Man loses life savings on carnival game
Man loses life savings on carnival game
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.'â€
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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last commentMust be one of those whales everybody has been talking about on here.
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Life savings was $2600? Think he was in trouble already. Did he get that poor by following txtittyfan's financial advice?
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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.
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Seen a pic of this dude, tattoos all up and down his arms - white trash some would say.
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Wth does this have to do with Strip Club?
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^^^
An example of a worse way to lose your life savings than with a stripper
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Carnival games are rigged? Who knew?
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www.foxnews.com
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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).
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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.
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damn, the real problem is what is he doing with his life that his life savings is only 2.6K
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