Wednesday, May 1, 2013
Greetings fellow Bizarros:Before you dismiss the deliberate "dumbing down" of America as a right wing conspiracy theory, you had better pay serious attention to today's story.
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 was attempting to win an Xbox Kinect at the Manchester carnival when things went awry. The 30-year-old 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, 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 before dropping $2,600, says he is considering a lawsuit.
"For once in my life I happened to become the sucker," Gribbohm said.
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Email Lewis *-- Treed truck a mystery to investigators --*SHERWOOD, Ore. - Emergency responders in Oregon said they are baffled as to how a pickup truck ended up wedged about 10 feet up in a tree near the highway. Tualatin Valley Fire & Rescue personnel said the truck was reported Sunday morning in a tree off Highway 99W near Sherwood, KPTV, Portland, Ore., reported Monday. Investigators said there were no occupants at the scene and no one suspected to have been involved in the crash turned up at Providence Newberg hospital. Sensors did not pick up any heat signatures, indicating the truck had been unoccupied in the tree for some time. The incident is being investigated.
*-- 40,000-piece jigsaw puzzle falls, breaks into pieces --*WEYMOUTH, England - A British jigsaw puzzle maker is seeking volunteers to help him reassemble a record 40,000-piece puzzle he made to commemorate the queen's Diamond Jubilee. Dave Evens, 60, said he had just completed the 19 1/2-by-8-foot puzzle the day before it fell to the ground and broke into pieces when he was distracted at his Weymouth, England, workshop by a person who had asked him for directions, The Mirror reported Monday. The "absolute disaster," as it was described by Evens' wife, Margaret, was caught on a webcam. Evens said he is seeking volunteers to help him reassemble the plywood puzzle, a montage of photos from Queen Elizabeth's Diamond Jubilee, before it is sent to the queen's Sandringham House in Norfolk for display in a week. "Because it was quite solid and interlocking, parts of the puzzle are still in large sections but there must be well over 6,000 separate pieces to put back together," Evens said. Evens said he sent documentation of the puzzle to Guinness World Records prior to the fall in the hopes of it being certified as the world's largest jigsaw puzzle.
*-- READER COMMENTS --*Of course the tiger was male, otherwise there would have been 6 tigers in the restroom to 'powder their noses' -Micheal
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You're thinking of lions. Tigers are not that social.]
Perhaps Tom thought the tiger is a male because the female of the species is referred to as a tigress. -R.S.R.
Interesting that some one was attacked and killed by a beaver. But where the hell is Belarus? A long time reader, Will
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In between Belgium and Russia.]
Hello Lewis: The 'Montana man reunited with woman-hating macaw' is one the happiest stories you have told. -J T
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You just haven't been reading Bizarre News long enough.]
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