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Heart Attack Grill lives up to it's name
A customer was stricken with an apparent heart attack while eating a 6,000-calorie burger called the Triple Bypass Burger at a restaurant that prides itself on serving artery clogging meals.
Confused customers at the Heart Attack Grill in Las Vegas on Saturday laughed while the man was being carted away by paramedics -- unsure if he was really suffering a medical episode.
Inside the theme restaurant there are "doctors" and ''nurses" -- staff dressed up in white coats and nurses hats -- and health warnings on the walls. Diners are given surgical gowns to wear while they choose items like "Bypass" burgers, "Flatliner" fries and buttermilk shakes.
Many in the restaurant — including its owner, "Doctor" Jon Basso, thought the incident might have been a joke.
"One of the nurses came back to me and said, 'Dr. Jon, we've got a patient who's in trouble,'" Basso told KVVU Fox5.
"It was no joke," said Basso. He said he could tell right away the man in his 40s was having trouble. He was sweating, shaking and could barely talk.
Now a Washington, D.C.-based anti-meat advocacy group now asking Basso to shut down after the episode.
Officials for the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine said Thursday they sent a letter to Basso asking him to "declare moral bankruptcy" and close the restaurant.
Susan Levin, the group's director of nutrition education, says the incident should be a wake-up call that bypass operations aren't funny.
Speaking on Fox and Friends Friday morning he defended his restaurant saying it represents values of freedoms our Founding Fathers believed in.
"There are intrusive busy body groups that want to intrude in our lives," he said, adding that Basso says he has no plans to close.
He could not say exactly how many calories are in his Triple Bypass Burger, but added that coronary episodes are not limited to older people.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2012/...#ixzz1meQC4kZb
Confused customers at the Heart Attack Grill in Las Vegas on Saturday laughed while the man was being carted away by paramedics -- unsure if he was really suffering a medical episode.
Inside the theme restaurant there are "doctors" and ''nurses" -- staff dressed up in white coats and nurses hats -- and health warnings on the walls. Diners are given surgical gowns to wear while they choose items like "Bypass" burgers, "Flatliner" fries and buttermilk shakes.
Many in the restaurant — including its owner, "Doctor" Jon Basso, thought the incident might have been a joke.
"One of the nurses came back to me and said, 'Dr. Jon, we've got a patient who's in trouble,'" Basso told KVVU Fox5.
"It was no joke," said Basso. He said he could tell right away the man in his 40s was having trouble. He was sweating, shaking and could barely talk.
Now a Washington, D.C.-based anti-meat advocacy group now asking Basso to shut down after the episode.
Officials for the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine said Thursday they sent a letter to Basso asking him to "declare moral bankruptcy" and close the restaurant.
Susan Levin, the group's director of nutrition education, says the incident should be a wake-up call that bypass operations aren't funny.
Speaking on Fox and Friends Friday morning he defended his restaurant saying it represents values of freedoms our Founding Fathers believed in.
"There are intrusive busy body groups that want to intrude in our lives," he said, adding that Basso says he has no plans to close.
He could not say exactly how many calories are in his Triple Bypass Burger, but added that coronary episodes are not limited to older people.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2012/...#ixzz1meQC4kZb
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