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Heart Attack Grill Restaurant, Where Over 350 Pound Customers Eat Free

October 21st, 2011 by admin | 21 Comments | Filed in food, places

Heart Attack Grill will surely send you to the surgeon in no time. This hospital theme restaurant restaurant in Dallas, Texas, where over 350 pound customers eat free, features menus with names you will hear mostly when you are visiting your cardiologist. Their menu includes “Single”, “Double”, “Triple”, and “Quadruple Bypass” hamburgers.

Heart Attack Grill restaurant. Image via

The restaurant was founded by Jon Basso in 2005 with the intent of serving food “so bad for you it’s shocking”, also known as “nutritional pornography”. One of the restaurant’s promotions is a reward for customers who finish a Triple or Quadruple Bypass Burger, after which they are placed on a wheelchair and wheeled out to their vehicle by their staffs dressed in nurse outfit.

The Quadruple Bypass Burger. Image via

Their biggest food on the menu, the Quadruple Bypass Burger has 8,000 calories – that’s equivalent to five days worth of food for an average person. It has been identified as one of the “world’s worst junk foods”. It consists of four half-pound beef patties, eight slices of American cheese, a whole tomato and half an onion served in a bun coated with lard. The restaurant was featured on the Travel Channel on an episode of Extreme Pig-outs.

Heart Attack Grill Diet Program promotional video.

Moammar Gadhafi, Libya’s Dictator President, Captured and Killed by his People

October 21st, 2011 by admin | 3 Comments | Filed in offbeat news, people

Finally, after more than 40 years of being Libya’s dictator president and more than two months in hiding, Moammar Gadhafi was captured and killed be his own people. The Libyan rebels found him hiding in a culvert in his home town of Sirte, Libya.

Moammar Gadhafi, Libya’s dictator president at the AU summit. Image via

Reporters on the scene in the town of Sirte said that it was likely that NATO forces hit a convoy of about 15 vehicles fleeing to the west of the town. Qaddafi and the survivors took refuge in a drainpipe off the highway. After a brief firefight with the rebel fighters they surrender.

Dead Moammar Gadhafi picture.

The video below, taken using a cellphone camera, shows Gadhafi during the last minutes of his life (or probably dead already) while he was dragged by the Libyan rebels. Warning, this video is very graphic.

Terry Thompson of Zanesville, Ohio Freed Exotic Animal Before Committing Suicide

October 20th, 2011 by admin | 4 Comments | Filed in offbeat news

Many exotic wild animals, 56 in all, was freed by their owner, Terry Thomson of Zanesville, Ohio, before he allegedly committed suicide in his 73-acre farmland. The wild animals including tigers, six black bears, two grizzlies, three leopards, two wolves, 17 lions, three macaque monkeys – one of them possibly carrying the Herpes B virus and still at large.

Exotic animal warning at Zanesville, Ohio. Image via

Officers found Terry Thompson, the 62-year-old owner, dead in his farm from an apparently self-inflicted wound after they received several complains about animals running free. Since 2004, Thomson had been charged with animal cruelty 11 times. Authorities ordered a shot-to-kill hunt on the animals before they can hurt people. In all, they killed 49 of the wild animals which included 18 endangered Bengal tigers.

Watch this video as neighbors describe Terry Thompson. In the background you can hear gun shots as authorities search and destroy the wild animals.

Alan Billis Donates Body For Ancient Egyptian Mummification

October 19th, 2011 by admin | 3 Comments | Filed in human body, people, science

When Alan Billis was dying, one of his wish was to donate his body to be mummified using the same techniques that ancient Egyptians performed on King Tutankhamun. Well, he got his wish granted by a reality TV show who filmed the entire procedure. The result is a documentary entitled “Mummifying Alan: Egypt’s Last Secret”.

Alan Billis donates body for mummification. Image via

Billis, a 61-year-old taxi driver, died in January 2011 after suffering from lung cancer. He heard about the search for a body donor to undergo the mummification procedure that scientist has been working on recreating for years. A self-confess documentary film lover, he said he had just one regret of the procedure – that he will not be around to see it.

Alan Billis and his wife who supported his decision to be mummified. Image via

Face to Face with an Oceanic Whitetip Shark

October 19th, 2011 by admin | No Comments | Filed in xo photo

Face to Face with an Oceanic Whitetip Shark taken in the Bahamas. Image via

Toe Jam, Amazing Armless Guitar Man Plays with his Feet

October 18th, 2011 by admin | No Comments | Filed in people

Tony Melendez, also known as Toe Jam, was born without arms but it did not deter him from doing what he want – his love of music. This amazing armless man plays guitar with his feet. In fact, he plays better than others who plays with their hands. Watch him sing “Let it be” by The Beatles.

100-Year-Old Fauja Singh Completes 26.2-mile Marathon

October 18th, 2011 by admin | No Comments | Filed in people, sports

In approximately eight hours, 100-Year-Old Fauja Singh was able to complete the Scotiabank Toronto Waterfront Marathon. This feat made him the oldest person ever to finish the said race. His official time is 8 hours, 25 minutes and 17 seconds.

100-Year-Old Fauja Singh Completes Scotiabank Toronto Waterfront Marathon. Image via

Singh said that his secret to his long life and extraordinary stamina is a smoke and alcohol free life. He is also a vegetarian and walk or run up to 10 miles per day. The Scotiabank Toronto Waterfront Marathon was only his eighth race. He did not start running marathons until he was 89-years-old when he migrated to England.

Superman fan Herbert Chavez Underwent Cosmetic Surgeries to Look Like His Idol

October 14th, 2011 by admin | 2 Comments | Filed in people

Just how far you will go to look like your idol? Apparently for Superman fan Herbert Chavez of Calamba City, Philippines, he will do anything, even undergoing multiple surgeries just to look like Superman. These transformations made him “village superman” in his neighborhood.

Superman fan Herbert Chavez before and after his cosmetic surgeries. Image via

This Filipino designer undergone a series of cosmetic procedures that have made his nose higher and slimmed down his thighs. He has had surgery on his cheeks, lips and chin, and injections to whiten his skin all in more than a decade. And he’s not stopping there. His next plan is to have an operation that will give him a more muscular abdomen and maybe surgery in Japan that will insert metal in his legs to make him taller.

Herbert Chavez poses with his life-sized Superman statues. Image via

TV producer Duffy Kelly Chased by Wild Turkey

October 14th, 2011 by admin | 4 Comments | Filed in animal, funny videos

Duffy Kelly, a TV producer for News10 Channel, decided to investigate after hearing about wild turkeys chasing residents and joggers in the Arden area neighborhood in California. Well, she got what she came for after the said turkey chased her.

4.5-Billion-Year-Old Meteorite Hit French Family Home

October 13th, 2011 by admin | 8 Comments | Filed in science, xo feat

Martine Comette of Paris, France, got a feat more rare, a lot rarer, than hitting the lottery jackpot – her family house was hit by a 4.5-billion-year-old meteorite. The space rock hit the house while they were on vacation, so they didn’t know they have an “alien visitor” until their roof started leaking. The roof tiler who checked the roof discovered the rock in the attic insulation.

4.5-Billion-Year-Old Meteorite hit French family home. Image via

The egg-size, three-ounce meteor is called a “chondrite”. Meteor expert Alain Carion identified it by the “black fusion crust that characterizes the crossing of the Earth’s atmosphere”. It came all the way down from an asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.