(And you thought I didn't have De Gaulle to send this to you!)

A thief in Paris planned to steal some paintings from the Louvre.
After carefully planning, he got past security, stole the paintings
and made it safely to his van.
However, 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:
"Monsieur, that's the reason I stole the paintings. I had no Monet to
buy Degas to make the Van Gogh."