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。7 M' k! L% z. k% H3 B# N1 |! d* d
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U.S. judge forces shoplifters to wear 'I am a thief' sign outside store7 {; z% K ]- ~% g9 H I
x# f0 F* V6 O# r6 P3 X5 T5 b6 Q 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."+ c- u6 z4 t3 i/ F. L# _$ k
Attalla City Judge Kenneth Robertson Jr. ordered the two people to wear the signs for four hours each during two successive Saturdays.! B1 K* \4 \5 h, q0 A6 B9 B
"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." 0 ~$ H+ D# o* d o. `# O9 L# h% K: POne 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.! T! q( T7 N+ K- I; b6 `
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! q( W5 E3 l ; x8 F( v Q3 y( J4 ~1 UOutside the store, she said people who saw her wearing the sandwich board commented that the punishment was "cruel."1 L% l- W8 I; Q
Hawkins 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.