Diner eating Triple Bypass Burger hospitalized

By The Associated Press
Published: February 15, 2012
Updated: February 15, 2012 - 4:12 PM

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LAS VEGAS — Menu warnings nearly proved true for a man at a downtown Las Vegas restaurant that offers "Bypass" burgers, "Flatliner" fries and free meals to people weighing more than 350 pounds.

Amateur video shows a man being wheeled out of the Heart Attack Grill on a stretcher after a medical episode that restaurant employees say looked like, well, a heart attack.

Owner Jon Basso tells KVVU-TV FOX5 he thought it was a joke when a waitress told him a customer eating a Triple Bypass burger was sweating and shaking.

A Las Vegas fire spokesman said paramedics were summoned Saturday evening and the man was hospitalized.

Basso says he heard the man is recuperating. His name and the medical condition weren't released.