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For those who dare doubt the seriousness of beauty pageants, behold Singapore, in which the entire world of looking pretty has been rocked by scandal.

It seems Ris Low, who had been crowned Miss Singapore World for 2009, has given up her crown under public pressure after it came out that she has a tendency to steal other people's credit cards and then buy herself lingerie with them. Arguably that's better than buying drugs and goes toward a good cause, but the beauty pageant world will not stand for it.

All told, she scammed nearly $6,000 worth of goods, gleaned from seven credit cards taken from patients at the medical clinic at which she worked.

As the Reuters story mentions, not only is she a thief, but apparently she can't properly pronounce "bikini" in English, another of the cardinal sins of the pageant world which demanded swift and decisive justice.