Article: I was going to be ripped; Diet pill proves to be nearly deadly

Dubuque Wahlert High School

If you are going to be a big, tough wrestler like me, you need to take a diet pill; at least that's what the television commercial said.

If you want your lean body mass to be able to beat up anyone with these muscles, take this diet pill (which I won't name).

It is the diet pill of every WWE wrestler and racecar driver worldwide.

It all sounded good to me because my lifetime dream is to be a big, tough wrestler. One day after seeing one of those diet pill commercials, I bought the product.

"I'm going to be ripped," I thought to myself. I popped a pill and thought about doing a "frogsplash" off my car. Boy, I could not wait to get huge.

As soon as I got home, I ...

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