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。" J; {! O" d! }( r- E
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U.S. judge forces shoplifters to wear 'I am a thief' sign outside store; F4 K. h9 |+ P3 h
2 l* ^, ^% o- k) q @; |# LATTALLA, 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." ) [' H& c6 ~3 k1 rAttalla City Judge Kenneth Robertson Jr. ordered the two people to wear the signs for four hours each during two successive Saturdays. 3 `+ v# {, j5 v. {; u) k1 @2 f"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."- F; d9 k+ @9 H. R/ |
One 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., n' A0 \3 \* B# Q% a5 ~4 l
Fithian 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.( w' Y9 L0 Y8 g) H' ~- [
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Outside the store, she said people who saw her wearing the sandwich board commented that the punishment was "cruel." 7 {; x4 M& O! M9 A+ t& DHawkins 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.
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