Recently a guy in Paris nearly got away with stealing several paintings from the Louvre. However, after planning the crime, breaking in, cutting out the paintings, evading security, getting out again and escaping with the goods, he was captured only two blocks away when his getaway 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."