Douchey Yale kid sues for $1 mil over lost Xbox

I actually don’t know that this kid is douchey and given his penchant for litigation, let’s just pretend he’s awesome and well-endowed, shall we? Anyway he’s suing US Airways for losing his modded Xbox 360 for $1 million.

A Yale University student from Ohio has filed a lawsuit seeking $1 million from US Airways for a video game console he says was taken from his luggage.

Twenty-one-year-old Jesse Maiman alleges that during a flight from New Haven, Conn., to Cincinnati in December, his Xbox 360 with a specialized hard drive disappeared from his luggage.

Maiman says he got what he called “an unconscionable run-around” from the airline. He’s asking $1,700 for the loss of the gaming system and for the maximum damages allowable, or $1 million.

Maiman filed the suit Monday in Hamilton County Common Pleas Court.

A US Airways spokeswoman said the airline was unaware of the suit but noted that the government limits liability for lost luggage to $3,300 per bag.

I play my Xbox a fair amount. But I can honestly say that unless my Xbox had kiddie porn on it and I was worried about it leaking out (I’m saying my Xbox does but I’m also not saying it doesn’t), I probably wouldn’t valuate it at $1 million. I mean it’d be kind of a bummer to lose my Xbox and I’m all for really sticking it to the airlines for all the horsecrap they do to us like not giving me free dinners and making me sit next to fat people and smelly people and not automatically upgrading me to first class for being awesome and not having hot flight attendants and being a part of the 9/11 conspiracy and allowing people to joke about airplane peanuts and that time that security guard gave my chick a cavity search but then I found out he was just a guy wearing a t-shirt that said “Female Body Inspector”…yeah okay, go ahead and stick it to US Airways, sir. They’ve had it coming.

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