Irony: Gizmodo’s Brian Lam leaves phone in restaurant; grateful an honest patron turned it in

Daring Fireball’s John Gruber reports that iPhone 4-leaker Gizmodo editor “Brian Lam left his phone behind in a restaurant; now, thankful that an honest patron turned it in.”

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Gruber’s full article includes links to a screenshot, from before Lam locked his Twitter account and Google’s cache.

Full article here.

MacDailyNews Take: Obviously, his shiteous wannabe iPhone wasn’t worth stealing. There’s a selling point that Motorola ought to explore in their next ad. It’d be their first with an actual selling point.

You may have noticed that we haven’t been linking to any of Gizmodo’s stuff for some time now. This practice will continue into the foreseeable future.

We recently ran a poll that asked, “Can you trust an Apple-related report from Gizmodo?” The results, based on 4,394 responses, were as follows:

• 46.13% – No. Never.
• 21.69% – Not now, but maybe sometime in the future.
• 12.77% – Yes, but it depends on what’s in each article.
• 12.13% – Unsure.
• 7.28% – Yes, unequivocally. Gizmodo can be objective.

[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “John K.” for the heads up.]