At some point in your life, you've probably contemplated just picking up and leaving, packing up all your crap and heading off to some exotic foreign country with a gorgeous beach where Mai Tai's only cost the equivalent of one American dollar. You know, someplace like Thailand!

Until you remembered that, in the Summer months, it's something like 100 degrees in the shade in Phuket, you already forgot the Thai word for "tampon" and Mai Tai's actually kind of suck.

All of which effectively ended your unproductive daydreaming and (brief) love affair with Thailand—that is, until you read about the acting chief of the Crime Suppression Division in Bangkok's latest initiative to keep his troops in line: Hello Kitty armbands.

Reports CNN:

Police officers caught littering, parking in a prohibited area, or arriving late — among other misdemeanors — will be forced to stay in the division office and wear the armband all day, said Police Col. Pongpat Chayaphan.

Why? you might ask. Because, according to Pongpat, "simple warnings no longer work. This new twist is expected to make them feel guilt and shame and prevent them from repeating the offense, no matter how minor." And, of course, because "(Hello) Kitty is a cute icon for young girls. It's not something macho police officers want covering their biceps."

Are you hearing this, Mayor Bloomberg? Who would have guessed that, all this time, the true secret to crime prevention could be found in that annoying Sanrio lunchbox your baby sister is always carrying around.

Meanwhile, this kind of makes us want to go back to Thailand again. Because the only greater than snorkeling around Phi Phi Le (also known as "James Bond Island" for the 007 film, The Man with the Golden Gun) is the idea of seeing a couple of Bangkok's finest wearing the Hello Kitty armband of shame.