NH Man Loses Life Savings On Carnival Game

[JRNYMAN]

Words escape me at the level of stupidity.

Video: http://boston.cbslocal.com/video/882324 ... ival-game/

MANCHESTER, N.H. — A man who thought he was pretty good at ball tossing learned a hard lesson after losing $2,600 on a carnival game.

Now, he claims the game was rigged.

Henry Gribbohm, 30, says he lost his life savings playing the game at the Manchester Carnival and all he has to show for it is a giant stuffed banana with dreadlocks.

Gribbohm said he was trying to win an Xbox Kinect playing a game called “Tubs of Fun.” To win at the game, contestants try to toss balls into a tub.

When he practiced, he said it was easy. But he thinks something changed when he starting playing for the prize — the balls he tossed kept popping out of the tub.

“It’s not possible that it wasn’t rigged,” Gribbohm said.

Gribbohm told WBZ-TV in Boston he kept trying to win his money back by going double or nothing and lost $300 in just a few minutes.

He then went home to retrieve $2,300 more and he lost that money as well.

The next day, Gribbohm went back to the carnival to complain. He said the man who was running the game gave him $600 back and the giant stuffed banana.

Dismayed, Gribbohm filed a report with the Manchester Police Department. Police say they’re investigating the game to determine if any fraud was involved.

Fiesta Shows runs the traveling carnival. Company officials said the game is operated by an independent contractor who has worked for them for years. The contractor is also being interviewed by the company.

Meanwhile, the Tubs of Fun game has been removed from the carnival

[The Sushi Hunter]

$2,600 life savings? Well perhaps in the 1800's. It would definitely not go far in today's economy. As for the giant stuffed banana with dreadlocks vs an Xbox Kinect, what's the difference, both useless pieces of shit that aren't going to earn the guy a living where he can support a wife, kids and himself. If he really cared about his kid (we know he's got at least one that he's pushing around with the two AM/PM cups of coffee on top), he'd have taken the $2,600 and put it in his kid's college fund, or opened up a long term investment for the kid. What happens if he were to get killed, what would the wife and kid be able to do with the xbox? People are so fucking stupid sometimes. I guess you have to be from a fucked up family that was piss poor broke because their parents blew all their earnings on cigarettes, booze, gambling and hanging out with their friends more than they did their own kids, to know to do the right thing. Shit....when we found out my wife was pregnent with our first, my entire hobby portion of my life ended right then and there. No more planning on restoring this car or buying the fancy stereo system for my already restored car, no more fucking with music in a band, etc. all that shit was over and I've never looked back with regrets on getting rid of it all.

[verslibre]

giant stuffed banana with dreadlocks

WTF

[scarygirl]

Does an X box Kinect even cost $2600?

[The Sushi Hunter]

giant stuffed banana with dreadlocks

WTF

Maybe it's full of weed. He'd be shit happy then.

[JRNYMAN]

Does an X box Kinect even cost $2600?

Nope, not even close.

[Rick]

$2,600 life savings?

That's what I was thinking. Poor bastard. Poor dumb bastard, I should say.

[JRNYMAN]

$2,600 life savings?

That's what I was thinking. Poor bastard. Poor dumb bastard, I should say.

It's bad enough that this loser's (literally) story made the news cycle with his name attached but to then actually go on camera...?? Doing so however, served to actually confirm what my mind's eye thought he'd look like - to a tee! Tats, wife beater, wallet w/ chain, etc.

[verslibre]

It's bad enough that this loser's (literally) story made the news cycle with his name attached but to then actually go on camera...?? Doing so however, served to actually confirm what my mind's eye thought he'd look like - to a tee! Tats, wife beater, wallet w/ chain, etc.

[scarygirl]

You think he would have shot his balloons for something useful, like a single fun bag for the wife. Then, once he saved up the next $2600 he could break on through to the other side.

$2,600 life savings?

That's what I was thinking. Poor bastard. Poor dumb bastard, I should say.

[ebake02]

This guy seems like a perfect candidate for natural selection.

[JRNYMAN]

"The vendor did, however, refund $600 of his money the following day."
That's an admission to the game being rigged as far as I'm concerned. If there was nothing hinky (God, I hate that word but it just seemed to fit at this moment... ) about the "game" there's absolutely no reason why the vendor should have refunded any of the money. It's not like there was a product that was purchased that the idiot gamester returned which would then be fitting. (Think buying lots of clothes and the next day deciding you don't want some of them so you return them to the store for a refund.)
Wait... I just remembered, they refunded $600 AND gave him the dreadlocked banana. Never mind... it's all good.

[Rick]

"The vendor did, however, refund $600 of his money the following day."
That's an admission to the game being rigged as far as I'm concerned. If there was nothing hinky (God, I hate that word but it just seemed to fit at this moment... ) about the "game" there's absolutely no reason why the vendor should have refunded any of the money. It's not like there was a product that was purchased that the idiot gamester returned which would then be fitting. (Think buying lots of clothes and the next day deciding you don't want some of them so you return them to the store for a refund.)
Wait... I just remembered, they refunded $600 AND gave him the dreadlocked banana. Never mind... it's all good.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdPciselWuo

[scarygirl]

If you are that stupid to risk your life savings for an X Box Kinect.... If he had gone to the store like normal people, he would have been left with what, $2200?

"The vendor did, however, refund $600 of his money the following day."
That's an admission to the game being rigged as far as I'm concerned. If there was nothing hinky (God, I hate that word but it just seemed to fit at this moment... ) about the "game" there's absolutely no reason why the vendor should have refunded any of the money. It's not like there was a product that was purchased that the idiot gamester returned which would then be fitting. (Think buying lots of clothes and the next day deciding you don't want some of them so you return them to the store for a refund.)
Wait... I just remembered, they refunded $600 AND gave him the dreadlocked banana. Never mind... it's all good.

[JRNYMAN]

"The vendor did, however, refund $600 of his money the following day."
That's an admission to the game being rigged as far as I'm concerned. If there was nothing hinky (God, I hate that word but it just seemed to fit at this moment... ) about the "game" there's absolutely no reason why the vendor should have refunded any of the money. It's not like there was a product that was purchased that the idiot gamester returned which would then be fitting. (Think buying lots of clothes and the next day deciding you don't want some of them so you return them to the store for a refund.)
Wait... I just remembered, they refunded $600 AND gave him the dreadlocked banana. Never mind... it's all good.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdPciselWuo

EXACTLY!! I can't say that word without thinking of that scene! I'm pretty sure I'd never even heard the word prior to that! Nice to see someone else thinks along the same lines (shewed as they may be) as I do.

[JRNYMAN]

If you are that stupid to risk your life savings for an X Box Kinect.... If he had gone to the store like normal people, he would have been left with what, $2200?

"The vendor did, however, refund $600 of his money the following day."
That's an admission to the game being rigged as far as I'm concerned. If there was nothing hinky (God, I hate that word but it just seemed to fit at this moment... ) about the "game" there's absolutely no reason why the vendor should have refunded any of the money. It's not like there was a product that was purchased that the idiot gamester returned which would then be fitting. (Think buying lots of clothes and the next day deciding you don't want some of them so you return them to the store for a refund.)
Wait... I just remembered, they refunded $600 AND gave him the dreadlocked banana. Never mind... it's all good.

Well, like I stated above... he's got $600 back and apparently the dreadlocked banana is worth.... let's see.... doing the math.... $2,000! So if you look at it that way, he broke even. Now all he has to do is find out where the market is hot for those kinds of bananas, make a tidy little profit, buy his xbox and he's right back in the game. Pretty shrewd if ya ask me. Guy's a genius now that I think about it!

[Rick]

"The vendor did, however, refund $600 of his money the following day."
That's an admission to the game being rigged as far as I'm concerned. If there was nothing hinky (God, I hate that word but it just seemed to fit at this moment... ) about the "game" there's absolutely no reason why the vendor should have refunded any of the money. It's not like there was a product that was purchased that the idiot gamester returned which would then be fitting. (Think buying lots of clothes and the next day deciding you don't want some of them so you return them to the store for a refund.)
Wait... I just remembered, they refunded $600 AND gave him the dreadlocked banana. Never mind... it's all good.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdPciselWuo

EXACTLY!! I can't say that word without thinking of that scene! I'm pretty sure I'd never even heard the word prior to that! Nice to see someone else thinks along the same lines (shewed as they may be) as I do.

That's the only place I've heard it also. Great movie.

[JRNYMAN]

That's the only place I've heard it also. Great movie.

Tommy Lee Jones: "I don't want you guys using words around me that don't mean anything." LMAO!!!

[Rick]

That's the only place I've heard it also. Great movie.

Tommy Lee Jones: "I don't want you guys using words around me that don't mean anything." LMAO!!!

I think somewhere I read that Harrison Ford stated that his favorite part about making that movie was working with Tommy Lee Jones. That's a pretty nice kudo coming from a big name like Harrison Ford.

[JRNYMAN]

That's the only place I've heard it also. Great movie.

Tommy Lee Jones: "I don't want you guys using words around me that don't mean anything." LMAO!!!

I think somewhere I read that Harrison Ford stated that his favorite part about making that movie was working with Tommy Lee Jones. That's a pretty nice kudo coming from a big name like Harrison Ford.

I read or heard that too. I want to say he made that statement on Letterman IIRC but it's been too long ago. Yeah, big time kudo! And TLJ is no B-list actor himself....

[Rick]

Tommy Lee Jones: "I don't want you guys using words around me that don't mean anything." LMAO!!!

I think somewhere I read that Harrison Ford stated that his favorite part about making that movie was working with Tommy Lee Jones. That's a pretty nice kudo coming from a big name like Harrison Ford.

I read or heard that too. I want to say he made that statement on Letterman IIRC but it's been too long ago. Yeah, big time kudo! And TLJ is no B-list actor himself....

Nope, he sure isn't. I love the Men in Black movies. The only thing I didn't care for him in was the one where he was stuck in the sorority house or whatever it was with all those girls.

[verslibre]

I love the men in Black movies. The only thing I didn't care for was the one with all those girls.

Changing the light bulb in the closet, brutha?

[G.I.Jim]

I love the men in Black movies. The only thing I didn't care for was the one with all those girls.

Changing the light bulb in the closet, brutha?

I almost spit out my wine reading this. Rick's got some secrets!

[Rick]

I love the men in Black movies. The only thing I didn't care for was the one with all those girls.

Changing the light bulb in the closet, brutha?

I almost spit out my wine reading this. Rick's got some secrets!

That's a negative on that, y'all.

[Boomchild]

Gee, if this guy voted in the last election, I wonder who he voted for?