Heart Attack Grill in Las Vegas Sees Real-Life Heart Attack in 'Triple Bypass Burger' Eater

new calls to close down a restaurant that Prides itself on unhealthy meals a customer at the Heart Attack Grill that's the name of it was rushed to the hospital after eating a sandwich called the triple bypass Burger Health Advocates say the restaurant should be shut down ABC's Ryan Owens has that story I'll have a double bypass good the Heart Attack Grill is a bit like Hooters with a hospital theme waitresses dressed as nurses customers in surgical gowns let's get your arms in over here free food for anyone over 350 lb number the menu features a single double triple or quadruple bypass Burger complete with unlimited flatliner fries cooked in lard so when a man eating a triple bypass at the Las Vegas restaurant Saturday night suddenly appeared to need one a lot of people thought it was a publicity stunt an onlooker shot this cell phone video of paramedics taking the man with chest pains to the hospital the restaurant's owner in his doctor's costume says it was the real deal this wasn't a playful thing it's it's a very scary event we first met the fake doctor when he opened the original Heart Attack Grill near Phoenix complete with an ambulance parked outside we talked to him after the restaurant's 570 lb spokes model featured in a series of commercials a couple months ago I was wearing these died of pneumonia at the age of 29 aren't you glorifying obesity which ab obviously kills absolutely I think it would be immoral to stop at this point explain that to me we're past the point of no return at the Heart Attack Grill we have blood on our hands at this point which is exactly the point made by a washington-based health advocacy group that just sent this letter to the restaurant's owner asking him to declare moral bankruptcy and clothes we have been honest from the word go about exactly what we serve the unrepentant doctor tells us the man wheeled out of his restaurant is now doing okay after a free burger that may have nearly cost him his life for Good Morning America Ryan Owens ABC News Dallas

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Keywords: heart attack grill, las vegas heart attack grill, triple bypass burger, ryan owens, health

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Length: 2min 21sec (141 seconds)

Published: Fri Feb 17 2012