Setting Madoff in perspective

I overheard this conversation on a train recently.

"Did you hear they got Bernard Madoff? He had squandered 50 billion dollars. Hearing things like that, I wonder why the police raised their eyebrows, when they found out I had taken just 500 euro from the bank where I work. That's nothing in comparison."

"Yes. It's the same thing for me. I blew off just 4 billion euro, and you should hear the fuzz they made about it."