Move over, Leslie Jordan.
San Francisco Supervisor Scott Wiener foiled a would be mugging during the holidays with the kind of quick thinking that has made him the city’s most respected openly gay elected representative. Walking to the subway from his Castro District home, he found himself surrounded by a woman and two large men as he pulled out his iPhone to check his messages.
The woman swiped the phone from his hand, as the men stood by, menacing, and demanded five hundred bucks for its return. Wiener managed to negotiate the price to $200, and then led them to the nearby Wells Fargo ATM, where the perpetrators were caught on security camera. After a bank guard gave chase, the rather clueless female bandit was apprehended by police.
Wiener, who is running for California State Senate, downplayed his role in outmaneuvering the thieves. “It’s not a pleasant situation to go through. This is the first time in my life that I’ve been victimized like this, but I wanted to get my phone back, and I wanted to get them on video,” he said.
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Wiener might not have been the best target. Not only is he known for his smarts, but at 6’5, he does not fit the profile of a vulnerable victim.
The Supe was honored in this year’s Queerties for his courage in publicly announcing that he take Truvada, the PrEP pill, making him one of the best known gay leaders to do so and a role model everywhere.
Sluggo2007
“noting the two men remain on the lamb.” It’s LAM, not LAMB, stupid!!!!
avesraggiana
Not, “On the lamb” but, “On the LAM”. Do you guys at QUEERTY need a few more freelance editors to catch the many egregious mistakes of your freelance writers? Because you certainly need them.
Glücklich
Good. SFPD catches one crook when she’s handed to them on a silver platter by a city supervisor.
SFPD’s got a NASTY job with city bosses and constituents who are hardly supportive. It would be nice if they were given – and acted on – the authority and support to deal with, I dunno, car break-ins, thievery, Bayview-Hunter’s Point, and the army of extras from “The Walking Dead” all over downtown and GGP.
Glücklich
I wanted to add I’ve met Supervisor Wiener a couple of times at museum things and were it not for the political thing (i.e. gladhanding and never giving a straight answer) he’d be just (one of) my type(s). Lanky, pale, bearded, all leg. He’s very good-looking.
Former mayor and current Lt. Governor Newsom is also attractive but much too slick and very gladhand-y.
GayEGO
Great news but not surprising as we are generally smarter, as we have had to do a lot more thinking about life, liberty, and happiness than these perpetrators have had to do.
L Streeter
Ah, the grammar police strike again! Don’t you have anything better to do with your time? Maybe it was just a typo, have you never made a mistake? You could have just pointed out the error without being nasty about it. Either way, I’d rather be “stupid” than a petty, picky insufferable bitch.
Luis H. Lopez
We are smarter than homophones and thugs bravo !
joeyty
@Sluggo2007: LOL. I swear, Queerty pulls its staff out of grammar school.
Glücklich
@Glücklich:
Have to give a shout-out to San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo, another hot local pol.
http://www.sanjoseca.gov/mayor
avesraggiana
@Glücklich: Oh, daddy…you’re right!