Weird BUT true

Muggers snatched a cellphone from the hands of a San Francisco city lawmaker, who chased them down — and then started negotiations.

Supervisor Scott Wiener told the thieves he’d give them $200 for his phone, and took them to an ATM so their pictures would be captured on security cams.

Wiener got his phone back and immediately told a bank security officer, who called cops.

Wiener said it was easy to remain calm because “I deal with nasty people in City Hall.”

You’d better bring your dancing shoes and designated driver to this honkytonk.

The San Antonio ExpressNews analyzed local DWI arrests from early 2013 to this November — and crowned the Cowboy Dance Hall as the area’s top source of busts.

There were 297 arrests of impaired drivers who had downed one too many at the hoedown joint, well ahead of secondplace El Fuerte sports bar with 138.

Sheriff ’s deputies in Nevada busted a fatherand-son team that had been allegedly going around a Reno neighborhood on trash pickup days stealing Christmas gifts and cash that residents had left for their sanitation men.

“It’s an incredibly grinchy thing to do,” Deputy Jeff McCaskill said.

Deputies in Michigan got a surprise after chasing down an erratic driver.

The speed demon turned out to be a 13yearold boy taking his 8yearold sister on a joyride. They wiped out on a median in Clinton Township, but no one was hurt.

Canadian cops arrested an allegedly impaired Zamboni operator as he tried cleaning the ice during the intermission of a youth game.

Rink boards and the Zamboni itself were damaged during the boozy ice ride, according to police in Ste. Anne, Manitoba.