10 Crazy Plans That Actually Worked!

Check out our New Biography Channel:    / biographics   It’s a staple of cheesy action movies and TV shows—a harebrained solution that is so outlandish the protagonists just might pull it off. “It’s just crazy enough to work,” they always say. However, plans that seem wildly implausible, but somehow manage to succeed, don’t only exist in the world of fiction. Below are 10 real-life crazy schemes, plans, and ideas that really were just wacky enough to work… →Subscribe for new videos every day! https://www.youtube.com/user/toptenzn... Help us translate our videos: https://www.youtube.com/timedtext_cs_... - Learn more why you might want to help: https://support.google.com/youtube/an... Find more lists at: http://www.toptenz.net Entertaining and educational top 10 lists from TopTenzNet! Subscribe to our Facebook:   / toptenz   Business inquiries to [email protected] Other TopTenz Videos: Top 10 Weapons of the Near Future    • Top 10 Weapons of the Near Future — TopTen...   Top 10 Amazing Vehicles of the Future    • Video   Text version: http://www.toptenz.net/10-crazy-plans... Coming up: 10. Sweeping up the cash 9. Disguising embassy personnel as a film crew to sneak them out of hostile territory 8. Figuring out how to beat Press Your Luck 7. Dazzling the enemy 6. Using a nonexistent currency to bring inflation under control in Brazil 5. Pretending to be mythical vampires to quell rebellion 4. Escaping from prison… in a helicopter 3. Using lunar gravity, duct tape, and a sock to get astronauts back to Earth alive 2. Holding back the sea 1. Facilitating kidney swaps Source/Further reading:    • VACUUM GANG (Craziest Crimes in History Ep...   http://newsfeed.time.com/2010/09/24/f...    • Video   http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2...    • PRESS YOUR LUCK LEGEND: MICHAEL LARSON   https://priceonomics.com/the-man-who-... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dazzle_... http://www.bbc.com/news/business-2811... https://books.google.com/books?id=TQ3... http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2017/06...    • Video   https://www.nasa.gov/content/members-... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floods_...    • Kidney Transplant Chain | UCLA Kidney Exch...   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kidney_... https://cdn.pixabay.com/photo/2017/01... https://c1.staticflickr.com/6/5810/22... https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi... https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi... https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-JTIuwm7GDA... https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...    • PRESS YOUR LUCK LEGEND: MICHAEL LARSON   https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi... https://i.ytimg.com/vi/OyWAJt0M4A8/hq... https://i.ytimg.com/vi/nzNMCXWCZzQ/hq...