Top 10 Most Successful Thieves in History

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The Top 10 Most Successful Thieves in History Number 10: The Vacuum Gang Starting off the countdown of the Top 10 Most Successful Thieves in History, The Vacuum Gang. These thieves have been drilling holes and vacuuming out cash since 2006. They’ve successfully retrieved over $1 million dollars from supermarket safes across France. Number 9: Baker Street Burglary The Baker Street Burglary occurred in London in 1971. A group of thieves constructed tunnels and dug their way into the Lloyd’s bank. They got away with over $60 million dollars. The movie Bank Job starring Jason Statham is based on these brazen thieves, the 9th Most Successful Thieves in History. Number 8: Albert Spaggiari Spaggiari dug a tunnel into the vault of the bank, Societe Generale Bank. stealing over $64 million dollars in currency and jewelry. Spaggiari was eventually apprehended, however, during his trial almost like straight out of a movie he lept from the courthouse window and landed on a motorcycle escaping justice until his death. Number 7: School of Turin The 7th Most Successful Thieves in History were known as The School of Turin. In February 2003, after the bank closed, the thieves meticulously disabled all of the high-tech alarm systems. The thieves stole millions of dollars in diamonds and other precious jewels. Number 6: Colton Harris-Moore Colton is the youngest on the countdown, crash-landing his way to #6. Known as the Barefoot Bandit because of the chalk footprints that have been found at the scene of his crimes. He has over 100 robberies on his record and has stolen dozens of planes and powerboats. The curious thing is no one knows when or how Colton learned to fly a plane. Number 5: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum In 1990, 2 men disguised as police officers gained access to the museum where they stole $500 million dollars in artwork. The museum has left up the empty frames and are offering a large reward for their return. The thieves have never been apprehended. Number 4: Paris Museum of Modern Art This one isn’t as much a matter of intelligence or skill as it is luck. The thief smashed a window at the museum, walked in, took over $200 million dollars in artwork, and then walked out. The alarm wasn’t functioning properly. There was nothing stopping this thief. Identity is still unknown and artwork is still missing. Number 3: Carl Gugasian Carl’s career spanned 30 years netting him over $2 million dollars, Carl would burst into banks before the start of the weekend, at closing time. Carl was caught and is serving a 17 year prison sentence for 5 bank robberies because there was no evidence from the other 45 armed robberies he had admitted too! Number 2: The Pink Panthers Coming in at #2 are The Pink Panthers. Over 200 members worldwide they are flashy, wear intricate disguises, drive getaway speed boats, have crashed a pair of limos into a storefront grabbing handfuls of jewelry, and have committed dozens more over-the-top offenses. They have made off with almost $1 billion dollars--and counting in total loot. Number 1: The Central Bank of Iraq was the target of the world’s most successful robbery on March 18th, 2003. The thieves were none other than the sons of the Iraqi dictator, Saddam Hussein. Qusay and Uday Hussein successfully drove away from the Central Bank of Iraq with truckloads of $100 bills totaling a staggering $1 billion dollars! Time for the question of the day. I’m going to test your morality in this question. You see that it is possible to get away with a heist. So, if you knew in advance that you could rob a bank for $100 million dollars and never ever be caught, would you do it? Where would you go with the money? Go on leave your answer in the comments below. As usual, thanks for watching. If you’re not already subscribed, go ahead and click that subscribe button to see more awesome top 10 clips. We come out with Top 10 videos just for you every week! Be sure to give this clip a thumbs up and go ahead and check out one of our other Top 10 videos you see on the screen now. ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ Voice Over by Christopher Hudspeth Visit Chris at https://www.facebook.com/ChristopherReads Audio Books: http://goo.gl/B05cXR ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ Music by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/