People lose their phones all the time. And in general, it’s not a newsworthy event, unless of course you’re a celebrity, politician, CIA operative — or a Gizmodo editor.

That’s right, it’s the same site that outted an Apple engineer for losing the iPhone 4 prototype in a bar about five months ago. Gizmodo made him famous, turning him into the biggest doofus on the webs, before buying the ill-gotten device and dissecting it for all the internet to see. (It was that act that subsequently attracted the attention of Cupertino as well as law enforcement authorities.) Now Gizmodo editor Brian Lam wound up losing his own iPhone 4 while dining out in a restaurant.

The irony of this is juicy, though the details aren’t very exciting: A lady asked for a chair, and Lam obliged. This was the same lady that wound up turning in the editor’s iPhone when he lost it. So he tweeted about the incident (with the hashtag “#karma”) — and a maelstrom of ridiculing comments hit him in response. No doubt shocked, Lam pulled his tweets from public view.

Before he yanked it though, Daring Fireball’s John Gruber got a screenshot of the Tweet.

Interesting how an incident that propelled an insane amount of traffic to the site has seemingly resulted in a backlash now. Karma, indeed.

Via: Daring Fireball

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