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Yet another person has a heart attack at the Heart Attack Grill, nation collectively rolls eyes
By Jeremy GlassApril 25th, 2012, 11:45 amComments (10)
Aside from their delicious menu, the big thing Las Vegas' Heart Attack Grill has going for them is their increasingly true-to-life advertising. Yet another patron has suffered a heart attack after consuming a double-bypass burger. The Las Vegas restaurant is a strict adherent to the city's "fuck all the laws" attitude, boasting a menu that offers Lucky Strikes cigarettes, Colt 45, and Olde English malt liquor, butter fat & vodka milkshakes, and a free meal for customers over 350 pounds. The woman, reportedly in her mid-forties, was smoking a cigarette and drinking a margarita before she fell unconscious.
While it is still undetermined whether her heart attack was directly caused by her meal, this reporter would like to go on the record and say: "Yeah, there's a pretty good chance it was."
In February, a man in his forties became the Grill's first victim, and had to be wheeled out of the restaurant after he became sluggish and unintelligible. And if that sounds bad, here's the video that shows the events unfolding.
The restaurant's owner, "Dr. Jon," released this snarky statement about the Grill's impact on the human body:
Doctors agree that continually cycling weight up and down is one of the very worst things a person can do to themselves. That's why our program is focused upon keeping your weight in an extremely stable, gradual, and constant upward slope.
I suspect that this "Dr. Jon" may not be an accredited doctor.
Of course, Heart Attack Grill does take their product's dangerous consequences seriously, putting up signs that read "This Establishment is Bad For Your Health." But it's still all in service to the grand old spirit of Las Vegas: lose all your money, drink in public, see a few nudie shows, maybe get a handy, and then pig out. I'm just wondering how many people are going to die in or around this restaurant before... well, fuck, something happens? I don't know. You can't punish a restaurant for creating terrible, irresponsible hell-food any more than you can punish stupid people for eating it. But two heart attacks on the premises? How many more is it going to take before this place shuts down, or at least starts to lose money?
I say five.
Commentarium (10 Comments)
I say they should open more restaurants and grant them exempt status from all laws regarding food, cigs, and alcohol. And maybe even nudity. Then watch Darwin go to work.
Yeah, just because something is available doesn't mean you have to ingest it. So absurd that trans fats were banned in NYC. I avoided them, but why make them illegal if dumb people want to shove them down their gullets.
Maybe we could allow people to make their own decisions and live with the consequences. And it's unlikely to be Darwin that goes to work, it's the free market.
"feeling ghetto?"
"feeling ghetto?"
did I seriously see that
more offended by the "Get Her To Try New Positions!"
How about the "I like it in the can" from the waitress/nurse?
Remember the movie LEAVING LAS VEGAS?
All the awards and accolades about someone who goes to Las Vegas to drink, die and sort of fuck?
Backed by the reality story of author of the book it was based on killing himself during production.
Viva Las Vegas.
The Heart Attack Grill is no better and no worse than Las Vegas or it's media images. It is what it is because of what it is....a land of excess and death...with a beer back.
I guess my confusion stems from the fact that when I am trying to think of a product to make money off of, I would steer away from products that are not just possibly unhealthy for some consumers, but products that are blatantly dangerously unhealthy for all consumers.
If the consumer could be considered someone who "doesn't know any better" or doesn't care enough to avoid it, it wouldn't be unethical to provide that person with something that would do definite and immediate harm to them? A similar analogy might be selling cigarettes to children...Just because they can make their own choice whether or not to do it, does that mean it's okay to provide a dangerous product to a person who is not knowledgeable enough to know that they should avoid it for their own health?
you've heard of the United States of America, right?
you know that to make a point, you might want to explain it, right?