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。 ) R' N5 }" x1 a6 n & I2 `& A0 j, P, c: ~
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U.S. judge forces shoplifters to wear 'I am a thief' sign outside store4 Y) y4 } P" a N# J. [
/ \5 z5 R+ v. E' B6 Z/ {8 [8 wATTALLA, 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." " D9 b( q$ y( b9 jAttalla City Judge Kenneth Robertson Jr. ordered the two people to wear the signs for four hours each during two successive Saturdays./ ~; @+ \, n4 e( s+ J9 ^: o9 o) o
"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."5 K; T9 m- x, v
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. ; f# i- S7 `# ?Fithian maintained her innocence. She said her conviction was based on a misunderstanding: She said she was taking a $7 item to the service desk because it would not scan.7 ]- G" k* q' z. _) `& ^2 a4 ]
4 j% S0 J* x$ o3 r- j7 X: f8 D2 gOutside the store, she said people who saw her wearing the sandwich board commented that the punishment was "cruel."( `$ n5 s# K9 S% t
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.
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