De website 1Up heeft een drie pagina tellend artikel met de titel: The Village of the Banned: The Worst Excuses From Xbox Live's Banished online gezet, en hier gaan ze dieper in op de excuus verhalen van mensen die gebanned worden van het Xbox Live Netwerk. Deze zijn soms echt hilarisch, van smeken tot dreigen en totale ontkenning. Neem er even de tijd voor om het door te lezen want het is echt leuke materie.

It Wasn't Me

How many times have you loaned your car to a friend, only to have him use it to rob a bunch of banks while wearing a mask that looks remarkably similar to your face -- too many times to count, probably. And then when the police come knocking at your door to ask you about some crimes, you say, "No, it was my friend wearing a mask that looks just like me." Then the cops are like "Whoa, sorry to bother you!" and they leave. That sort of thing shows up a lot on the Xbox Live Support forums. People claim that they left their Xbox unattended or let a friend play for a while, and in that time said friend utterly and completely committed every single bannable infraction

The "It Wasn't Me" gets on the forum, pleading with the moderators to unban them because it wasn't their fault; they had a sleepover and they invited this kid they hardly knew and it turns out he sneaks onto people's accounts and gets them banned, and also he peed in the bed and broke the cookie jar. These unlikely stories mostly fall into the Lying Liars category, but they could conceivably be true. Unlikely, but possible. In these cases, the moderators' hands are tied: an infraction is an infraction and they have no choice but to ban the account. Beyond that, the matter is between the person who committed the violation and the person who owns the account. Thankfully, the likelihood of these stories being true is probably about ten-thousand to one, so it's really not all that upsetting. If you invite a kid you hardly know to play your Xbox and pee in your bed, you need to watch him like a hawk.