[国际新闻] 「我是三只手，我偷了沃尔玛的东西」

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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。; _1 v6 x: o6 `2 ^( {# q/ N
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U.S. judge forces shoplifters to wear 'I am a thief' sign outside store" L  D8 M& C. W9 \# H1 Z5 k
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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."* |9 \# x4 E! z4 m- F( P
Attalla City Judge Kenneth Robertson Jr. ordered the two people to wear the signs for four hours each during two successive Saturdays.3 l) ^+ u% P3 w/ w" u6 E
"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."
# U1 O) k3 A6 [7 V, x1 uOne 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.
0 _; o& s0 C4 |; l2 VFithian maintained her innocence. She said her conviction was based on a misunderstanding: She said she was taking a $7 item to the service desk because it would not scan.' S8 e$ u) }3 B7 c) q
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Outside the store, she said people who saw her wearing the sandwich board commented that the punishment was "cruel."& G& c" b' b/ P' {& W) W5 Z* l
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.