A cultural faux pas, and Raffy Palmeiro

In the U.S. there's a common, free newspaper called Auto Trader (and Boat Trader, etc.) where people advertise their cars for sale. Hypothetically speaking, say that you were in a foreign country like, oh, I don't know, New Zealand, and you're looking to buy a car. In this thought experiment, you're at a "dairy" (NZ's equivalent of a convenience store), and you see a very similar newspaper called Auto Exchange. "Great," you think, "I'll pick one up!" In this story, you pick one up after buying your ordinary goods at the dairy. The clerk looks at you kind of funny, but you leave the store happy to have found a new resource.

Fast forward one week. You haven't yet bought a car, so you go to get this week's Auto Exchange. You go back to the same dairy and pick one up. But this time you notice that the cover loudly says "$3.00". You hadn't noticed that the first time, when you just took it and left the store. You immediately panic at the realisation that a week ago you inadvertently stole a newspaper, you drop the current issue, and run out of the store as fast as possible.

Like Rafael Palmeiro and steriods, you can claim that you didn't "knowingly or intentionally" do anything wrong. Unlike Raffy, you can say this sincerely. You'd probably feel somewhat consoled by that fact...not that I'd know personally or anything.