Weird BUT true

A would-be California thief struck out trying to do some Baskin-Robbin’.

The man ordered an icecream cone on Wednesday at a Santa Rosa Baskin-Robbins, got the cone, drew a gun and announced a holdup, cops said.

When no one handed over money, he reached into an open cash register, but an employee slammed the drawer on his hand.

He fled without money or his cone, police said.

A Kentucky driver without a spare tire stuck a furniture-moving dolly into his car’s wheel well to reach a repair shop.

“Only in Pike County,” deadpanned a witness who posted a video of the juryrigged vehicle.

Maybe they should call Baltimore the “lucky” Charm City!

A resident hit a $50,000 lottery jackpot recently with a “Power 5” scratchticket, after winning $10,000 last summer on the same game.

“I’ve won $50 and $75 on this one a couple of times, so it’s been lucky for me,” she told Maryland Lottery officials.

A hapless robber in Canada tried to hold up a motel armed with . . . a projection screen.

Surveillance video shows the masked man, armed with a long cylindrical tube, demanding money from a motel desk clerk in North Battleford, Saskatchewan, on Tuesday, officials said.

When the clerk refused, he ran off with the oldschool projector screen that could have come from a 1980s classroom.

The South lost again, even in the Great White North.

A construction worker in Hamilton, Ontario, lost his job after flying a Confederate battle flag at a job site.

Keith Lipiec posed for pictures with the controversial flag, saying he’s not racist — that he did it simply for “sh-ts and giggles.”

Employers with the Yoke Group didn’t find it funny and fired Lipiec this week.