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Man loses life savings on carnival game

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Man loses life savings on carnival game

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A New Hampshire man who thought he had a decent ball toss says he lost his life savings—or about $2,600—playing a carnival game he claims was rigged.

Henry Gribbohm told WBZ-TV that he was attempting to win an Xbox Kinect at the Manchester carnival when things went awry.

The 30-year-old from Epsom, N.H., was playing a game called Tubs of Fun in which contestants toss balls into a tub, but the balls kept popping out.

“It's not possible that it wasn't rigged,” Gribbohm said. “You just get caught up in the whole ‘I've got to win my money back.'”

Gribbohm lost $300, WBZ-TV reports, "went home to get $2,300 more and soon lost all of that as well."
Manchester police are investigating the incident, and New Hampshire-based Fiesta Shows, which produces the traveling carnival, is pulling Tubs of Fun for the time being.

Gribbohm, who managed to win a stuffed banana with dreadlocks before dropping $2,600, says he's considering a lawsuit.

>>>So many levels of pathetic in this it's truly remarkable...<<<

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shadowcat
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12 years ago
Must be one of those whales everybody has been talking about on here.
Dougster
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12 years ago
Life savings was $2600? Think he was in trouble already. Did he get that poor by following txtittyfan's financial advice?
mjx01
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12 years ago
2.6k does not qualify as life saving.

The man hours alone for the police investigation will cost the tax payers way more than 2.6k.
deogol
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12 years ago
Seen a pic of this dude, tattoos all up and down his arms - white trash some would say.
59
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12 years ago
Wth does this have to do with Strip Club?
motorhead
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12 years ago
^^^
An example of a worse way to lose your life savings than with a stripper
jackslash
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12 years ago
Carnival games are rigged? Who knew?
farmerart
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12 years ago
I once lost my life savings on a carnival game, too. The game was that machine that cost a nickel at a chance to pick up a package of 5 nickels or a silver dollar with the jaws of the crane-like machine.

I was 7 years old. At that time my life savings amounted to about $1.30 (bounty income from killing gophers @ $0.01/gopher tail).
cky2k827
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12 years ago
He could have just bought the Kinnect at the store for way less than $2600......what a dumbass and waste of police time.I'm sure he and the stuffed rasta banana he did win will enjoy they're future together.They both have the same brain.
Estafador
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12 years ago
damn, the real problem is what is he doing with his life that his life savings is only 2.6K
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