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A waitress dressed as a nurse at the Heart Attack Grill holds up a triple bypass burger. (AP)

It turns out Heart Attack Grill isn’t just a name.

A customer suffered a heart attack while trying to put down a Triple Bypass Burger, according to  Fox 5 News in Las Vegas. The man reportedly is recovering from the heart attack. His name was not released.

“He was having the sweats and shaking,” said ‘Nurse’ Bridgett, who was working at the restaurant when the man in his 40s began experiencing chest pains.

“Doctor” Jon Basso, who opened the infamous restaurant in October, told FOX5 at first he thought it was a joke.

“One of the nurses came back to me and said, ‘Dr. Jon, we’ve got a patient who’s in trouble.’”

The restaurant is known for not holding back on the food it serves. The menu includes items like Flatliner Fries, and Bypass Burgers. A meal can easily exceed 8,000 calories.

The restaurant made headlines in 2010 for offering free food to patrons over a certain weight.

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The mashup novel Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter gave us a different view of our 16th president. Of the film adaptation, Chronicle film critic Amy Biancolli says, “it follows a butt-kicking Abe on his lifelong quest to rid the world of the undead bloodsuckers who killed his mother.”

What, you missed that class in high school? Then you probably also missed the discussion of his behavior during the Lincoln-Douglas debate of 1858, when he stripped down to his tattooed chest and smashed a chair. (See: Diet Mountain Dew commercial, 2009.)

The trailer of Seth Grahame-Smith’s novel is out and it’s quite the story, if you’re not familiar. Says Time Magazine:

Honest Abe is born into an era of bloodsuckers, during a time of mass immigration, as the vampires are being flushed out of Europe. His grandfather was killed by a vampire, his mother was the victim to the poisons of vampire blood. When he’s elected president, he leads the charge into the Civil War as a means of averting a systematic takeover of America by power-hungry vampire hordes. This is goofy, glorious stuff.

So not real faithful to our history books, but it’s fun. It’s produced by Tim Burton, no surprise there, and directed by Wanted‘s Timur Bekmambetov and will be released June 22.

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Pete Finch, the son of Bridgeport Mayor Bill Finch and pseudo-emcee, has released a new video for the song “Money Mouth.”

In it, Finch takes on American excess and the Occupy Wall Street movement in his nearly indecipherable staccato delivery, rapping, “Concerned citizens or immature dissidents. Peasants exchange pleasantries. Businesses trade exit fees.”

Finch is  signed to Wave-Shaper Records, a loose collective of rappers, according to the label’s website.

Another nugget from Finch’s online bio, describes the young emcee’s relationship with his father, “the Mayor of Bridgeport Connecticut so the Money Mouth video comes at a really good time where both father and son in their own way have become stalwart watch dogs for the people and in doing so, educating those who will listen, about the economic land mines that are out there just waiting to be stepped on across the reigion, across the nation, indeed across the globe.”

Watch the video below: