just so you know

leaving a cell phone in a bar is NOT a rare occurrence. i've mentioned before, my friends own a local pub. cell phones are left there almost daily. what gets me is; they have a STACK of credit cards people leave. some come back and get them, but lots and lots and lots don't. it would blow you away what's left there. once, someone LEFT AN ANCHOR on a barstool (by mistake).

thankfully, if a staff member or even the cleaning crew finds a lost item, it WILL be kept for return to the owner. i can personally attest to that.

moral of the story, don't go drinking unless you're nude and unencumbered with ANY item except for a wad of cash

For Apple, Lost iPhone Is a Big Deal

By MIGUEL HELFT and NICK BILTON

For anyone who has ever lost a cellphone, remember this: it could be worse. You could be the person who left his phone in a bar in California. And it wasn’t just any phone; it was a supersecret version of the next iPhone. That model is not expected to be formally unveiled for a couple of months.

For the people at Apple, it must be like a bad version of the guy walks into a bar joke.

The company is known as the most secretive in Silicon Valley, and leaks are rare. But after the phone prototype was left in a bar in the Silicon Valley town of Redwood City, photos of the device began appearing over the weekend in technology blogs, sparking a frenzy of hype among the Apple-obsessed.........