It could have been worse—Borat could have set the bag on fire. 

But an Alabama woman featured in the fake Kazakh journalist's hit movie doesn't seem to care that the bag of feces handed to her wasn't aflame. 

At a news conference Thursday in Los Angeles, etiquette teacher Cindy Streit announced that she has filed a complaint with the California Attorney General's Office requesting an investigation into the methods that were used to get her to participate in Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan. 

Apparently no amount of coercion could have secured her participation in such a venture if she had known what it was really all about.  

"I am outraged with his deception—how dare they," she said. "The last laugh will be on Borat, not innocent members of the public." 

Streit told reporters that an L.A.-based company called Springland Films contacted her Birmingham-based business, Etiquette Training Services, to inquire about arranging an etiquette lesson for an "international guest from Belarus Television."  

Apparently Springland failed to tell her this guest sleeps with a donkey in the house and makes out with his sister. Wowee-wowee. 

Clips of Borat's dinner with Streit and a group of her friends are prominently featured in the film, starring British comedian/genius/nuisance (depending on whom you ask these days) Sacha Baron Cohen as the perpetually uncouth title character. 

Streit recalled that the dinner party was going well…and then Borat excused himself to go to the bathroom. 

"I had taught him to excuse himself," she told the Associated Press. "He did that correctly and went upstairs. The next thing that happened is that he came down the stairs holding this plastic bag with whatever was in it. 

"My horror was that he had brought a bag of feces to my dinner table." 

And that about did it for the dessert course. 

Streit's attorney, Gloria Allred, said that her client received written confirmation from Springland (the AP reported that it couldn't locate a company by that name) that the footage would be used "as part of a documentary for Belarus Television and for those purposes only." 

While she said that she hasn't ruled out a lawsuit, Streit claimed that she wants the matter investigated first, in hopes that she can set an example that would make studios think twice before letting their talent run amok like that. 

"Cindy wants to protect others from becoming victims of those who would use deceptive business practices in order to make a profit at their expense," Allred said. 

And it's been quite a profit so far. As of Wednesday, the R-rated mockumentary had grossed nearly $74.2 million in the U.S.  

Streit has joined a fight that's already being waged by two South Carolina college students who have filed suit against 20th Century Fox and Cohen, alleging that they were plied with liquor by Borat's producers and goaded into behaving in ways "that they otherwise would not have engaged in." 

In the film, the plaintiffs, who referred to themselves as John Does 1 and 2 in their complaint, joined Borat for an evening of drinking and a viewing of the Tommy Lee/Pamela Anderson sex tape. And the Chi Psi fraternity brothers also happened to complain at one point that minorities have all the power. 

Because of how they come off in the movie, the guys stated in their lawsuit, they have suffered humiliation, mental anguish and emotional and mental distress. 

Meanwhile, residents of the Romanian village that stands in for Kazakhstan in Borat are threatening to sue Cohen and 20th Century Fox for making them look like illiterate, rape-happy heathens.

The villagers also claim that they were tricked into signing release forms, thinking they were being filmed for a documentary that would draw attention to their poverty-stricken lifestyle.

 "We endured it because we are poor and badly needed the money, but now we realize we were cheated and taken advantage of in the worst way," Gheorge Luca, whose home was used for Borat's residence, told Britain's Daily Mail.  

Cohen, meanwhile, maintains that he isn't trying to convince people that Kazakhstan is an anti-Semitic, culturally backward country.  

In an interview featured in Rolling Stone's Nov. 30 issue, Cohen says that he has been surprised by people who think he's spouting his true opinion of the former Soviet republic. And he's also pretty dumbfounded by those who think that he and his movie are anti-Semitic, anti-gay or misogynistic.  

What Cohen is really doing, in fact, is drawing attention to prejudice in general, as evidenced by the man in the film who answers with a straight face when Borat asks him what type of gun is best for shooting Jews. 

"I always had faith in the audience that they would realize that this was a fictitious country and the mere purpose of it was to allow people to bring out their own prejudices," the Cambridge-educated comedian told the magazine, speaking as himself, rather than as Borat, for a change. 

"I think the joke is on people who can believe that the Kazakhstan that I describe can exist—who believe that there's a country where homosexuals wear blue and the women live in cages and they drink fermented horse urine and the age of consent has been raised to nine years old.

"I think part of the movie shows the absurdity of holding any form of racial prejudice, whether it's hatred of African-Americans or of Jews."