Is your Xbox 360 worth $1 million? For a 21-year-old Yale student, the answer is yes.
Jesse Maiman sued US Airways for $1 million after his tricked-out Xbox 360 console disappeared from his checked luggage, according to the Cincinnati Enquirer.
Maiman packed the Xbox console--which he says includes a specialized hard drive worth $1,000--in his suitcase for a December 17 flight between New Haven and Cincinnati. At baggage claim in Cincinnati, however, the bag was there, but the console was nowhere to be found.
The film studies major sued the airline, seeking $1,700 for the replacement of the console, and between $25,000 and $1 million for "non-economic distress."
"That thing was my DVD player," he told the paper.
A US Airways spokeswoman said the airline had not yet seen the suit, but that federal law places a $3,300 per bag limit for lost luggage compensation.
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March 11, 2009 5:52 PM
Another *&# Yale Lawyer on the way!
March 11, 2009 6:28 PM
This kid needs to get a life........
March 12, 2009 12:08 AM
Wow. I hope that's not representative of the other bright minds that inhabit the ivy league schools these days? If so, we're in trouble. Get a clue, kid.
March 12, 2009 12:24 AM
Only an absolute dummy puts any thing of value in checked luggage.
March 12, 2009 1:53 AM
The sad thing about this is,they will be a judge stupid enough to hear this case.
March 12, 2009 4:43 AM
"The sad thing about this is, (there) will be a judge stupid enough to hear this case." --Bob Fuson
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Yes--wasting more tax dollars! Of course, the precedent has been set with previous, over-inflated cases. Leave it to some opportunist to try to exploit the situation. This guy clearly has no idea of what real "non-economic distress" is like. Send him somewhere like Darfur for a month. That might change his impression.
March 12, 2009 5:13 AM
What an a--hole! What a p--sy! The makings of another lawyer .Just like that black judge who was suing that chinese cleaners for 10 million dollars because they misplaced his pants.He cost thoes poor people alot of money to defend themselves from that a--hole.There should be a law that puts all a--holes in jail,damn,that would elliminate a lot of fucking lawyers! Yale really creates them,,look at all the asshole presidents who came from yale.Bush was one of them whose rich daddy bought the grades so bush jr. could graduate.Just listening to him speak makes you wonder if he even made it through gramer school!He was also a viet nam draft dodger,what a pu-sy.
March 12, 2009 11:47 AM
Jeez! Geno! Sounds to me like your jealous because you daddy wasn't smart enough to become rich enough to even send you to a scholarly school like Yale!! You really do need to get a life! You should be so fortuate......and speaking of being a draft dodger,what was ol slick willy's credentials?
March 12, 2009 12:08 PM
Geno ever so eloquently wrote: "makes you wonder if he even made it through gramer school"
Now that's about the funniest thing I've read today!
March 12, 2009 1:44 PM
for the other Yale Alumni gramer is spelt grammar
March 12, 2009 6:58 PM
then theres going to be a genius judge that hears this case at the sepreme court
so
our courts wont be hearing murders and killers, no they will be hearing a no life xbox freak who wants a million for "non-economic distress."
thats dumb
he should just get 2000$ and end of case
March 12, 2009 11:30 PM
You realize...he got his bag, but the handlers STOLE his xBox. There should never be handlers opening bags, and any security personnel doing it should be supervised at all times. The airlines need to get their act together and nothing gets things done like the threat of losing money. That said, for this no more than a few thousand is justified, but to the airlines...the $3300 lost baggage limit doesn't apply when the bag isn't lost.
March 15, 2009 8:37 AM
Why is everybody attacking the poor guy? He is fuming mad. I would be mad too. Wouldn't you be angry? Would you just let it slide and go buy a new xbox? It had a specialized ($1000) hard drive and it doubled as his DVD player. He probably had to get a new DVD player to replace it right away. It seems his education depended on the ability to view DVD's (see next paragraph).
Also of note: He is a FILM STUDIES MAJOR. He is not a law student. Yale has more to offer than law school. It seems people who hate lawyers cannot read either. (Okay, maybe that was unfair. Maybe, you guys hate Yale and it's law school so much, that you had your blinders on. You may have just skipped over the words "film studies major" in the article.)
OT: You don't like our legal system? Do something about it. Become active in doing something to change or reform it. Stop whining and complaining and expect someone to change it for you.
March 17, 2009 6:00 PM
Amen, Randy!