An Apple employee’s drunken folly has taken the internet by storm while simultaneously winning this year’s Damn, I’m So Fired Award. After being carelessly left at a bar in Redwood City, an unconfirmed iPhone prototype was found cleverly disguised in the robes of a common 3GS and taken home by its sticky-fingered founder for further observation. Though theft should never be condoned…whatever man, it’s an iPhone, so finder’s keepers.

From what we can see from photos, the new model has a front-facing camera for video chat and flash for the existing back plate camera. The sleek curves that we’ve come to associate with Apple products have been shaved down for this model, leaving a product that, in my opinion, is shaped similarly to that of a Microsoft Zune or T-Mobile G1 (OOOH NO HE DIDN’T).

Though Apple has yet to publicly comment on the photos, late Monday night, Gizmodo said that it received a letter from Bruce Sewell, Apple’s senior vice president and general counsel, requesting the phone back. “It has come to our attention that Gizmodo is currently in possession of a device that belongs to Apple. This letter constitutes a formal request that you return the device to Apple,” the letter said.

So if it quacks like a duck and walks like a duck, it’s a new iPhone. But if it walks with a limp and screams like a girl, chances are it just got fired by Steve Jobs.

[Hat tip: Gizmodo]