Only in Paris

Simon in Ontario sends the following to cheer us up:

Only in Paris

There was a thief in Paris who decided to steal some paintings from the Louvre. After carefully planning the crime, he made it past security, stole the paintings and got back to his van. But, as fate would have it, 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, I had no Monet to buy Degas to make the Van Gogh.”

(And now, do you have DeGaulle to pass this on?)