Google Nexus 4 Prototype Lost In a Bar

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."

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Re:Google Police

[beelsebob]

Idiot assumes that someone posting within the first minute on the world's most popular tech news web site must have had something to do with the article... Believe it or not, people who disagree with you are not all shills.

Re:Just in case you're wondering about the riot co

[Mister Transistor]

See, this is exactly the problem when people blow a gasket when they see an "assault weapon", You take a look at a picture of a TEC-9 and say "Oohh. that is a nasty-looking weapon". It's not, it just looks that way. It looks like a military style machine gun, but isn't. It's a semi-automatic pistol that shoots the exact same 9mm rounds in the same way that the police handguns do. In fact most police use 40cal rounds that are actually larger and more deadly nowadays. So-called "assault weapons" are simply pistols with slightly larger magazines. The reason they were made and got popular is they are inexpensive to manufacture, before all the bans, restrictions, and hoopla they cost about half of what a regular handgun cost because they are made of stamped steel rather than precision machined parts. They hold about 25 rounds, while the police guns hold 18, so for the fact that it holds 7-10 more bullets than a normal looking pistol, these weapons have been vilified and unjustly singled out. This is complete nonsense. This is also why after the initial knee-jerk reaction by the anti-gun nuts to ban them, most of the bans are not being renewed or allowed to sunset. People are starting to realize these legal, semi-automatic weapons aren't really any different than conventional pistols, save a few physical features.

That said, the guy is a moron for carrying ANY gun when on probation, and he's damn lucky the cop was a good shot and quick-thinking so they are both still alive to tell the tale.