New Hampshire Man Loses Life Savings On Carnival Game, Gets Free Stuffed Banana

[Initech]

EPSOM, NH (CBS) – Henry Gribbohm says he lost his life savings, $2,600, on a carnival game and all he has to show for it is a stuffed banana with dreadlocks.

“You’re expecting the kids to win a few things, let the kids have a good time,” said Gribbohm. “It just didn’t turn out that way.”

Gribbohm says he attended a Manchester carnival run by New Hampshire-based Fiesta Shows and wanted to win an Xbox Kinect at a game called Tubs of Fun where contestants toss balls into a tub. When he practiced he says it was easy, but something changed when he started playing for the prize and the balls kept popping out.

http://boston.cbslocal.com/2013/04/29/nh-man-loses-life-savings-on-carnival-game/

Dude you got to know when to hold 'em and when to fold 'em!

[Exultant Democracy]

1. I have some land in Florida to sell this guy.

[Initech]

8. I know the president of Nigeria if he needs some extra cash!

[LiberalAndProud]

2. PSA: An xbox kinnect can be purchased for around $300.00.

Also, carnival games are rigged.

That is all.

[TheMadMonk]

3. Something does change. Bottom of the bucket is like a drumhead.

Chunk of rubber (or other damping material) is held up against it for the practice shots and withdrawn for the money shots.

Trick in this game is to go for the rimshot so the ball ROLLS to the bottom of the bucket.

[dballance]

4. Seriously? He Went Home to Get More Money and Came Back to Lose It.

I don't want to be mean, but didn't most of us learn at a young age when we attended those traveling carnivals that the games are rigged? I stopped playing those games when I was a pre-teen. I'm sure as hell not stupid enough to play them now as adult. And you couldn't pay me enough to get on one of those rides in a traveling carnival. Machines that have been jostled and vibrated as they travel the roads and then thrown up to run in less than a day. No way, no how anymore.

He got an expensive lesson. I hope he learned something from it; but his stupidity of going home to get more money to throw away makes me doubt he learned anything. Now, other stupid people will be sending him money to help him get his life-savings back. Atlantic City and Vegas are looking for you to visit dude.

There's a sucker born every minute.
-David Hannum, critic of P.T. Barnum

[MADem]

7. This guy has been on local and regional TV. He looks to be a few cards short of a deck.

There's some suggestion that he's bullshitting, too....that he lost six hundred, not thousands.

[Mopar151]

5. Local radio call-ins have NO Sympathy n/t

[Warren DeMontague]

6. In all fairness, that is a very nice rasta banana.