Two muggers attempting to rob a newspaper delivery van last week apparently found nothing of value inside the vehicle, the San Francisco Examiner reports today. The deliveryman was doing his early morning paper deliveries near the intersection of Lombard and Powell Streets in North Beach when a white van blocked him and two suspects hopped out for a old-fashioned stagecoach-style robbery.

The two suspects walked up to the delivery driver's window and grabbed his cellphone, asking whether or not it was an iPhone. When the deliveryman said that it was not a coveted Apple product, the suspect tossed the phone back in the car and the pair demanded cash, which delivery drivers don't keep on them. When the suspects became visibly frustrated, the deliveryman temporarily abandoned his paper route and sped off in the direction of SFPD's Central Station, where he reported the attempted crime.

Police don't reveal victim names in these cases so it is unclear which local newspaper the driver worked for, but as the Examiner gleefully reports, it must have been that other major local paper because their own circulation department (which also handles the Guardian and SF Weekly) hadn't heard of any newspaper van stickups.

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[SFEx]