Admit it, we've all thought about committing the perfect heist: that one smooth score where a bit of planning and guts delivers more money than most people make in a lifetime.
Some people though, they actually go through with their plan — stealing a load of diamonds, speeding on Bonnie and Clyde car chases, or military customs clerks smuggling millions home from war.
The following heists proceed from those requiring the least amount of chutzpah to the one requiring more guts than we can imagine.
Chinese banker steals money, buys lottery tickets, loses money.
No kidding.
Called the Agriculture Bank Heist, a banker stole a few hundred thousand at first, intending to buy lottery tickets and replace the money. Unbelievably, his logic worked out the first time.
Not the second or the third try, which totaled to about $7 million.
He was arrested and thrown in jail, along with his accomplice.
Robbers plan massive shootout and speedboat chase for Millennium Dome raid, but ...
Police had them monitored from almost start to finish.
Immediately they set upon a well fortified display case with nail guns and sledge hammers. Just as they were about to gain entry to the "Millennium Star," a 203-carat diamond worth a quarter billion, agents pounced.
No shots fired, everyone arrested — "12 inches from payday," as the robbers would describe later, "It would have been a blinding Christmas."
Con men take art from the Gardner Museum.
A couple fellows dressed as Boston police officers gained entry, against museum rules, to the Gardner Museum after hours in 1990.
They subdued the guards, tied them up, and promptly headed for the priceless paintings.
They stole Rembrandt, Manet, and Vermeer pieces of art. The statute of limitation for robbery is up, yet no one has admitted the crime.
It remains one of the more mysterious crimes in history, and frames where the artwork was still sit empty on the wall.
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