According to yesterdays police blotter for The Daily Northwestern, someone stole an Xbox 360 from a university building, replacing it with a plain old regular Xbox.

“After a May 11 event, a hall government member locked the Xbox 360 in a closet in a basement room of the residence hall, he told police. When the student returned to closet on May 22 at about 1 p.m., it was still locked, but he found a different Xbox inside.

Only the student and one other hall government officer have access to the closest, he told police.”

Could it be that this particular 360 de-evolved in a return to simpler times on Walden Pond?

Was it really an Xbox all along and the student was just hallucinating?

Is the closet some kind of technology time-machine? Could we put in an iPod Nano and get a Mini? Could we put in a cell phone and get a pager?

The answer can’t be as simple as theft. Something extraordinary is going on here, we just know it.

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