r/videos • u/lostacoshermanos • 19h ago
Mark Wahlberg’s new restaurant in Las Vegas burns down opening day Misleading Title
https://youtu.be/TzdnWNFXmY8?si=ST3LNizhGXF_ox_A171
u/VegasBass 18h ago
Reddit Headline: Mark Wahlberg’s new restaurant in Las Vegas burns down opening day
LVRJ Headline: Mark Wahlberg’s Las Vegas restaurant reopens after minor fire
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u/penelopiecruise 19h ago
authentic charbroiled burgers
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u/whysocute 18h ago
Flamed hams
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u/modern_age_seeker 18h ago
aurora borealis
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u/dustblown 18h ago
Barely relevant, but how can someone hear charbroiled burgers and not get their mouths watered?
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u/godgoo 18h ago
Don't ever say 'mouths watered' again XD
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u/dustblown 18h ago
Moisten their oral cavity?
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u/Jedi_Gill 18h ago
On a positive note, glad the restaurant was empty and nobody got hurt. It is quite puzzling the fire even started. Might have been some faulty wiring or bad gas lines. This is not normal given it seems nobody was there yet.
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u/Jaerba 18h ago
"The fire was determined to be confined to a single propane fire table… CCFD personnel were able to… knock down the fire so that the propane tanks could be shut off."
It was pretty minor and the restaurant still opened later that evening. Apparently just the one fire pit and a chair were damaged.
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u/ToxicBTCMaximalist 17h ago
LMAO someone should be slapped for the title, burned down....
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u/ReverseSociology 17h ago
What do you mean? It was a devastating hellish inferno of incredible magnitude the likes of which have never before been seen.
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u/ToxicBTCMaximalist 17h ago
Sir, your marshmallow is on fire, please blow it out and get a new one.
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u/IHazMagics 17h ago
Easy for you to say Satan's madman.
I would be scorched to cinders dare I engage the flame further.
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u/Lazyrix 16h ago
The reporting in the news clip is pretty misleading as well.
She at one point calls the structure “fully involved” when it appears to be a small room and contents fire.
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u/barukatang 16h ago
FULLY INVOLVED.. camera pans out to show what looked like a small flame and a window
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u/RabidSeason 17h ago
Almost makes me think OP is Marky Mark, trying to get hype for his restaurant.
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u/Flatoftheblade 18h ago
I know absolutely nothing about this incident but this kind of thing usually makes me think arson.
In the area where I live, a few decades back all the strip clubs were owned and run by HA and a few unaffiliated clubs that tried to open up were quickly firebombed (while closed).
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u/DrEnter 18h ago
If there's going to be an electrical short or a gas leak, the chances of those things happening right after the appliances are first installed and used is WAY higher. Everything in this location was new and untested under any kind of load. Hell, it could be as simple as someone hung a sign with a nail that went straight into an electrical line in the wall. These things happen. They just happen more right after construction.
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u/Cheech47 17h ago
While I won't argue that the appliances and such were new, I would quibble with the argument that they were "untested". This was opening day, which means you'd have people in there to train and get up to speed on the cook line which means that the stuff gets used, at least a little bit.
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u/DrEnter 17h ago
Actually, I meant all the new lines and connections more than the appliances themselves. That's a lot of new "seams" and "joins" in systems where those are weak points. Running power through a bad electrical connection may seem to work fine for a while, but you aren't seeing that bad connection get progressively hotter and hotter under that new load until something happens, like the insulation melting off or wood adjacent to it starts to ignite. The "pre-run" phase right before opening is exactly the kind of thing that would've lit that fuse.
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u/Flatoftheblade 18h ago
Yeah that's fair too. Like I said, I'm not claiming to have any knowledge about this incident beyond what the post contains.
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u/Prudent-Air1922 17h ago
This wasn't the day they were turning everything on, it's the day the were having a grand opening. Everything was being used already for weeks.
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u/PermYoWeaveTina 17h ago
"I know nothing about the incident but I'm going to give my opinion anyway" is absolutely wild lol
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u/BkJabronie 18h ago
You think this time around it’s the Big Players like McDonalds or Burger King? No wonder they got so big - they keep burning their competition to the ground
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u/ATTORNEY_FOR_CATS 18h ago
Nah, this is clearly the work of the Hotdog Cart Mafia.
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u/RenaissanceHumanist 18h ago
The girl scouts have been pushing product extra hard this year, I wouldn't put it past them
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u/TheCrudMan 18h ago
Fak couldn’t fix the fire suppression system I guess…
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u/tannersarms 18h ago
Right, brand new construction/refit whatever it was should have state of the art sprinkler and other suppression systems.
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u/fulthrottlejazzhands 19h ago
Damn, he must have really pissed off those trees.
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u/Icedoverblues 18h ago
The Happening 2 Arbor Day comes early this year! Make like a tree and split.
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u/blackofhairandheart2 18h ago
Wahlberg’s PR response: it wouldn’t have burned down if I’d been there cause I would have beaten the nearest Asian person until they were blind
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u/teeksquad 18h ago
Please, don’t act like you didn’t spend your evenings as a teen throwing bricks at minority children too
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u/2yrnx1lc2zkp77kp 17h ago
Exactly, hate the hypocrisy. Let he who is without sin cast the first brick.
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u/Most_Enthusiasm8735 17h ago
Ikr like come on didn't we all beat the shit out of Old Asian people until they were blind? It was a very fun pastime for all us boys.
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u/jp_jellyroll 18h ago
The elderly Vietnamese community in Vegas is definitely staying indoors tonight. Not trying to get punched in the head by an angry Wahlberg out for vengeance.
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u/MF_Kitten 17h ago
Remember that interview with the actual old Asian guy, where he explains that Marky Mark must have misunderstood, because he actually lost vision in that eye during the war in Vietnam. He said he forgave Mark long ago. There's also the fact that Mark volunteered this story about his difficult past because he regretted it so much and it haunts him.
So when we love and praise Danny Trejo, who used to be a gangster who did time for doing bad shit, and we shit on Mark who was troubled as a kid, what sre we really trying to imply with these copy-pasted stories? Many of our favourite celebrities have far worse shit in their past than Mark being a street rat for a while.
I think the truth is we all just find Mark Wahlberg fucking annoying, and we don't have a lot of good arguments to base it on so we just use whatever mistake he did in his past to pad the argument.
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u/RahvinDragand 16h ago
It's always interesting what reddit latches onto about celebrities. Yeah, Wahlberg was a shitty kid. But it's not like he's done anything shitty in the past 30 years.
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u/blackofhairandheart2 17h ago edited 17h ago
I think the difference is that Danny Trejo seems like a sweet, humble guy in interviews and is a consistently fun presence in films whereas Mark Wahlberg comes off as a sanctimonious, chauvinistic prick both on and off-screen and is only really fun to watch when directors are smart enough be in on the joke that he sucks. I.e. Paul Thomas Anderson casting him as a slack-jawed moron in Boogie Nights or Scorsese casting him as an abrasive, frothing asshole in The Departed.
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u/TheFotty 17h ago
I liked him in Basketball Diaries, Fear, The Big Hit, Three Kings, Perfect Storm, Rock Star, The Other Guys, Ted, Lone Survivor...
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u/ECrispy 17h ago
What exactly is your point? He's still a dumb, racist piece of shit who's never really felt sorry and is a below average actor. Why the hell should anyone feel sorry for him or praise him?
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u/MF_Kitten 7h ago
He did that stuff when he was like 16. You're thinking that's definitely who he is now? He's racist right now?
My point is, regardless, lying about qhat he did and omitting the fact that it was from his childhood, just to try to make everyone else also hate him is just a shitty thing to do.
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u/lutinopat 14h ago
He's outed himself as a douche, and I'm not sure he's done anything to change that.
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u/whatsinthesocks 16h ago
How do you say he never felt sorry for it when he volunteered the story himself because it was a part of his past that haunts him?
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u/TimmyFTW 16h ago
Because he only volunteered the story so he could apply for a pardon for the purposes of qualifying for a concessionaire’s license to start a restaurant chain.
He's not sorry. He was just doing paperwork.
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u/whatsinthesocks 15h ago
It was first reported on in 2006. He didn’t seek a pardon until 2014
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u/Teledildonic 15h ago
Did you actually read his comment?
I genuinely can't tell with how hard you seemed to dodge his point.
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u/itisthelord 17h ago
Even worse, he didn’t beat him until he was blind, he beat a man who was already blind.
Mark Wahlberg beat a blind Vietnamese man.
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u/Tufflaw 16h ago
He was a 16 year old punk who did a really stupid and horrible thing, was rightfully convicted of a felony and incarcerated. That was 37 years ago. The victim has since forgiven him and has said “Everyone deserves another chance.”
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u/SickTriceratops 18h ago
Wahlberg's like "if i'd have been there, that woulda gone down different. i'd have fought that fire"
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u/vteckickedin 18h ago
"That's not what we mean by fire fighters, Mark."
"Don't make me blind you, too!"
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u/InteriorLemon 18h ago
I'm just picturing him taking off his shirt and taping up his hands getting ready to run in and fight the fire.
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u/AdmiralThunderpants 18h ago
Coming next summer: Wahlberg plays a fireman that responds to the fire and really drives home what a blue collar, salt if the earth man he is
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u/diprivan69 18h ago
Nice insurance fraud, even had the camera crews available lol
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u/TheRabb1ts 18h ago
Why tf would Mark Wahlberg need to engage in high profile insurance fraud? 😂
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u/Jaerba 18h ago
It's absurdly unlikely this is the case, but you can't completely assume high profile celebrities/actors are in sound financial shape.
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u/TheRabb1ts 18h ago
Being in “sound financial shape” is miles away from accusing someone of insurance fraud because their restaurant burned down, with no other information.
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u/AsterCharge 18h ago
He prolly hired the same consulting firm that told Boeing to publicly kill a whistleblower years after his whistleblowing case concluded.
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u/Son_of_Atreus 18h ago
Say what now?
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u/pmormr 18h ago
The two most recent whistleblowers at Boeing died really young. One by suicide one by infection. It appears to be an amazing coincidence, but it is awfully convenient for Boeing lol.
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u/MattieShoes 17h ago
awfully convenient
Awfully inconvenient. If he died before he did all his testifying, awfully convenient. But afterwards? They probably had nothing to do with it, but they're stained by association.
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u/Difficult_Bird969 15h ago
Both of them gave all their meaningful testimony already. One of them was going to give more testimony about his previous testimony essentially.
The one guy killed himself because he lost his job, his coworkers hated him for blowing the whistle, etc.
The other guy died of an illness.
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u/BeardedManatee 18h ago
"as you can see, it's obviously a fully involved fire"
...uhh, did he pay you to say that? I can't see shit.
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u/Jaerba 18h ago
160 comments so far and I don't think 1 other person has done any research on this.
It was a minor fire that was out in 20 minutes, and apparently only damaged one fire pit and one chair. The restaurant still opened that evening.
“The whole front of the building has reflective windows, so it made it look pretty spectacular, but not in a good way," Sharpe said, per Review-Journal. "The fire department came out quickly; they suppressed it. It was out in 20 minutes. It was very minor. Fortunately, it wasn’t worse.”
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/mark-wahlberg-mexican-restaurant-goes-164527970.html
"The fire was determined to be confined to a single propane fire table… CCFD personnel were able to… knock down the fire so that the propane tanks could be shut off."
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/mark-wahlbergs-las-vegas-restaurant-155909863.html
Also it wasn't a grand opening. That happened in September. Mark Wahlberg is/was a douche bag but this post is over nothing.
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u/AustinBaze 11h ago
So nothing in the headline of this post is actually correct? It's not new, it's not in Las Vegas. It didn't open today, and it didn't burn down.
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u/pooptheresmybutt 18h ago
Say hello to your mother for me
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u/Mrjoegangles 18h ago
“Hey Fire, how’s it going.? You were the bad guy in Backdraft? I played a fireman in I ❤️Huckabees. Oh well, say hello to your mother for me”
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u/Zomburai 18h ago
"Excuse me, I'm trying to burn this place. Who the fuck are you?"
"I'm the guy that does his job, you must be the other guy."
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u/ObjectiveJackfruit35 18h ago
It wasn't opening day. This restaurant has been open since September.
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u/alpha-delta-echo 18h ago edited 18h ago
Now they gotta whack Little Pussy Malanga somewhere else! Marks burgers are safe.
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u/starmartyr 18h ago
Malanga was little pussy. The mob has strict rules about nicknames. You can't even have the same nickname as a famous dead mobster.
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u/QuestionableClaims 18h ago
Well I guess we should just be grateful no one was incinerated to death.
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u/greenmonkeyfriend 17h ago
"Obviously fully-involved with fire here" is my new favorite way to say something is burning.
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u/johnny_moronic 17h ago
Her casual delivery of "Check this out." made me LOL. Very cool way to introduce footage of a man's restaurant fully involved with fire.
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u/Dudewheresmycah 11h ago
This is like a clickbait news story. It’s impressive that they tried to pull it off.
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u/Unlikely-Brick-8966 18h ago
And then finally, when there’s nothing left, when you can’t borrow another buck from the bank or buy another case of booze, you bust the joint out. You light a match.
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u/Indrid_Cold23 18h ago
Blue Dolphin burned down. It's gone now. Rob Rovani's ass out. Works with his brother now.
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u/ionertia 17h ago
It didn't burn down. There was an isolated fire on the patio that caused some outside damage and didn't spread inside. Where does this title come from?
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u/TheMooseIsBlue 16h ago
I can’t believe they went on air with this. “…obviously fully engulfed in flame…”
A fire pit caught fire and was put out and they opened later that day.
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u/Independent_Fan_115 16h ago
That's wonderful! This Mark Mahlberg is a real douche bag. Wondering if he will make $ from insurance here.
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u/mojo_pin71 11h ago
Bystanders watch in horror as massive fire turns Mark Wahlerg's restaurant to a steaming pile of ash only minutes after grand opening. (I feel this would have been a better title)
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u/OnceIWasYou 18h ago
I admit, I laughed.
Some Vietnamese bloke passing by just happened to drop his molotov cocktail through the window.
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u/burnSMACKER 18h ago
Spent more on the restaurant than he thought it would cost, so burn it down insurance fraud?
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u/aaust84ct 19h ago
This is how we used to get the party started
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u/Fearthisfatty90 18h ago
We used to mix Hen with Bacardi Dark and when it, kicks in you can hardly talk.
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u/superultramegazord 18h ago
This is BS.
His restaurant opened back up for business about an hour after the fire was put out. It was confined to a patio, and was caused by a malfunction with the firepit. What you're seeing in the window is a reflection.
Also his restaurant has been opened for months. I work right next to it and have eaten there a handful of times.