[Dave Samson]

A man in Paris almost got away with stealing several paintings from an art museum. After plotting the crime, breaking into the museum, avoiding security, sneaking out, and escaping with the goods, he was captured only two blocks away when his 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."