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。 2 V, k$ n+ @! ?3 r 4 q8 w+ }6 _! Z2 u/ @- b7 ] . i; l( T* D1 _4 | QU.S. judge forces shoplifters to wear 'I am a thief' sign outside store / J' N( O+ K, K" @ ( }) c- L% A, P9 I kATTALLA, 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." A: m$ G' W8 ]; S
Attalla City Judge Kenneth Robertson Jr. ordered the two people to wear the signs for four hours each during two successive Saturdays. ( [ N9 ~1 c' x5 X' f d"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." % b9 z7 \: C3 @3 m2 dOne 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. 6 F! e* P# A5 u3 u/ hFithian maintained her innocence. She said her conviction was based on a misunderstanding: She said she was taking a $7 item to the service desk because it would not scan.1 N+ _8 X6 i8 Q" q* V- K6 ^
8 m+ n2 g0 m/ ^ ]- r4 ^Outside the store, she said people who saw her wearing the sandwich board commented that the punishment was "cruel."$ \* V6 C- l& z c3 w8 ?0 e' b
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.