We know that it is illegal to possess a certain kind of drugs, but what about prototype smartphones? I guess those are also illegal as Jamin Barton, also known as “Sudsy” from the 500 club in San Francisco’s Mission District found out. He discovered a prototype for the now announced LG Nexus 4 smartphone at the bar which was left behind by a Google employee, where the handset remained locked and did not have a SIM card, hence Barton could no locate the owner. He then showed off the Nexus 4 prototype to a regular customer who hailed from the tech industry, where it was swiftly identified to be the upcoming Nexus 4. The customer then contacted Google HQ on behalf of Sudsy.
The next day, Barton heard from the patron who sounded rather all shook up after dealing with Google. Barton recalled, “Dave sort of freaked out. [He said] ‘Google lost a phone. You just got a guy fired…The Google police are coming. I probably shouldn’t have shown it to him. But I did. He didn’t work for Google, but Google had him pretty worked up. They told him he could be an accessory or something.”
That’s kind of sad, don’t you think so? Why do prototype phones get left behind in bars? Why not at a restaurant, in a house of worship, or at the supermarket?