Journal #7, October 12

http://www.pcworld.com/article/152173/.html?tk=rss_news
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DHL

On October 13, 2007 there was a train wreck near Duke, Texas that had 21,600 Xbox game consoles on it. Well since the train derailed all the Xboxes were lost and then Mirosoft is now suing the U.S. based cargo-delivery service DHL Express. In the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington in Seattle a complaint was filed from Microsoft and is seeking 2 million dollars in damages from DHL for the damaged Xbox consoles after the derailment. The Xbox consoles were en route from a Microsoft office in McAllen, Texas to Long Beach, California then to Hong Kong. According to the court papers the Flextronics Industrial was suppose to receive the shipment of consoles. Also in the article it talked about controversy in Colorado, when a man was reselling Xbox consoles and returning inoperable consoles to retail and online. My thoughts are that I see the reasoning behind of suing DHL for their lost property. I do not know what the contact between the two companies, but it seems that DHL was liable for the accident. I the one thing I do not like that Microsoft is suing them for 2 million dollars, because that seems a little too much to "make-up" for their loses; I think that Microsoft has plenty of money for them to ask that much money.