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. “It’s not possible that it wasn’t rigged,” said Gribbohm. The 30-year-old from Epsom says he kept trying to win back his money by going double or nothing.
He dropped $300 in just a few minutes, then says he went home to get $2,300 more and soon lost all of that as well. “You just get caught up in the whole ‘I’ve got to win my money back.’” Fiesta Shows says the game is run by an independent contractor who has worked for Fiesta for years. Fiesta says it is interviewing the contractor to “get to the bottom of what happened” and the game is not being set up at an upcoming carnival. They’ve been with us quite a while,” said Fiesta Vice President John Flynn. “First I ever heard of anything like that.”
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Flynn said he did not know the name of the contractor off hand, and said it was “pretty next to impossible” to lose such a large amount of money at the game. Henry says he went back the next day to complain, and the man running the game gave him back $600. Henry left with the banana and the cash, and filed a report with the Manchester Police Department. Manchester Police Lieutenant Maureen Tessier says the department is investigating to determine if there was any fraud. Gribbohm says he is considering a lawsuit. “For once in my life I happened to become that sucker,” said Gribbohm. “It was foolish for putting up my life savings.”
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