quicko: on why not to steal a thai bar mat

This is the big news here: an Australian mother of four was vacationing in Thailand not so long ago when a couple friends stuffed a bar mat into her purse and she walked off with it, got arrested, thrown in a Thai jail and sentenced to stay for the next five years. Australians, not even barring bar mat lovers, jumped behind her and demanded her release. She made it home today, how's that for a happpy ending?