Cameron Lochte

🚨 Top 10 Highway Robberies of All Time! 🚨 (A thread 🧵) 10️⃣ The Flying Highwayman (18th Century) – English rogue William Page evaded capture for years, using disguises to rob travelers along England’s roads. His ability to vanish made him a legend of the criminal underworld. 9️⃣ The Doan Gang (1770s) – A group of outlaw brothers who stole from American revolutionaries, looting gold and silver worth thousands before fleeing to Canada, securing their legacy as Tory loyalist bandits. 8️⃣ Claude Duval (1670s) – The smooth-talking French highwayman known for robbing English nobles with charm. Once, he let a victim go after a dance with his wife, making him one of the classiest thieves in history. 7️⃣ Black Bart (1870s) – The poetic bandit who robbed 28 Wells Fargo stagecoaches across California. He never fired a shot, but he left behind taunting poems—stealing an estimated $50,000 ($1.3M today). 6️⃣ Dick Turpin (1730s) – Infamous English highwayman known for robbing stagecoaches and his (probably fake) legendary ride from London to York. His crime spree ended with his hanging, but the myth lives on. 5️⃣ The Newton Boys (1920s) – America’s most successful train & bank robbers, stealing over $5 million ($80M today) from banks and armored cars across the U.S. and Canada. Unlike most criminals, they avoided killing anyone. 4️⃣ The Northfield Raid (1876) – Jesse James & the gang attempted to rob the First National Bank of Northfield, Minnesota, but faced armed townsfolk instead. Most of the gang was shot or captured, making this heist one of history’s biggest failures. 3️⃣ The Great Train Robbery (1963) – A group of thieves stole £2.6M ($80M today) from a Royal Mail train in England. Their plan? Trick the driver with a fake railway signal, then load up the cash and vanish. Most were later caught, but the loot was never fully recovered. 2️⃣ The Dalton Gang’s Last Job (1892) – The Daltons tried to rob two banks in Coffeyville, Kansas, at the same time—expecting an easy payday. Instead, townspeople armed themselves and gunned them down. Only one survived, proving not every robbery is a success. 1️⃣ COMING UP… The greatest highway robbery of all time. One so brazen, it puts all these to shame… ⬇️ Keep scrolling ⬇️