Lars Andreas Bjercke learned a tough lesson about how tricky his neighborhood fox gang can be when one of the local thugs of the group mugged him in the middle of the street.

Ok, that's not actually what happened. Bjercke lost his phone to the fox after downloading a rabbit-sound-making app, which enticed the fox into his yard. Bjercke placed the squawking phone in the middle of the street, and the fox warily approached it.

Bjercke was pretty shocked when the fox snatched the phone in his mouth and ran away into the woods to enjoy his new toy.

From LiveLeak:

Lars then later called the phone and, surprisingly, the fox answered.

"There was a crackling sound and some noise," Lars told Verdens Gang.

The next day, Lars's friend wondered why he had sent him the odd text message. The message was in strange letters and numbers. Lars knew that the sender was the fox.

"I FRY o a0ab 34348tu åaugjoi zølbmosdji jsøg ijio sjiw," it said in the message.

Lars still has not found his phone. He has seen the fox lurking around, but it obviously had dumped it somewhere.

See the thief in action in the video below: