This robber should resolve to be less lazy in the New Year.

A thief brandishing a gun has been rolling up to fast-food drive-thrus in Southern California.

But employees at two eateries have thwarted the robber by shutting the windows and ducking.

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How’s this for a jolt!

Vultures have caused so much damage to the roof of City Hall in DeLand, Fla., that officials spent $11,000 to install a system that non-lethally shocks the scavenging meat-eaters when they touch down.

Because the aggressive avians are a federally protected species, they can’t be hunted, shot — or electrocuted — without permission.

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Who needs Times Square?

In Flagstaff, Ariz., the folks at the Weatherford Hotel ring in the New Year with a 6-foot-tall, 70-pound, LED-lighted aluminum pine cone.

The cone drops twice: once at 10 p.m., the same moment the ball drops in Manhattan, and again at midnight Arizona time.

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She’s a retailer’s worst nightmare.

A British mom went a year without shopping for anything “unnecessary,” borrowing clothes from friends and making her own Christmas presents for her husband and teenage daughter.

Bethan Brunell, 34, dug into her own pocket only for food, fuel and toiletries.

After also losing 42 pounds, she splurged and bought herself a pair of new jeans.

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We guess they could see it coming.

Psychics and astrologers in Romania are now real pros.

The government has listed them as an officially recognized profession, along with butlers, embalmers and driving instructors.