Google Nexus 4 Prototype Lost In a Bar

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A little over a year ago, an iPhone 4s prototype walked into a San Francisco bar, prompting acontroversial manhunt (http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-20099899-37/apple-loses-another-unreleased-iphone-exclusive/) by a now-deceased (http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-57504198-37/the-lost-prototype-iphone-a-year-later-can-apple-keep-a-secret/) Apple investigator and the SFPD. Now, Wired reports that a Nexus 4 prototype walked into a San Francisco bar last month (http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/10/drinking-establishment-check-highly-anticipated-mobile-phone-release-check-lost-phone-check), prompting Google to sic its security team on 'Sudsy,' a San Francisco bartender who notified Google that he'd found their phone, which was slated to make its debut at a since-cancelled (http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/10/google-postpones-monday-new-york-android-event-on-hurricane-concerns/) Android event on Oct. 29. When the 'Google Police' showed up at the bar, Sudsy's co-worker sent the 'desperate' Google investigator on a wild goose chase which landed him in an under-siege SFPD Station (http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2012/09/21/protesters-confront-officers-vandalize-station-after-sf-mission-police-shooting/), from which he and Sudsy's lawyer had to be escorted out of under the watch of police in full riot gear with automatic weapons so the pair could arrange a 1 a.m. pickup of the phone."

http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/10/28/0528242/google-nexus-4-prototype-lost-in-a-bar