The unofficial spokesman for the Heart Attack Grill restaurant in Las Vegas - which prides itself on 'taste worth dying for' - has died of a heart attack at the age of 52.
John Alleman visited the infamous restaurant, which holds the Guinness world record for the 'most calorific burger', on a daily basis and would often stand outside encouraging other people to enter. He suffered a heart attack last week and was rushed to Sunrise Hospital, where he remained until doctors removed his life support on Monday.
The owner of the hospital-themed restaurant, 'Doctor Jon' Basso told the Las Vegas Sun: 'I told him if you keep eating like this, it's going to kill ya. 'He'd say, "I just love your place, Jon." He's the only person I know who was probably at the restaurant more than I.'
Alleman was such a valued member of the Heart Attack Grill Community that he was given his own caricature - 'Patient John' - that featured on merchandise for the restaurant. The caricature also appeared on the front of the menu, along with other hospital-themed characters representing staff.
Cause and effect
Cause and effect
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
Re: Cause and effect
Not the first one either.....
29?!?!?!? He looked at least forty!Blair River, the 575-pound spokesman for the Heart Attack Grill, an Arizona restaurant that serves shamelessly high-calorie burgers and fries, died Tuesday at the age of 29, following a bout of the flu.
At 6 feet 8 inches tall, River garnered celebrity as the grill's "Gentle Giant" when he became the face and advertising star of the medically themed restaurant -- famous for its triple-bypass burgers, flatliner lard fries and server "nurses" donning uniforms fit for adult films.
River came down with the flu last week, and after four days in the hospital, he succumbed to pneumonia, says Jon Basso, owner of the grill and close friend of River .Basso described River's death as "tragic," because he was a "young creative genius, a promising man whose life got cut short because he carried extra weight. Had he been thin, he would have had a tenfold opportunity to survive the pneumonia."
Though Basso goes by "Dr. Jon," in line with the restaurant's medical theme, he is not medically trained and so can't speak to the role obesity might have played in River's illness. The official cause of death for the hamburger model is still unknown.
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/HeartHealt ... d=13056400
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”