50-250 thousand pounds sound like a lot of money, but Ocean's team stole[1] something like 150 million dollars about a decade ago, and about a decade before that Hans Gruber's gang tried to steal 640 million dollars.<br><br>With the risk of committing a major crime, and having to share the gains between multiple team members (say, Scott's 4), and needing to "pay" for weeks or likely months of prep work, and purchasing or stealing necesarry equipment, the calculation just doesn't work out.<br><br>[1] Of course, they didn't <b>steal</b> the money. They <b>conned</b> their way to them.