Yale junior Jesse Maiman is taking US Air to court over a an X-Box that he says was stolen from his luggage. If the $1400 he insists the console was worth seems inflated, the $1 million Maiman is claiming in “non-economic distress” is actually incredible. Maiman’s sage began last December when the film studies major flew home to Cincinnati airport. Noticing the lightness of his suitcase after picking it up at the baggage claim, Maiman immediately opened it to discover that the (would be) world’s most expensive Xbox was gone.

As the blogosphere quivers with activity over another jackass on a me-mission, Maiman will have to play Wii drunk, again. Without its a less perfect avatar system and his favorite Halo 3 challengers from Moldova. As Gawker points out, it’s not just about having the best platform to play Rock Band on:

“That thing was my DVD player,” Maiman, a junior film studies major, said. He was the 2006 Madeira High co-valedictorian.

Worse than fearing a future of watching Herzog films on his laptop, Maiman is also seriously annoyed by the “unconscionable runaround” of trying to track down his precious box of fun. If only he’d had the chance to experience the real world outside of New Haven, like these two.