Fat Mike's iPhone Stolen In Buenos Aires

Fat Mike probably won't pull his iPhone out and start texting people again the next time he's in Argentina.

The NOFX singer/bassist was robbed on Monday (March 1) morning when walking through the streets of Argentina's largest city. He wasn't hurt and he actually finds the thief's tactics pretty funny.

"If there ever was a good way to get mugged, I found it. Yeah, No one wants to get robbed, but if you do, I can't think of a better way," he wrote in a MySpace blog entry on Tuesday (March 2).

Mike (real name Michael Burkett) says he was trying to find a bar and had stopped to text someone when a cyclist accidentally — or so he thought — hit Mike's iPhone out of his hand.

"Wait a second, he doesn't stop and my I-phone isn't on the ground," he wrote. "I look to my right and there he is, holding my phone (which has a fuck load of pictures that I don't really want made public) with his right hand and making a pretty fast getaway. Wow! I've been robbed!

"I kind of laugh and think, pretty sneaky. What a fucking great way to get robbed. No violence, no trauma, no chance I'm gonna run after him. Pretty sweet really. I also had a few hundred bucks in the phone case, but I would rather lose that then get held up at gunpoint or bashed in the head with a pipe. So even though I lost, I really kind of won. South America ain't such a bad place after all."

But unless the thief can crack the password on Mike's phone, he's not going to be able to use it.

"Ps. I had a passcode lock on my phone so you didn't get shit mother fucker! You do get points for style though. I was impressed."

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