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。 # N- ^6 U& M4 _1 G s( B) I % S* t- N% D( ^6 v2 v7 z( O) W8 | 6 p l, t0 q3 C( T/ [
U.S. judge forces shoplifters to wear 'I am a thief' sign outside store% a; x& y% i9 ?7 N5 x7 `
. [# `4 ]; ?4 ] 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." ( A5 T6 R! v0 C$ l: r. j9 e& }Attalla City Judge Kenneth Robertson Jr. ordered the two people to wear the signs for four hours each during two successive Saturdays. . P: ]$ U0 T( q* X6 R/ A"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." 9 R6 @& d" N' [$ ^, z0 n% R( EOne 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.+ x& @% P) U. C! R
Fithian maintained her innocence. She said her conviction was based on a misunderstanding: She said she was taking a $7 item to the service desk because it would not scan. v/ X7 b& ~; v0 u+ O . E8 A8 Y1 A$ m6 ~5 f; o
Outside the store, she said people who saw her wearing the sandwich board commented that the punishment was "cruel."0 {' c. H) n4 j& N
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.
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