  3 mths ago
      He should get his name on the wall.
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