Notso Fantastic
You're absolutely right; pilots by the very nature of the profession are "risk managers". To steal off the aircraft is not worth the risk for pilots. Granted that some F/A's and ground personnel think differently, because they have less to lose or whatever.
Most of the folks on this thread have no idea what's it like to be on a L/O; it's one of those things that you have to experience yourself. Perhaps if they did they wouldn’t be so quick to rush to judgment...