What is the smartest bank robbery ever?

Hours after St. Patrick's Day festivities wrapped up in Boston on March 18, 1990, two men dressed as police officers knocked on the security entrance side door of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum at 1:24 a.m. "The policy has always been that you don't open that door in the middle of the night for God. read more

It was a third person narrative of a bank robbery in Los Angeles. For reasons beyond the robbers' control, it couldn't materialize but I believe this is the smartest and most daring bank robbery I have heard of. read more

2). The Loomis Fargo Bank Robbery. $17.3 million cash stolen, Charlotte, North Carolina, 1997. The regional cash vault of the Loomis Fargo Bank was robbed by armored car driver David Ghantt. This was the largest robbery ever in US history at the time. read more

1997 was a hard year for Loomis Fargo and Company, with two enormous heists in March and October. In March, in a Florida branch of the bank, armoured car driver Phillip Noel Johnson used brawn instead of brains in overpowering two of his co-workers and making off with about $18 million. read more