Aussie Mum Jailed

[fezman]

Big news here in Sydney this morning and last night is an Aussie mum has been jailed for four days for stealing a bar mat from the aussie bar in Phuket .

The manager,who is an Aussie was on the TV this morning and says she was also abusive to the cops .He says if she had done the same thing in Oz she would have copped the same treatment .

I think he has not been back for a while ,the most that would happen is that she would be charged with stealing here and been sent home and been given a date to apear in court .

He says he has been getting phone calls from Aussies saying they will bouycott the pub and have called him a pole smoker.

they woman says her friends put the bar mat into her bag as a prank while attending her mums 60th birthday at the bar .

this is from the Tele in Sydney this morning.

Mrs Smoel, who was partying with a group of about 10 friends, claimed two of the women stuffed a bar mat in her handbag as a joke. Thai police charged her with theft and she was locked in a cramped jail cell for three nights. Her passport was confiscated until the case comes to court, which could be at least four months away.

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Mrs Smoel, who feels "scared, helpless and alone", believes she would have been freed immediately had there been a male in the group to facilitate a bribe.

"If there had been a man here to do that for us then that would have been the end of it," she said.

"We offered them money right from the start because we knew that's the way the system works over here."

well maybe they didnt offer enough money ,but it is for sure another great bit of publicity for Thai tourism,and will do wonders for the bar .

on ya boys.

[sbk]

covered here: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/Australian-W...et-t266333.html

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