An Xbox 360 power brick caught fire and caused about $100,000 worth of damage to the home of a Little Rock, Arkansas gamer.

It's a sad story, and I wish the best for the victims. But we know that there's very little risk of this happening. The local fire department said that the power brick was stored on its side, and against a wall. No one deserves to have their house burned down, but the fact of the matter is that he's doing it wrong.

The local news that reported on this incident are also doing it wrong. They somehow link the Xbox and the Xbox 360 into a combined horror story, complete with a flaming (and hilarious) Xbox graphic. It's kind of like how your mom calls all of your game systems "Nintendos."

The folks at Today's THV are linking this Xbox 360 isolated incident with the original Xbox's known power cord failure problem. I don't think that they realize that this power cord recall was for the old Xbox, and not the 360. Reporter Eboné says that the victims "only first heard about the warnings only after their house nearly burned to the ground." Eboné, my dear, there are no warnings for this console's cord, other than the obvious don't put hot things in a place where they can cause a fire.

The news segment did give us gems like "gamers take playing videogames seriously, some dedicating hours to it" and hard hitting quotes like "ooh, average week? Probably several days worth." Oh, and don't you hate it when people call a game console a "game?" Idiots! A game is what you put into a game console. Don't make me come down there.

[Via Register Hardware]