Step right up, folks!

Man loses life savings playing a carnival game...

and he didn't even win.

I am sure there are casinos all over the country calling him up to offer him RFB.


wait, that was his LIFE SAVINGS? what grown adult person's life savings total $2600?

Guess he should have just went to his local walmart and picked up the "kinect" he was hoping to win.

Carnivals from their very start have had "shaddy" side games for folks to play. Like they say "one is born every minute"!

Not sure the plastic tubs work like the old "apple baskets" but the principal is the same.
They typically have a ball or 2 lying in the bottom of the basket that you don't really notice when you are getting the "free throws". Those other balls stop the "bounce" that happens when no balls are in the basket. Of course, when you pay to play he grabs the other ball or 2 from the basket and hands them to you and you don't even notice!

I wonder if I could get this guy to take "hundred to one" odds with me on the "saturday night live spoof" of "I AM THINKING OF A COLOR" When of course they would guess "YELLOW" you claim" oh you are so close, I was thinking of an "off yellow"!

Of course John Belushi never did figure out how Bill Murray kept fooling him! Miss the old favorites from that show. They were funny

Fortunately this is the over litigious U-Sue 'em-A. He will get all his money back plus pain and suffering along with a token amount for public humiliation. Of course the real winner will be the lawyer that represents him....Vultures all of them. (I will edit that last part out soon before my wife sees it.)

When I was in high school there was a carnival game where you were given five circular metal discs and you had to drop them on a large red circle and cover all of the circle up. You were not allowed to slide them once they were down. I was down to dropping the last disc and had dropped the other four perfectly. I now know why the discs were metal. I could sense as I dropped it, there was a magnetic resistance that altered the drop slightly. If I was doing it today I would have spoken up and called the guy on it. Unfortunately I didn't say a thing.

At Six Flags Magic Mountain, many many years ago they have a carnival booth section. We had three guys and three girls. One of the girls started on a game where you throw quarters on a relatively flat dish to win a huge stuffed animal. Because I am tall, I was able to lean much further forward. I landed it on the second toss and she was given a big pink panther. Because we had two other women without stuffed animals, we proceeded to spend about fifty dollars before we were able to win two more stuffed animals.

I'm a glass is half full kind a guy because hey he now is the owner of a giant dread-locked stuffed banana.
Does he wheel his banana all over town? I mean "don't leave home without out", but c'mon guy.

He should have tried to win a bro/manzier instead.

So the guy says for once he was that sucker?????????? I think he's been a sucker
numerous times...........look at all the bad tattoos he got!!!!!

The subject game can be rigged, but it probably wasn't, . . . because it is almost impossible to get a ball to stay in the basket anyway.
Ref: Carnival Games

However, DonDiego can advise the avaricious player how to win prizes at those roll-a-ball down a slanted alley into holes to move a camel, or horse, or whatever-it-is down a racetrack.
One is not, in fact, playing against the house; one is playing against the other players. The value of the prize is proportional to the number of players.
So, the trick is to wait until players one can beat are playing. By playing this game in the basement of the Excalibur Hotel and Casino DonDiego once won a $50-or-$60 stuffed Gorilla-With-A-Baby for $1. His competitors comprised several very small children whose parents let them play without help and even two infants whose parents had to hold them upright seated at the end of the alley.
WARNING: DO NOT PLAY THIS GAME AGAINST ANY MALE PERSON BETWEEN THE AGE OF EIGHT AND TWENTY-FOUR, ESPECIALLY IF THEY ARE YOUTHS ACCOMPANIED BY ADORING GIRLFRIENDS. YOU WILL LOSE.

Do note that the 'Don Diego Strategy' can used successfully in other competitions as well.....like Poker and Arm Wrestling.

Remember that old saying, "a fool and his money are soon parted"