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。 N4 g% |& F- Y7 X
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U.S. judge forces shoplifters to wear 'I am a thief' sign outside store+ m: w* q" }. k3 {6 g1 x( M
/ a' Q5 q0 c3 ]& l 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." . M1 f% d/ e% \6 [Attalla City Judge Kenneth Robertson Jr. ordered the two people to wear the signs for four hours each during two successive Saturdays. + r. |. P/ p$ z4 ]- f"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." $ a+ a) A V5 Q' f' s( S" [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.! o$ T9 @3 K3 d6 m
Fithian maintained her innocence. She said her conviction was based on a misunderstanding: She said she was taking a $7 item to the service desk because it would not scan. 7 s) P" g$ a5 a* P7 P% \ ; I4 o' P* s& n: Y; |! z9 BOutside the store, she said people who saw her wearing the sandwich board commented that the punishment was "cruel."/ i3 G4 J+ s6 [' u6 J' S6 q6 |
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.