(credit: San Francisco Bicycle Coalition)

Turns out, if your phone gets stolen, you might be able to negotiate with your mugger. At least that’s a strategy that worked for San Francisco Supervisor Scott Wiener last Friday night as dusk was falling around 5:30 pm.

The local politician told Ars that he was walking down 16^th St. from his home in the Castro towards a nearby BART station. He was waiting for a red light at 16^th and Valencia when he stopped to take his iPhone out of his pocket to check his calendar for a brief moment. All of a sudden, a woman, flanked by two men appeared.

“She grabbed the phone out of my hand,” he said.