You shouldn't have been downvoted for that comment. According to the Wired article that broke the story (which RT apparently cut-and-pasted from without proper

You shouldn't have been downvoted for that comment. According to the Wired article that broke the story (which RT apparently cut-and-pasted from without proper attribution): https://www.wired.com/2012/10/drinking-establishment-check-highly-anticipated-mobile-phone-release-check-lost-phone-check/ https://www.wired.com/2012/10/drinking-establishment-check-h... this guy apparently was being an all-out, stereotypical SV dickhead, blatantly threatening a mere bartender (Barton) with criminal charges ("like I was in any trouble", as Barton says) -- just so he could save his own ass back at the Googleplex.