Post by Grumpyoldman on Apr 30, 2013 10:46:58 GMT -5
A New Hampshire man just bought himself one expensive banana.
CBS Boston reports that Henry Gribbohm, 30, gambled away his life savings in an attempt to win an Xbox Kinect. The culprit in this case wasn’t a slot machine or a casino give-away, but a carnival game called “Tubs of Fun.”
After blowing through his $2,600 in savings, Gribbohm says he didn’t even win the Xbox. Instead, he walked away with a stuffed Rastafarian-style banana.
Gribbohm tells CBS Boston that he began playing the game at a carnival in Manchester, N.H. He found it easy enough to toss the provided balls into a tub during a practice round, but says things changed when he started playing for keeps. Toss after toss, the balls were fatefully ejected from the tubs. He quickly blew through $300 before going home to get an additional $2,300. Soon enough, Tubs of Fun had cleaned him out.
“It’s not possible that it wasn’t rigged,” Gribbohm tells CBS Boston. “You just get caught up in the whole ‘I’ve got to win my money back.’”
Distraught over his losses, Gribbohm returned to the stand the next day and talked with the man running Tubs of Fun. He got back $600 and was given the token banana.
Now, Tubs of Fun has been banned from another nearby carnival while Fiesta Shows, the company who hired the game operator, probes the incident. Local police are also investigating.
But Fiesta Vice President John Flynn tells CBS Boston it’s “pretty next to impossible” to lose $2,600 playing Tubs of Fun. He said he’s never heard of an incident like this before.
Still reeling over his big loss, Gribbohm says he may sue.
“For once in my life I happened to become that sucker,” says Gribbohm. “It was foolish for putting up my life savings.”
Kind of reminds me of a live-version cut-away of a Family Guy episode!
- How much respect did his child lose for him?
- How do you go double-or-nothing in a carnival game? Was he going to win two Kinects? A Kinect and a banana? Was there money involved? Was he going to win a Kinect and all his money back?
- Why did the carnival employee willingly give $600 if it wasn't a setup? Was this hush money or is the employee that dumb?
- Was he wearing a white tank top because he's trying to go hard or because he lost all his money and that's all he can afford?
- Can bananas get high?
- Does this guy know he has a gambling problem?
- How bad is he at this game that he never won? It seems statistically impossible to lose that much over that much amount of time.
- Did the reporter really think asking "Are there scams with these games," was going to give him any other answer than a no?
- Why did he have $2600 in cash just lying around his house?
- What kind of item was the $2600 in cash in?
- Are his parents dead so they don't have to witness their son's life? We hope so.
- Was he really wearing one of those cellphone belt clips?
- Why doesn't he have any shame about wasting $2600 on a $100 item then willingly going on television to talk about it?
CBS Boston reports that Henry Gribbohm, 30, gambled away his life savings in an attempt to win an Xbox Kinect. The culprit in this case wasn’t a slot machine or a casino give-away, but a carnival game called “Tubs of Fun.”
After blowing through his $2,600 in savings, Gribbohm says he didn’t even win the Xbox. Instead, he walked away with a stuffed Rastafarian-style banana.
Gribbohm tells CBS Boston that he began playing the game at a carnival in Manchester, N.H. He found it easy enough to toss the provided balls into a tub during a practice round, but says things changed when he started playing for keeps. Toss after toss, the balls were fatefully ejected from the tubs. He quickly blew through $300 before going home to get an additional $2,300. Soon enough, Tubs of Fun had cleaned him out.
“It’s not possible that it wasn’t rigged,” Gribbohm tells CBS Boston. “You just get caught up in the whole ‘I’ve got to win my money back.’”
Distraught over his losses, Gribbohm returned to the stand the next day and talked with the man running Tubs of Fun. He got back $600 and was given the token banana.
Now, Tubs of Fun has been banned from another nearby carnival while Fiesta Shows, the company who hired the game operator, probes the incident. Local police are also investigating.
But Fiesta Vice President John Flynn tells CBS Boston it’s “pretty next to impossible” to lose $2,600 playing Tubs of Fun. He said he’s never heard of an incident like this before.
Still reeling over his big loss, Gribbohm says he may sue.
“For once in my life I happened to become that sucker,” says Gribbohm. “It was foolish for putting up my life savings.”
Kind of reminds me of a live-version cut-away of a Family Guy episode!
- How much respect did his child lose for him?
- How do you go double-or-nothing in a carnival game? Was he going to win two Kinects? A Kinect and a banana? Was there money involved? Was he going to win a Kinect and all his money back?
- Why did the carnival employee willingly give $600 if it wasn't a setup? Was this hush money or is the employee that dumb?
- Was he wearing a white tank top because he's trying to go hard or because he lost all his money and that's all he can afford?
- Can bananas get high?
- Does this guy know he has a gambling problem?
- How bad is he at this game that he never won? It seems statistically impossible to lose that much over that much amount of time.
- Did the reporter really think asking "Are there scams with these games," was going to give him any other answer than a no?
- Why did he have $2600 in cash just lying around his house?
- What kind of item was the $2600 in cash in?
- Are his parents dead so they don't have to witness their son's life? We hope so.
- Was he really wearing one of those cellphone belt clips?
- Why doesn't he have any shame about wasting $2600 on a $100 item then willingly going on television to talk about it?
I dont know good luck 
