<p>Depends, was it an xbox original or Xbox 360. If it’s the former, consider it a free trip to the dump.</p>
<p>Hahaha, true that. :)</p>
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<p>You do not understand responsibility.</p>
<p>What an unwarranted and blanketed assumption.</p>
<p>She invited people over. She’s got an obligation to make sure everything is safe and sound. If her “friends” are inviting other “friends” that are illegit, well then she shouldn’t be inviting her friends to begin with. She’s at fault. She needs to replace it.</p>
<p>As far as blaming OP for having her stuff in the living room; that HARDLY matters. Just as an example, about three weeks ago my studio apartment was broken into and my laptop was stolen; nothing else. A very, very long story short… this stupid, immature chick that lives upstairs had her gangstered-out friends over that night (like every weekend), and they broke into my place. The laptop magically reappeared the next morning on the stairs, and because the perps called the cops while they were inside MY place (STUPID??) I have names and know they were associated with that chick upstairs. SHE’S responsible… and is currently being evicted. Had I lost anything, I could have prosecuted her if I couldn’t find the perps that did it.</p>
<p>Sorry, but a real friend would demonstrate some responsibility for what happened. She’s not a very good one, at best.</p>
<p>Yeah, I kinda do mean it. If it was a roommate I really trusted then that’s a different story.</p>
<p>Thankfully my mother’s house is a 25 minute drive from my school, and my dad’s is a 15-20 minute subway ride away.</p>
<p>Roomie owes you a new Xbox…</p>
<p>Personally, if she said that she was hosting a party, I would automatically lock all my valuables into my room.</p>
<p>People, there’s no “cost” for small claims court. </p>
<p>Here’s what you need to do: Call the cops. (The regular phone number, not 911) Tell them you’d like to file a theft report. Show pictures of the Xbox, maybe the box and manual, receipts. Explain the situation in full detail. You left. Roommate had a party. One of her guests stole your Xbox.</p>
<p>The report is what you want, he’s not going to go to the streets and start beating up scumbags screaming “Give me her Xbox!” </p>
<p>With the report in hand, tell her face to face, “This is my warning. I’m asking you nicely, to replace my Xbox and take responsibility.” and hand her a letter you wrote, informing her of the situation, the police report and that you intend to pursue legal action if a compromise isn’t met. </p>
<p>She’ll know you’re serious because it’s certified mail even though you’re handing it to her. This results in two things: 1) You pursued legal action from the police by filing a report. 2) You gave her a written documented warning that you would pursue legal action. </p>
<p>If she still plays hardball, take her to small claims and look for new roommates. Next time, they can buy their own Xbox for the living room. </p>
<p>This is 100% her fault, and she’s the type of college person I hate. Her piece of crap ****** friends are #1 to her right now.</p>
<p>^Good advice if it gets down to the wire.</p>
<p>This is definitely her fault. </p>
<p>Your belongings should be safe in your own home. </p>
<p>We ALWAYS put the Wiis, Xboxes, etc. away in rooms when having a party and your roommate either had the responsibility to do that or make sure sketchy people weren’t over to begin with.</p>
<p>What, are you supposed to put the microwave away when you leave? The T.V.? Paintings on the walls? Etc.</p>
<p>I suppose this is a lesson the hard way that you cannot trust your roomies and in the future you will have to keep all of your items to yourself (maybe take the T.V. back haha).</p>
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<p>Who said I was blaming the victim? The roommate is completely at fault here, but that’s not to say that more precautions shouldn’t be taken with valuable items. Even when I lived in the dorms, RAs always told residents not to leave valuable items out in the open, since even if you trust your roommate, you have no reason to trust their friends. Maybe you shouldn’t infer so much.</p>
<p>If I wanted to blame the victim, I would have said it’s the OP’s fault for leaving the stuff out, but I didn’t.</p>
<p>East: I’m glad that you don’t blame the OP. The Op’s property was inside the apartment, not in the hallway or any other public place, as she explained the property was in the living room.</p>
<p>I know several kids that trust their roommates and have done the same that the OP and the other roommates respect and are grateful of the kindness of the roommate in lending the equipment for all roommates to use.</p>
<p>Here, the OP did not make any mistake in trusting her allegedly peers, college students and roommates. The peers are irresponsible, that is something different not the OP’s mistake.</p>
<p>The OP did not make any mistake (“Well there’s your first mistake”) in sharing with the roommates the entertainment gears. </p>
<p>It is a shame that there are people irresponsible, those are the ones that deserve to be called as the ones that did the “mistake” of crossing the boundaries of responsibility, trust and decency!
The OP did not do anything wrong!</p>