Google Nexus 4 Prototype Lost In a Bar 200
theodp writes "A little over a year ago, an iPhone 4s prototype walked into a San Francisco bar, prompting a controversial manhunt by a now-deceased Apple investigator and the SFPD. Now, Wired reports that a Nexus 4 prototype walked into a San Francisco bar last month, 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 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, 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."
Do No Evil (Score:4, Interesting)
Unless it brings you free press. It was staged, just like the apple incidents were.
Re:Google Police (Score:2, Interesting)
Shitty bar. Guy loses something, it instantly becomes bartender's property? No lost and found box? No turning over to the police, or trying to find the owner? It's a bar after all, so, I expect people losing/forgetting stuff is a frequent occurence.
No wonder the guy didn't want the publicity and tried to spin it. As a bartender he's done.
Re:Google Police (Score:4, Interesting)
I was wondering about this last night. Why are the nerds at Google naming a product after a model of skin job? Are they running some kind of Voigt Kampff test on their clientele?