A Google Employee Walks Into a Bar

[Onkel Neal]

Seriously? This has to be a promotional stunt.

Stop me if you've heard this one before.

An employee of one of the most powerful and influential tech giants in the world walks into a bar. The employee presumably begins to partake in adult refreshments and happens to be carrying an unreleased prototype of a highly anticipated handset that hopes to tip the competitive scales in the smartphone market. Said employee forgets said prototype at said bar, and said tech giant scrambles to recover its prototype, lest it fall into the wrong hands. Pandemonium ensues.

If you thought I was referring to Apple (NAS: AAPL) and its infamous iPhone 4 prototype that was lost in a Redwood City, Calif., bar and subsequently found its way into the hands of Gizmodo, in arguably the highest-profile tech scoop of 2010 -- then you'd be sorely mistaken. Apple even reportedly lost another one the following year, but again, we're not talking about the Mac maker. In fact, I'm referring to none other than Apple's mobile archenemy, Google (NAS: GOOG) .

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