An update on my current situation.

A friend of mine came over on Saturday to look at the xbox sitting in my living room. He plugged it in with his cable and turned it on. There is no red ring of death as I previously thought so I start scratching my head in confusion as this is getting weirder. Next he goes online with it to see if there was a system ban placed on it. That cleared. The final test he ran was to check if the warranty seal was still intact which it was. So here I am even more dumbfounded on this bizarre crime. Okay, even weirder yet to my benefit, the system came with a game: Modern Warfare 2. So now I have a new game.

I later acquired my serial number from the box it came in and checked if that matched any of my roommate's cousins' xboxes and that came back negative so suspicion is cleared.

All that aside I contacted the police to file a report with them and hopefully track down my xbox. I even emailed xbox support so they can track it down and I can get it back. One more status update once I get the results of all this.