Snickers ‘You’re Not You When You’re Hungry’: Henry Gribbohm

In recent weeks for our Snickers “You’re not you when you’re hungry” feature, we’ve looked to some famous faces like Christian Bale, Eric Cantona and, following the now infamous Bite-gate last week, hungry, hungry hitman, Luis Suarez.

By Eoghan Doherty

The time has now come though for us to turn to a man of the people, a lay man, a common man, an every man.

Say hello to Henry Gribbohm:

You may not know the name but you should. Henry Gribbohm hit the headlines this week after claiming that he lost all of his life savings after playing a ‘rigged’ carnival game at his local fair in Manchester, New Hampshire. Now all he has to show for it is, wait for it, a GIANT SMILING RASTAFARIAN BANANA IN DREADLOCKS.

True story. Taking his kids along to the event, this Vin Diesel-wannabe just wanted to win an Xbox Kinect for his family but things didn’t quite go according to plan as he lost over $2000 and possibly the sleeves off his t-shirt as well.

Signing up to play the imaginatively-named ‘Tubs of Fun,’ a game where the contestant, ahem, tosses their balls into a giant tub, Gribbohm ran into problems when, according to the reporter, “his balls kept popping out.”

Well, we’ve all been there at one stage or another.

Following an “easy” practise round, things became a whole lot harder when the Snickers-starved Gribbohm started playing for real, losing $300 in just a few minutes and, following what can only be described as the world’s worst banana-related brainwave, decided to split and go home to get $2300 more so he could win it all back. Genius.

As if the bonkers banana story wasn’t barmy enough, the local news report by Michael Rosenfield is full of golden fruity moments itself as he interviews our hapless victim, a man who now seems doomed to wandering the streets of New Hampshire aimlessly, Rasta-Banana and kid in tow. We’re not sure what game he won the kid in but that’s probably another story for another time.

Hang about to the very end of the report where the news anchor disingenously claims that “we’re truly sorry”  while fighting back his understandable uncontrollable laughter:

 

The sad fact of the matter is that, following a quick search on Ebay, Gribbohm could quite easily have purchased his desired Xbox Kinect for around $200 and even more depressingly, his beloved banana for $70. We’re no Einstein, but we’re almost 108% sure that those sums certainly don’t add up to anywhere near $2600.

So what now? Well, the carnival organisers Fiesta Shows are currently under investigation, the ‘rigged’ Tubs of Fun game has been pulled from the carnival for the time-being and Henry Gribbohm is still a big fruit of a man.

As you know, we here at JOE headquarters will jump at any opportunity to throw in our obligatory Simpsons clip, related or otherwise so enjoy Lisa’s own Carny encounter with the charming Spud: