MORE Australians are playing up abroad, with a record number arrested overseas during the past year.

The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade helped more than 27,800 Australians in difficulty during 2008-09.

More than 1000 Australians were arrested and 295 were convicted, sentenced and imprisoned.

Melbourne woman Annice Smoel, 36, was one of the year's highest-profile cases, making international headlines and risking five years' jail for allegedly stealing a bar mat from a pub on the Thai resort island of Phuket. She was fined $30 and allowed home after pleading guilty...............................

http://www.news.com.au/travel/news/more-au...0-1225814265083

Jeez that were also banned from Pommieland a few centuries back for that sort of behaviour...

Here we go again.

I wonder what the statistics are for other nationalities other than Australians that get in trouble in other countries?

I wonder what the statistics are for other nationalities other than Australians that get in trouble in other countries?

One should read the full article and read it in its context, on a world wide basis, only a very small number of Australian passport holders were imprisioned for criminal offences. Most were for other reasons as the article

states.

They pose a real threat to the rest of the world, running around stealing bar mats.

I guess this thread is relevant to Thailand because:

1) Aussies have been known to travel here

2) They have a fondness for beer mats

3) The Editors of certain media in land of Ozzie are jaded