NH Man Loses Life Savings On Carnival Game - Polidicks

[IMG]http://cbsboston.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/carnival.jpg?w=300[/IMG] [QUOTE]EPSOM, NH (CBS) – Henry Gribbohm says he lost his life savings, $2600, on a carnival game and all he has to show [B]for it is a stuffed banana with dreadlocks.[/B] “You’re expecting the kids to win a few things, let the kids have a good time,” said Gribbohm. “It just didn’t turn out that way.” Gribbohm says he attended a Manchester carnival run by New Hampshire-based Fiesta Shows and wanted to win an Xbox Kinect at a game called Tubs of Fun where contestants toss balls into a tub. When he practiced he says it was easy, but something changed when he started playing for the prize and the balls kept popping out. “For once in my life I happened to become that sucker,” said Gribbohm. “It was foolish for putting up my life savings.” [/QUOTE] [url]http://boston.cbslocal.com/2013/04/29/nh-man-loses-life-savings-on-carnival-game/[/url]

Um, what?

how the fuck do you blow $2600 on a carnival game?

$2600 aint much of a life savings...

that's it? that's his life savings?

Stupid. Every carnival game is rigged. I thought everyone learned this when they were about 7.

I think the fact that this guy doesn't have much of a life savings may be due to the fact that he doesn't seem to make the best decisions.

look at this fucker [quote][IMG]http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4077/4858119409_b044274cca_o.jpg[/IMG][/quote] his smile almost want to make me throw money at him so he leaves me alone :tinfoil:

thats a pretty dope banana though

[QUOTE=JCDentonUNATCO;40472053]Stupid. Every carnival game is rigged. I thought everyone learned this when they were about 7.[/QUOTE] How does one rig a bucket?

After watching the video, I'm not really surprised. Dude certainly doesn't look like someone who's responsible with money. Also, that banana is a lot bigger than I thought it was (but not big enough).

Sounds like the last in a very, very long series of shitty financial decisions. He would have been better off investing in lottery tickets. That banana is pretty fuckin dope, though.

I love how the banana has the most smug, condescending face.

Should I change the image in the op to this one? [IMG]http://cbsboston.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/carnival.jpg?w=300[/IMG]

[QUOTE=.FLAP.JACK.DAN.;40472070]How does one rig a bucket?[/QUOTE] You give it to a carnie, that's how.

I really want that fucking banana, yo.

[QUOTE=Griffster26;40472161]Should I change the image in the op to this one? [IMG]http://cbsboston.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/carnival.jpg?w=300[/IMG][/QUOTE] did he win or get it out of petty

[QUOTE=Pretty Obscure;40472230]I really want that fucking banana, yo.[/QUOTE] Closest I can get bro: [url]http://www.bigplush.com/giant-stuffed-rasta-banana-choose-from-3-sizes-66-inch-48-inch-and-32-inch-plain-with-no-words-and-no-imprinting-jamaican-dreadlock-rastafarian-banana/[/url]

[QUOTE=.FLAP.JACK.DAN.;40472070]How does one rig a bucket?[/QUOTE] The bottom. It's extra-bouncy so that the ball will bounce right out.

[QUOTE=valkery;40472259]Closest I can get bro: [url]http://www.bigplush.com/giant-stuffed-rasta-banana-choose-from-3-sizes-66-inch-48-inch-and-32-inch-plain-with-no-words-and-no-imprinting-jamaican-dreadlock-rastafarian-banana/[/url][/QUOTE] That's horrifying.

I was sympathetic till I read the part about how after he lost $300(bad enough) he went home to get over $2000 more to bring back to the carnival. There's no way you should even be carrying $300 in a carnival, forget about going home to get more! What the fuck is wrong with you? Why did you take $300 to a carnival?

[QUOTE=.FLAP.JACK.DAN.;40472070]How does one rig a bucket?[/QUOTE] Wouldn't be too hard. Assuming it's a simple open bucket, there are two stages. The first is to pick a relatively shallow form of bucket in a colour that will blend well with its surrounds, to make identifying it as a shorter height bucket far more difficult for your victims. You would then have to ensure that the bucket is installed on a platform that is absolutely solid and reflects as much incoming force as possible at the base of the bucket. This is for the benefit of stage 2. Stage 2 simply requires that whatever balls are being used with the bucket are of a material that is significantly bouncy enough but solid enough that in the hands of your victim has an aire of solidarity to it, to avoid arousing suspicion. A rubber core or even rubber lined hollow core would be a good choice. The combination of these two stages results in a setup that feels authentic and not at all unlikely to succeed, however with the bucket conditions of stage one combined with the extreme bouncy qualities of stage two's ball, you have a scenario in which the victim is likely to never succeed, but feels 100% that the conditions are in their favour and thus must try again because it was surely a one-time failure. Stage 3, is profit.

[QUOTE=cecilbdemodded;40472298]I was sympathetic till I read the part about how after he lost $300(bad enough) he went home to get over $2000 more to bring back to the carnival. There's no way you should even be carrying $300 in a carnival, forget about going home to get more! What the fuck is wrong with you? Why did you take $300 to a carnival?[/QUOTE] With that $300 alone he could've bought the Kinect he was trying for, making all this rather confusing.

He's clearly not the smartest banana on the tree.

[QUOTE=urbanmonkey;40472038]$2600 aint much of a life savings...[/QUOTE] 30 years old, not some oldie

the explanation for the bucket is a simple trick. The operator tells you it's easy, and tosses the ball from his position- which is much closer than you, and it goes in and rolls around. He [i]leaves that ball in there[/i], which means when you throw your 'practice' shot, your ball will likely smack that ball and that pads the blow, preventing it from bouncing out. When you pay, he takes both balls out and hands them to you to toss, at which point you're completely exposed to the back of the barrel. It doesn't even have to be a super bouncy surface, usually a hard one does the trick because the heavy duty wiffle balls they usually give you are springy as hell.

every year my friends and i go to the carnival, my friend uses up $20 trying to get that fucking banana. We've been going for the past four years.

[QUOTE=Ninja Gnome;40472440]every year my friends and i go to the carnival, my friend uses up $20 trying to get that fucking banana. We've been going for the past four years.[/QUOTE] Avatar fits

Carnival games are so stupid and diminutive. I'd rather do something that's intellectually stimulating and not a complete waste of time, like posting my contrarian opinions on Facepunch.

reminds me of a tumblr post [t]http://i.imgur.com/MkpwW8A.jpg[/t]