P.T. Barnum was correct.......

[Stoner4Life]

there's a sucker born every minute.

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/carnival-life-savings-135411650.html

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.

“For once in my life I happened to become that sucker,” Gribbohm said.

 

[WelderDan]

All that shit is fixed. If anybody doesn't figure that out by the time they drop any more than $10, they deserve to be taken.

 

[Green lung]

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A stuffed bannana with dreadlocks





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[joe guy]

Haha ha I own the Brooklyn bridge anyone intrested? Haha
Every game at a fiesta/carnival are rigged to a shot in the dark
Chance.. If the carnie that's runnin the game can't show u how to do it and make it
Then that should be your first clue it can't be done lol..

 

[mrcreosote]

The scariest thing about this story is the subject in question appears to be breeding.

 

[cough_cough_eer]

When I worked at six flags they had a hoop game and in the mornings they would start with the larger hoops so people will be carrying large stuffed animals for all to see, but ,as the day went on the hoops got smaller.

 

[twistedthreads]

"For once in my life I happened to become that sucker,” Gribbohm said.

I bet it wasn't the first time.

 

[Pinball Wizard]

you can't become wise until you have been taken

 

[skullznroses]

WEll I once won a goldfish at the fair, so there

 

[unspoken]

All that shit is fixed. If anybody doesn't figure that out by the time they turn 10, they deserve to be taken.

FTFY

 

[TribalSeeds]

Atleast thats a righteous banana.
He got back $600 from the guy the next day and he gets to keep the fucking banana that costs $150 online.
This fucking guy is just lucky his life savings wasnt more like $10k cuz he woulda blew that on his binge that night, or more tattoos.
The worst part of this story is that douchebag is raising a child.

 

[skullznroses]

I wish they told you how he won the banana. Something is missing for me, did he get tickets for winning to trade in for stuffed animals or is this some kind of betting. How much can an Xbox Kinect cost? $250 or something like that I bet as a wild guess. Time to go back to the video games Ace!

 

[Wiggs Dannyboy]

May as well etch this guys name on a future Darwin Award trophy right now.

 

[Stoner4Life]

“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.’”

what a jerk, first of all you never "win your money back." You either win a prize or you don't, it's a carnival, not Vegas. and secondly w/that in mind you go home, get your cash & head out to Wal-Mart to buy your X-Box.

 

[skullznroses]

if humping a stuffed animal saves you $20 bucks a night, then in like 5 months you'd be rich