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。 ( S' u! t* d2 t/ @/ ?! d * v: W/ R: @' H7 }1 ?- E+ ]. @ - K3 b# |4 p* F- G$ L
U.S. judge forces shoplifters to wear 'I am a thief' sign outside store ) Z& e' Y7 b; S* N / ?! X5 N& t1 r& X' [' t7 M 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." h6 y$ [8 B- NAttalla City Judge Kenneth Robertson Jr. ordered the two people to wear the signs for four hours each during two successive Saturdays./ R3 D6 K% `+ T
"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 V u- k. z8 o- GOne 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. ( X9 g% I3 ~4 {0 w8 lFithian 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.0 ?4 I3 f5 ]& ?+ a
2 o2 r* h: P5 T' ^1 O zOutside the store, she said people who saw her wearing the sandwich board commented that the punishment was "cruel." ; e3 g! d: u8 z) M z3 z1 }( y" t# VHawkins 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.