Spending a day at the carnival turned out not to be the “win-win” that Henry Gribbohm had possibly hoped it would. The 30-year-old Epsom, New Hampshire resident ended up largely on the losing end of a “Tubs of Fun” carnival game, to the tune of two-thousand, six hundred dollars; his entire life savings. Mr. Gribbohm did not however, come away completely empty handed. Upon returning the following day to protest his losses, he was given $600 of his money back, and a large yellow stuffed banana with dreadlocks.
According to news sources, Gribbohm initially spent $300 on the carnival attraction, in an effort to win an XBox Kinect for his children. Once that initial amount was depleted, he went home, retrieved an additional $2,300 and returned with a dogged determination to win the prize, even going so far as to wager “double or nothing” in the endeavor. (Kudos for tenacity!) Now, Mr. Gribbohm has filed a report with local police, believing the game to have been purposefully fraudulent. Local Manchester, NH police are investigating.
Several news outlets have mused on the story, including the International Business Times, which quoted Gribbohm as stating, “It’s not possible that it [the game] wasn’t rigged.”
John Flynn, the vice president of Fiesta Shows, which contracts with various vendors and attraction operators, has stated to Boston CBS affiliate WBZ-TV that this particular attraction is run by a contractor that Fiesta has not found issues with in the past. Representatives for Fiesta Shows have also refuted Gribbohm’s claims of having spent $2,600 on the game.
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