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。* v4 b- w6 x1 d
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U.S. judge forces shoplifters to wear 'I am a thief' sign outside store5 G0 ]) N% J/ h
* L% ` i# H, S( {/ V( S, \ 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." 4 E: H9 w+ O* W6 H* {Attalla City Judge Kenneth Robertson Jr. ordered the two people to wear the signs for four hours each during two successive Saturdays. ' b/ u. d b- P! @"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."/ [ h5 A u: o {, `. M. e) e; @
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. ( p1 q, a" E6 ^9 o; bFithian maintained her innocence. She said her conviction was based on a misunderstanding: She said she was taking a $7 item to the service desk because it would not scan. , @/ l( Z1 x, q/ s1 z ) u% g8 c. R9 ~" `Outside the store, she said people who saw her wearing the sandwich board commented that the punishment was "cruel.": b/ I( Q( b2 T$ G
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.