[国际新闻] 「我是三只手，我偷了沃尔玛的东西」

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46岁的丽莎·金·费席安站在阿拉巴马州阿塔拉市的沃尔玛卖场门口，身上挂着「我是三只手，我偷了沃尔玛的东西」的牌子。她被抓到偷窃一件7美元的商品，法官让她选择坐60天牢，还是在沃尔玛门口挂牌罚站四小时。
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0 h" a/ ^9 e" y! iU.S. judge forces shoplifters to wear 'I am a thief' sign outside store5.35.249.643 v, p  f1 q2 o; n! I& N; T1 w
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ATTALLA, Alabama: Shoppers entering a Wal-Mart Supercenter in Alabama got a reminder not to try anything funny: Two shoplifters stood outside with signs reading "I am a thief, I stole from Wal-Mart.". O6 B6 L* \1 [; y1 ~2 h8 }* D' ]
Attalla City Judge Kenneth Robertson Jr. ordered the two people to wear the signs for four hours each during two successive Saturdays.
1 Z. m. O* u) r6 Y# T9 L: _8 F% x"The only comments we've heard so far have been positive," said store manager Neil Hawkins. "Most of them thought it was a good thing."
5 B0 [; V) p$ JOne of the shoplifters, Lisa King Fithian, 46, wore the sign from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. to avoid a 60-day jail sentence. Another convicted shoplifter was at the store from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m.
9 L/ L. u9 W( [0 l5 ~$ u+ MFithian maintained her innocence. She said her conviction was based on a misunderstanding: She said she was taking a $7 item to the service desk because it would not scan.
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3 u) A3 g% \8 A5 H: aOutside the store, she said people who saw her wearing the sandwich board commented that the punishment was "cruel."
$ e/ |; H; H3 n1 f' q* |5.35.249.64Hawkins noted how embarrassing it would be for the public to see someone who got caught shoplifting. "Maybe they'll think twice about doing it," he said.