A French man nearly got away with stealing a number of priceless paintings from the Louvre.
However, after planning the robbery and successfully getting past security, and getting in and out of the museum, he was captured only three blocks away when his Econoline van ran out of gas.
When asked how he could mastermind such a crime and then make such an obvious error, he replied, “I had no Monet to buy Degas to make the Van Gogh.”